The Dodgers are without a starting catcher right now after Yasmani Grandal declined the 17.9 million dollar qualifying offer from the Dodgers in order to test the free agent market. That makes Grandal an unrestricted free agent and the Dodgers a restricted team without a primary backstop. This is a
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It’s no secret that the Dodgers had bullpen problems in 2018. The Dodgers restructured their bullpen late in the season but relief pitching was still an issue even in the postseason. The Dodgers could certainly use some help in this area for 2019. Looking at the free agent market this
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The Dodgers offered qualifying offers to two of their free agents this winter. Left handed starter Hyun-jin Ryu was one of them. The other was catcher Yasmani Grandal. While it is expected that Grandal will reject the offer to test the free agent market, reports are indicating that Ryu will
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The Dodgers have a lot of work to do this winter. They need a new general manager, new hitting coach, new third base coach, a new second baseman and possibly a new catcher. Their laundry list of needs seems to grow bigger each day. That’s a big holiday shopping list.
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The Dodgers extended the 17.9 million dollar qualifying offer to catcher Yasmani Grandal, but it’s expected that he is going to decline. Doing so would make the Dodger backstop an unrestricted free agent. We don’t know if the Dodgers would resign him. If the Dodgers don’t resign Grandal and he
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The Dodgers just lost the World Series less than two weeks ago, but some of the oddsmakers already have them favored to win it all in 2019. Sure the Dodgers need a new general manager, hitting coach, third base coach, and possibly a starting catcher, but they are one of
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The 2019 Dodgers could look very different than the 2018 version. If anything, the Dodgers will have some vacancies not only on their coaching staff, but possibly in their front office as well. Despite this, and the Dodgers losing the World Series for the second consecutive season, an extension with
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One of the Dodgers biggest needs coming into the winter is of course second base. The Dodgers started the 2018 season with Logan Forsythe tabbed to be their everyday man at the keystone. Unfortunately Logan was terrible and the Dodgers eventually traded him to the Twins for Brian Dozier who
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The biggest news of the Dodger’s offseason has of course been the recent Clayton Kershaw extension. We’re all super relieved that Kershaw is staying in Los Angeles. But that isn’t the only piece of news coming out of Dodger Stadium this winter. The Dodgers have issued qualifying offers to two
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The Dodgers announced that they had pushed the deadline on the decision of whether to exercise David Freese’s option to Friday afternoon which is the same thing they did with Clayton Kershaw’s opt-out. Now we know why. The club announced that they have signed David Freese to a 4.5 million
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As all Hallows eve descends upon us I am reminded that the Dodgers have played only once on Halloween. During last year’s World Series the boys in blue took on the Houston Astros in game 6 of the World Series. That was the only the sixth time in MLB history that
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It’s been almost 24 hours since the Dodgers lost the World Series in five games to the Boston Red Sox. Having time to reflect on the Dodger’s 2018 season has made me realize just how incredible it really was. The World Series loss was painful. Losing the World Series for
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The Dodgers made history on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium in their pitiful 5-1 game 5 loss to the Boston Red Sox. No not the kind of history that the Red Sox made as they clinched their fourth World Series championship since 2004. The Dodgers made history by losing their
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The Dodgers were on the verge of winning game 4 of the World Series on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. The victory would have tied the series and given them an edge with Clayton Kershaw scheduled to start game five and three games remaining in the fall classic. Everything was setup
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The Dodgers lost game two of the World Series to the Red Sox 4-2 on Wednesday night at Fenway Park. It was certainly a demoralizing defeat as the Dodgers come home mired in an 0-2 series hole. Being down 2-0 in the World Series isn’t an insurmountable deficit but the Dodgers
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We can make excuses for the Dodgers all night long if we like. You can blame the Dodgers losing the first two games of the World Series on the frigid Boston weather. You can blame the Dodgers losing on the fact that most of the players have never played at
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