The Hot Stove is Roaring!

December 9, 2024

The Mets had to sign Juan Soto to be the face of the franchise and Steve Cohen delivered. The Yankees have Aaron Judge. The Mets have to have “star power” to be relevant in NYC. Steve Cohen delivered… boy did he! MLBTR said it this way: MLB contract records were shattered Sunday evening, as the Mets reached an agreement on a stunning 15-year, $765MM deal with free agent superstar Juan Soto,…

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Dodgers Top 52 Prospects

December 8, 2024

For a few days now, I have been working on my top Dodger prospect list for 2025 and I currently have 52 players on the list. Frnkly, when you get past 15 or 20, you can just shake them up and put them wherever. This is a work in progress, so I may post this a few more times until it get to the final iteration. There will be a…

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My Dodgers’ Top Prospect: SS Alex Freeland

December 6, 2024

Alex Freeland will be 24 in August of 2025 and over the past two season he has went from being a suspect to becoming a bona-fide prospect. I am not going to go on-and-on about his “grit” and work ethic and the adversity he has faced in his life after being born with a club foot. Twenty years ago, the question was: will Alex walk? … and that was a…

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Let’s Make a Deal

December 5, 2024

There is talk of the Dodgers acquiriong Juan Soto, Blake Treinen, Teoscar Hernandez, Willy Adames… and others, but maybe we need to look at the trade market. I am not advocating this… just giving you some options. Let’s start this exercise with the premise that Mookie Betts is going to play 2B and Tommy Edman is going to man SS. That makes Gavin Lux expendable and so today I am…

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2024 Championship Picture

December 3, 2024

I ordered this World Series Championship Wall Hanging several weeks ago and then I had to get it framed. Notice the subtile Blue Effects on the wood frame? I hung it in a place I was saving it for beside my desk. Well, the Dodgers are allegedly still in the bidding for Juan Soto and have made an offer of at least $600 Million for him! They have signed another…

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The Golden At-Bat: Another Trick Pony?

December 3, 2024

I woke up this morning to an article in my inbox about “The Golden At Bat” which is this: “A manager can use one Golden At-Bat per game to slot their preferred batter into the order for a single at-bat. I’m in the on-deck circle with the bases loaded, and Juan Soto is on the bench. So you simply send Soto to the plate instead of me.“ The Athletic goes…

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Wyatt Crowell… Another LH Prospect

December 1, 2024

Wyatt Crowell was born on October 13, 2001, in Cumming, Georgia… AN AREA I HAPEN TO LOVE A LOT. His love for baseball began at age five, and he’s been hooked ever since. His deceptive delivery is one of his most captivating features, refined through years of practice. With a five-pitch arsenal—including a four-seam fastball, sinker, changeup, and two sliders—Crowell keeps hitters guessing. His shorter slider, often thrown early in…

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Luke Fox: More Than a Crafty Lefty

November 30, 2024

I am going to be profileing Dodger Prospects and there may be 35 to 40 as I count them down. I am starting with Luke Fox. Luke Fox, a 6’2″ left-hander out of Duke, is a player whose journey has been anything but ordinary. A dynamic talent before Tommy John surgery derailed his 2023 season, Fox was seen as a potential top-10 round pick in the 2023 MLB Draft. Yet,…

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The Free Agents

November 29, 2024

In getting Blake Snell, the Dodgers removed one of the main free agents from the board, but there are still plenty of others to consider. Some possibilities are longshots and others are more likely. Let’s consider a few: Roki Sasaki: Some people say that the Padres are the favorites. I still believe the Dodgers make the most sense as Yu Darvish is at the end of his career while Yamamoto…

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Happy Dodger Thanksgiving!

November 28, 2024

We had our Thanksgiving Dinner last night in order to accomodate some schedule conflicts. We had about 35 members of our family here: inlaws, outlaws, no laws, etc. Today, we have to drop my wife’s neice and her husband off at the airport at 11:00 AM and then drive two hours to my daughters new house in Ft. Wayne to have Thanksgiving Dinner with her family. My wife and her…

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