Fake News

December 9, 2023

For about a year, I have been predicting that Shohei Ohtani will not be a Dodger. Until proven wrong, I stand by that… STILL! On November 11th, I wrote this: “Everyone seems to revere Ohtani as “God-like,” and while he is an amazing talent, I think any team that is determined to sign him is going to regret it very much. I believe you are going to see him start…

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Organizational Failure

October 18, 2023

If you have been around baseball for as long as I have (and many of you have been around it longer), if a team won the NL or AL Pennant, they played the winner of the opposite league in the World Series. Then, if they won four games in that series, they were declared World Champion. Simple! They were the best team in baseball that season. It was simple. It…

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Kimbrel is Fixed… For Now!

August 30, 2022

That means he is really not fixed – you can just see the momentum shift as he throws strikes and then throws balls. I hope, wish, and pray he is fixed, but he’s not. I hope to the Big Dodger in the Sky that I am wrong. He’s Kenley Jansen revisited. The Dodgers will rue the day they did not DFA him. He looked great his last time out as…

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Never Assume

May 2, 2022

There are two types of people. Those that make assumptions without any logic or proof and those that need proof before believing anything. Before I jump right into this, I am going to give you a quote from Dodgers’ GM, Brandon Gomes about Andrew Friedman: He’s an incredible leader. His ability to take in a ton of different opinions and bake them in, his ability to say ‘I don’t know’ is…

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Press Release

January 18, 2022

DODGERS ANNOUNCE BASEBALL OPERATIONS MOVES LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Damon Jones as Vice President, Assistant General Manager & Baseball Legal Counsel, and the promotions of Alex Slater to Vice President, Assistant General Manager, Brandon McDaniel to Vice President of Player Performance and Thomas Albert to Head Athletic Trainer. Jones joins the Dodgers after serving the last two seasons as the Washington Football Team’s General Counsel. The…

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Why the Dodgers Don’t Have a GM

December 12, 2021

There has been a lot of speculation as to why the Dodgers have not appointed a General Manager to take the place of their last GM – Farhan Zaidi. Some have speculated that it is because Andrew Friedman is an ego-manic who wants all the power. That explanation is too absurd to even warrant a response. I have also wondered why Friedman has not appointed a GM to take Zaidi’s…

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Final Pre-Season Thoughts

July 22, 2020

Intrasquad games and the exhibition season has come to an end.  The results have been generally positive. The offense seems to be working on all cylinders.  They are working the count, fouling off pitches, and attacking mistakes.  During these games, they have shown they CAN BE a good two strike hitting team.  They are going the other way with so much consistency that it is not a mistake.  Some are…

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Cape Cod Baseball League

May 29, 2020

A long time ago when the earth was young – well maybe not that long ago – I visited the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts. It was almost 45 years ago and it was a whirlwind visit as a day trip from East Bridgewater, a small community about 30 miles south of Boston. My wife and I were visiting relatives in the East Bridgewater area and they took us on…

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I’ll Trade You My Shooter Marble For Your Cat’s Eye

October 21, 2019

The off-season is fully here yet, but the banter about the free-agents we should sign or acquire by trade has already begun in full-force.   I thought I might join in on the speculation, and throw out some names that haven’t been mentioned before, or at least not recently.   Keep in mind that I have not made any in-depth statistical analysis of these players, I don’t have any of their medical…

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Steady As She Goes

July 8, 2019

Well here we go, with my initial attempt to entertain you folks for the day and, hopefully,  provide you with an interesting and thought provoking read.  Admittedly, Mark T. tried his best to trade for Jon Weisman or Mike Petriello, two of the most elite bloggers out there, but he was unsuccessful.  Instead, rather sadly, he ended up giving you me, the Zac Rosscup of bloggers.  As we take a…

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