Last year the Dodgers were the worst team in baseball against left handed pitching. So management decided to sit almost every one of their regulars when a southpaw was on the mound. The lineups they put out on those days consisted of most of their bench players and backups. Utility
Read More
We’re getting later into the season and the trade deadline fury will be upon us sooner than we think. The pitching market is already starting to develop and as you would have thought the Dodgers will likely be major players in such potential dealing. Don’t get me wrong here, the
Read More
2017 has been a tale of two seasons so far for the LA Dodgers. Overall, the return in a long stretch of divisional games is poor. Having won the National League Western Division for the past four years, expectations were high. Results suggest that complacency was as well. 33 games so
Read More
Don't get me wrong, I'm usually a cheerleader for Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, but not tonight. In this first game of a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals, the skipper messed up big time. He made two ridiculous - and monumental - decisions that cost the Dodgers a nine-inning
Read More
The Dodgers begin a three game set with the Cardinals on Tuesday afternoon. The pitching match-up for the first game will have Lance Lynn battling Clayton Kershaw. Mike Leake will take on Rich Hill in the second game, and Michael Wacha is scheduled to counter Kenta Maeda who will be
Read More
If the internet and Twitter were running things, Joc Pederson would be taking his at bats in the Show Me state, and Adrian Gonzalez would be literally delivering butter and eggs to a supermarket near you. They've both been mired in season-long slumps. Young Joc had a wonderful Opening Day with
Read More
Brilliant is the word used to describe the Dodger’s signing of Brandon McCarthy by some pundits and analysts. Moneyball fan boys and protectors of Andrew Friedman’s wallets hailed the move as genius. The Dodgers had signed McCarthy to a 4-year 48 million dollar contract during the winter of 2014 and
Read More
They say when a door closes, a window opens. Yesterday the stoic Butter and Eggs Man, Adrian Gonzalez, stepped off the field and on the disabled list for the first time in his career. However, fans of Gonzalez weren't too sad for too long, because Cody Bellinger stepped right into place
Read More
I thought it was pretty hilarious when Oscar called Adrian Gonzalez a file cabinet. Well the Dodgers finally placed the file cabinet on the disabled list as they activated Joc Pederson from the 10-day disabled list before their three game series in San Diego. Of course it’s important to remember that
Read More
We all know it. We can all see it. I know the Dodgers can see it. After going 0 for 4 at the plate and failing to stop a ball that sparked San Francisco's winning rally last night, I think Adrian can see it himself, as well. The writing is on
Read More
The Dodgers optioned Scott Van Slyke to make room for fellow outfielder Franklin Gutierrez who was activated from the disabled list on Tuesday afternoon. Gutierrez was battling a hamstring injury and the Dodgers needed roster space. So they bid adieu to Van Slyke. The move definitely made sense. As I
Read More
The 2017 season is about a month old and so far it’s been one long month of suck for the Dodgers. The club is now 10-12 after losing to the Giants on Wednesday night in extra innings and have yet to win their second series of the season. Let me
Read More
You know a lot of people believe that I hate the front office and that I am anti analytics, which couldn’t be further from the truth. I am not anti-data as much as I am not anti-front office. I just happen to be pro-common sense and I think much of
Read More
I know many of you will read the title of this article and laugh. Some of you will get angry with me. The people who will get angry will think it is ridiculous, so allow me to explain the reasoning. As I write this the Dodgers are currently losing to
Read More
It's that time of year again. The Dodgers have packed up and left their Arizona Spring Training facilities, Opening Day is right around the corner, and we all have a little down time before the Freeway Series with that team which thinks Los Angeles is in the heart of Orange
Read More
You know the Dodgers love a good reclamation project. They just can’t resist it; much like the guys on storage wars can’t resist buying storage lockers. The Dodgers recently signed right hander Justin Masterson to a minor league deal. Before we get into the Dodger’s obsession with injury riddled experiments
Read More