We are less than two weeks until pitchers and catchers report, and there is a lot to unpack, and still possible transactions – can you say, Mookie Betts? – to be made. This time last year, Bryce Harper was playing the long game and still not close to sniffing the pine tar. Looking at the landscape of the league, and …
We are almost 10 days into the new year, and one of the highest-profile free agents is still available in Josh Donaldson. Multiple teams have expressed interest, the Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves, and the World Series champion Washington Nationals, are all in on him. As are the Los Angeles Dodgers, but to what extent? Last year, the biggest free agents …
While in the shower, where I get all my thinking done on what to fill my column each week, a few days after the Washington Nationals ended the Los Angeles Dodgers season, I made a realization I haven’t seen or read anywhere. It’s not that the Dodgers’ ultimate goal of winning the World Series has not been successful, well, it’s …
The Dodgers absolutely had to have Bryce Harper, who is currently leading the league in only one category – strikeouts, in right field, right? Apparently, the front office got it right and the fans got it wrong, because holy cow, do the Los Angeles Dodgers have a right fielder! Through the first third of the season, Cody Bellinger leads or …
The Los Angeles Dodgers haven’t had a true, positional superstar player in quite some time. Manny Machado doesn’t qualify, neither does Manny Ramirez. Clearly, Clayton Kershaw was, maybe still is, a superstar pitcher and Walker Buehler is trying to get there. Adrian Beltre had a monster year in his last year as a Dodger but it wasn’t sustained, as he …
A long, or short, depending on what team you follow, offseason has passed us and that spring feeling is back. Baseball is back. The Los Angeles Dodgers were expected to make moves this offseason, but not just any moves. BIG moves. Those big move never came, unless you count A.J. Pollock a big move. Manny Machado is playing in Dodgers …
Spring Training has been going strong for over two weeks now, yet the return of actual baseball being played, has seemed to be playing second fiddle to what’s happening with Bryce Harper. The yo-yoing of all the reports by those in media, have made the storyline quite unbearable for most fans, and certainly frustrating if you are Philadelphia Phillies, San …
“Pitchers and catchers report.” Last week, all of Major League Baseball reported for duty for the 2019 season. It wasn’t until this past Tuesday that the action really started getting interesting. Not from the arid climate of the Arizona desert, or even from the Sunshine State of Florida. Instead, it came from Dodgers Stadium South, also known as San Diego. …
Let’s take a break from what has become the status quo of a lack in the signing of impactful free agents. There’s a guy, Manny Machado, who hasn’t signed, and the other guy, Bryce Harper, is also still unemployed. No one knows when that is going to change. However, there is an old, but also, new, issue we can all …
Since Andrew Friedman, and this front office, as well as ownership, took the reins in Los Angeles, one of the things they wanted to be was “flexible.” Flexible in contracts, in personnel, in players, in draft picks, and how they acquire new players via trade or draft. While the on the field success has delivered the first back to back …
