It has been about 20 years that LA Dodger Talk has been a big part of my life. Good Times. Bad Times. All the Times. I have met some great people. I have had a lot of fun. This was the year it was all supposed to come together and win it all, but what a strange time we live in. This is not the place or time to go…
I thought it might be fun to look back to 2017 and what Keith Law had to say about some Former Dodger Players. I like Keith Law a lot. He has a lot of insight into prospects… but he is not perfect. If he was, someone would be paying him $50 million dollars a year. Jose De Leon Born in Puerto Rico but drafted in the 24th round out of…
We have all seen statistical models of how this current pandemic is supposed to go. But, just like in sports, the computer-generated models are just that. The game is played by people… people who are capable of some really good or really bad things. So, I will not even speculate on what will happen. I learned a long time ago to control what I can control and quit worrying about…
About a month ago, my 20-year-old (Stephen) son made a quick trip to NYC to rescue my 33-year-old son (Nick) and his two cats (Tango and Cash) from COVID-19 infested NYC. I let him take my Raptor F-150 (450 HP) and he made the round trip in 26 hours. No tickets that I know of! Steve is the model citizen and VP of sales for our company, while Nick was…
I think that this is an amazing community, however, these are trying times. I have instructed my family to notify you if anything bad happens to me. Only the good die young, so I will be OK
Baseball season might be two months away… if ever. If AC, DC, Evan, and 2D2 want to continue to write, I’ll continue to support that. However, I am going to back off the day-to-day stuff until I see a clear plan to the start of the season. I’ll probably post at least once a day, but I have some other stuff I have to do during this crazy period of…
There’s not much to do with the MLB season on hold, the NBA season on hold, the NCAA Tournament canceled, High School Tournaments in limbo, schools closed, and restaurants and theaters are persona non-Grotta. My youngest son and I spent the day plumbing his house, the house he has had since he was 18 (he’s almost 21 now) and has totally gutted and rebuilt it. It was built in 1900…
It’s not possible to address ANYTHING about the coronavirus without getting political and I won’t even explain that. We simply are not going to go there. PERIOD! This country has never been more divided politically than right about now and we are all here for Dodger baseball, so that is all we will talk about: the one thing that unites us. That thing has been put on hold and we…
For years, Dodgers blogs have been a sacred place where Dodger fans went to lament their fate, cry in their beer, pontificate how bad the team, coaches, managers, general managers, and owners were, and generally write about how they could do a better job than whoever happened to be in charge. When Andrew Friedman was hired by the Dodgers as President of Baseball Operations, he was greeted with jeers, smears,…
KayBear Ruiz was signed at the tender age of 16 for $140,000 on his birthday, July 20, 2014. In 2015, he hit .300 for the Dominican Dodgers at age 16. In 2016, he split time between Ogden and Arizona, hitting a combined .374 with a .412 OB%. He was still just 17. Before the 2017 season, and still just 18 years old, Ruiz was named the #20 prospect in the…