The Bryce Harper melodrama finally came to an end when the superstar outfielder inked a record breaking 13-year 330 million dollar deal (my god baseball badly needs a hard salary cap), with the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday afternoon. The Dodgers and Giants were also reportedly still in the mix but
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It’s almost a foregone conclusion that when Dodgers spring training camp in Glendale Arizona open that at least one or two guys will get hurt, be sore, or not report on time. Baseball imitates life. It’s the chaos theory proven at Camelback Ranch. Murphy’s law my friends. So when reports
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The La Times had an interesting article about the Dodgers spending habits and the luxury tax. After seeing how Andrew Friedman operates over the last four years we can make a judgment on how he runs one of the largest market and richest baseball clubs in the world. The Los Angeles
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I didn’t want to have to do this but upon request from many posters it looks like I will. We will be finally laying out posting guidelines for LADR. For the record I was hoping that everyone could act like adults and police their own posting behaviors. But apparently that
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Dodger spring training is well underway with all of the players already reported and accounted for. All of the Dodgers are present except for outfielder Andrew Toles. The Dodgers recently announced that Toles would not be arriving to Glendale because of some kind of personal matter. Reports indicate that nobody
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With spring training camps opening this week, pitchers and catchers are reporting as the start of the 2019 season gets underway. For the Dodgers we're getting our first glimpse of the 2019 roster. Now that the winter of our discontent has come to an end we can focus on piecing
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The Dodgers spring training starts next week and I have been so busy with other things that I haven’t been giving too much attention. Camps open (pitchers and catchers report) on Tuesday and the first workouts begin on Wednesday. The rest of the players report on the eighteenth. The first
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If you don’t know how Andrew Friedman works by now, then I might not be able to help you. I mean I’ll still try and help you, but you’ll end up feeling lost and frustrated by the results. That’s how the Dodgers offseason has felt thus far, but I digress. The
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The last day of January is a special day for Dodger fans and humanity in general as it is Jackie Robinson’s birthday. He would be turning 100 today if he were still with us. The legendary Dodger hall of famer and civil rights pioneer will be honored throughout the day. There
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If we’re going to be so publicly critical of Andrew Friedman when he makes mistakes, (and he’s made many) then we should be just as publicly positive when he does something well. I think the A.J. Pollock signing was a good acquisition. Surely I would have rather had Bryce Harper,
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We've been hearing these rumors for a while now, but it's finally official. The Dodgers are signing outfielder A.J. Pollock. The club has yet to officially announce the deal and it's pending a physical. But it appears that the Dodgers are adding the veteran right handed hitting outfielder on a
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I was listening to the radio the other day, and the topic of conversation was the Dodgers. More specifically about the 2018 World Series, and even more specifically game 4 of the 2018 World Series. I’m sure you all remember the horrible outcome of that game. That was the game
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The latest Dodgers news this week has the club rumored to be discussing trades involving lefty swinging outfielder Joc Pederson. Apparently they’ve had talks with the White Sox, and the Braves might be interested as well. According to reports the Dodgers are trying to sign right handed hitting outfielder A.J.
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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers today announced the coaching staffs for their minor league affiliates for the 2019 season: Triple-A Oklahoma City Season with Dodger Organization (as coach) Manager – Travis Barbary 25th Pitching Coach – Bill Simas 9th Hitting Coach – Scott Coolbaugh 1st Coach – Jeremy Rodriguez 3rd Double-A Tulsa Manager
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There currently are no rumors of the Dodgers being connected to Marwin Gonzalez, but perhaps there should be. As a matter of fact, Gonzalez is one of the more versatile consistent players on the open market. Gonzalez, who has played the last several years in Houston, is a 29-year old
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After the Dodgers acquired former catcher Russell Martin from the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday afternoon many Dodger fans and media members pontificated that trading for Martin could possibly be part of something bigger. That maybe the Dodgers would include Martin in another trade for say JT Realmuto. Well I
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