James Outman’s successful start to the season helps me forget about the Dodgers’ problems. Coming into the season, the Dodgers were entering the new year with a significantly different team from the previous year.  Veterans like Justin Turner and Cody Bellinger left the team and signed elsewhere. The front office had a remarkably quiet off-season. During which they signed a …

Defense wins championships. I speak from experience. My first season as a high school girls soccer coach ended after losing the championship game 6-1. The team’s star defender took a college trip to Harvard for a student’s conference and had to miss the game. Her absence was missed. Defense wins championships.  Andrew Freidman decided to have a calm offseason 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 …

The first hurdle in this year’s National League Divisional Series will be the winner of a wild card game consisting of teams they have eliminated recently in the playoffs. Now is the time the front office, Dave Roberts and his team of coaches, will strategically put together their best roster when they kick off their 2019 postseason. So, who is …

After wrapping up their seventh consecutive NL West crown, the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated. It was a subdued one, but a celebration nonetheless. It’s a sense of accomplishment, a 162-game grind while coming out on top in your respective division. It is certainly worth popping bottles and the champagne shower that only six division-winning teams get to share at some …

What happens when your biggest free agent signing of the offseason, A.J. Pollock, is set to come back from the Injured List, and you have another outfielder who just slugged his 20th home run of the season, who is a straight platoon in the outfield? You find the basher another glove and a new position to play. Last night, Joc …

Zero. That’s how many players in the Los Angeles Dodgers lineup who were obtained by a free agent, major league contract. This week the MLB first-year eligible player draft kicked off and the Baltimore Orioles had the first pick. This led me to look at the Dodgers current roster and see how many players were obtained via the draft. The …

The Dodgers became the first team to 20 wins this season when they knocked off the San Francisco Giants in a blowout Tuesday night. That is not a stat to just brush aside. The last three World Series winners, the Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, and Boston Red Sox, all were the first to 20 wins in the majors. The Dodgers …

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 …

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 …