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No, this post is not about Eliot Ness and his bunch, it is about baseball records that probably will never be surpassed. Records are made to be broken. No one ever thought Ruth’s 60 homers would be topped. Yet in 1961, 13 years after the Bambino died, Roger Maris did just that…
Congratulations to Venezuela for doing the unthinkable and winning the 2026 WBC. It’s an incredible feat. They were simply too legit to quit. Roki Sasaki did what I thought he would do: Pitch lights out for a while and then get lit up because of a lack of control and eroding…
I have been sick for a couple of days. I had a bug, but some of it was A-Fib. I am going to have another cardioversion shortly (just waiting for the call). My cardiologist is a friend, so he usually gets me in quickly. It’s always good for old guys to have a cardiologist as a…
James Tibbs III seems to have improved since joining the Dodgers. He changed his leg kick from being a “timing mechanism” to being a “metronome tap.” When he came to the Dodgers, they knew his swing did not need to be overhauled, like Justin Turner’s. The Dodgers reportedly…
Sunday, the 2nd of October 1966. The Dodgers were playing a double header in Philadelphia. When the day started, LA was 1.5 games ahead of the Giants. If the Dodgers lost both games and the Giants beat the Pirates, they would finish in a dead heat and there would be a playoff…
The grass is riz. I wonder where the flowers is ? Baseball America just published a piece titled: “ One Intriguing 2026 Spring Training Performance For Each MLB Team. ” In it, they featured River Ryan as the Dodgers’ “Intriguing Player.” In part, they wrote: “The big question…
The Dodgers slugged 244 homers last season, led by Ohtani’s 55. That was 20 more than the second highest, the Mets had. The Mets lost a major power source with Alonso leaving in free agency for Baltimore. LA replaced the 12 homers hit by Michael Conforto with Kyle Tucker, who…
The Dodgers optioned OF Ryan Ward and LHP Ronan Kopp to Triple-A Oklahoma City, and sent pitchers Carlos Duran , Carson Hobbs , Garrett McDaniels , J ackson Ferris, Wyatt Mills , Jordan Weems , and Lucas Wepf, catcher Griffin Lockwood-Powell, and OFs Josue De Paula and Kendall…
The Dodgers’ roster right now looks a little less like a youth movement and a little more like a high school reunion where everyone keeps saying, “Wow… has it really been 15 years?” For the record, I don’t dislike Alex Call or Santiago Espinal. Not at all. Both are perfectly…
Spring Training is baseball’s annual mirage season . A few weeks in Arizona or Florida and suddenly a utility infielder is Babe Ruth, a 29-year-old minor leaguer looks like the next MVP, and fans begin carving statues before Opening Day. Then… the roster comes out and that hero…
The annual Top-30 Dodgers Prospect List is baseball’s version of opening a crate of fireworks. Some rockets soar, some spin sideways into the neighbor’s yard, and one explodes so gloriously that the entire league asks, “Where did that come from?” Here is the completely rational…
Baseball fans are a unique group. Every February, somewhere in Arizona or Florida, a perfectly rational adult watches a 32 year old utility infielder line a double off a pitcher who will be selling insurance by July… and immediately declares, with the confidence of a Supreme…
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