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The longer this off-season goes, the hungrier I get for Spring Training. The inane asking prices that some of today’s free agents are asking for is getting out of control. I believe in the free market as much as anyone, but sometimes a little self-restraint needs to be implemented…on both sides. The pendulum always swings both ways, and for way too many years the owners had all of the control
Two words sum it up: Scott Boras, whose photo is to the right. I m not trying to say anything bad about him, but . it s all his fault. See, Scott Boras has some of the best free agents in baseball in his stable and there are two major factors: Boras is asking the moon for some of his clients; and He has swindled many a GM in the past. It is
Yes, I did when it was announced that he was buying the Dodgers from a Fortune 500 Company who ran them like a drunken sailor runs on the deck of a ship in a hurricane. See, FOX had no clue they even traded away Mike Piazza among many other blunders too numerous and painful to count. I was excited to see the Dodger bought by a little guy who
On InsideSocal.com, J.P. Hoornstra wrote a blog on December 30, 2017 about O Koyea Dickson going to Japan. I took me until today to read it because J.P. seldom posts there the last time he posted was on July 23, 2017, where he wrote about Clayton Kershaw Leaving the Game With a Back Injury. So, him writing a post there was an actual event. When I saw the post entitled: Headed for
By now it s old news that the Dodgers were named the Organization of the Year in 2017 by Baseball America. If we go back in time to when Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi took over the Dodgers three years ago, the Farm System was ranked number 14 in all of baseball by Baseball America. In one short year, FAZ elevated that ranking to #3 and in 2016, they were ranked
Tickets For All Spring Training Games At Camelback Ranch-Glendale Available Online Or By Phone LOS ANGELES – Camelback Ranch-Glendale (CR-G), celebrating its 10th year as the spring home of the defending National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox, announces single-game tickets for 2018 go on sale online and by phone at 10 a.m. MST on Friday, January 5. To order single-game tickets online, visit dodgers.com/spring, whitesox.com/spring or
The Hot Stove is Cold We are all going stir-crazy! OK, let s get really crazy: The Dodgers trade Matt Kemp, Pedro Baez and Clayton Kershaw to Texas for Cole Hamels and Jose Leclerc. That frees up $35 million in 2018. Next, they sign Yu Darvish as a Free Agent and trade Yadier Alvarez, Yusneil Diaz, Jordon Sheffield and Kenta Maeda to Pittsburgh for Andrew McCutchen and Gerrit Cole. Rotation: Hamels
There has been a lot of discussion about the Dodgers needing a LH hitting 2B this offseason. Okay maybe I have been the one talking about it. I have recommended the Dodgers look at Jace Peterson as the potential LH hitting 2B even without ever hearing one report that FAZ was interested. Yangervis Solarte and Erick Aybar are others that have at least drawn some attention. But my attention has
The past three years have gotten progressively better. 2018 is the Jewel! Happy New Dodger Year Everyone!
A year ago, Dodger fans were wondering whether Adrian Gonzalez had anything left. I stated that if he didn t, the Dodgers had an option at 1B who was ready to take over one Cody Bellinger. I had watched Cody and Corey Seager progress and grow through the ranks of the Dodger farm teams, and I knew he was ready. I have only been that sure with two other current
If you have not checked out www.TheAtheletic.com (it s a pay site), you should. It s got some great writing. As an example, Peter Gammons wrote a great piece yesterday: Want a parade? The surest way to get one is to rebuild the right way. Here’s how it’s done I can t reproduce the whole article here, because of the paid content, but Gammons starts here: When baseball unraveled the draft and international
What’s happening to this year’s crop of free agents? This is December 27, and out of the top 50 MLB TradeRumors free agent predictions, only 19 have signed new contracts, and one decided not to opt out (Masahiro Tanaka). Of the 30 unsigned players, none of the top 11 have signed new contracts (excluding Tanaka not opting out), and 15 of the top 20 are still unsigned. Of the
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