I got to thinking about this since I have had a couple of spirited discussions with a friend of mine on another site. Today it seems to be the definition has changed some. I am beginning to believe there is no such thing as a pure utility player anymore. The Dodgers were lucky for the last several years to have what many called super subs. And they had two at…
May you and your families have a Happy Thanksgiving… wherever you are! Let’s all count our blessings and remember our friends – ones who are still with us and ones who we won’t see again. None of us know how many more trips around the sun we have so let us gather with our families whenever possible and be thankful. Let’s not forget our Dodger Family. Happy Thanksgiving Dodger Brothers…
As we all know, just before the Rule 5 Deadline, the Dodgers cut ties with Billy McKinney and Zach Reks while adding Jacob Amaya, James Outman, Eddys Leonard, Jorbit Vivas, and Michael Grove to the 40-man roster. On a team with plenty of LH bats, Zach Reks and Billy McKinney were expendable. You do not get to this level if you are a chump, so it is possible that one…
I got to thinking the other day about why baseball is my favorite sport. And I also wondered why others choose this sport to be their favorite. It is not the easiest game to play. And it requires a lot of skill sets to play at the highest level. The greatest are usually said to have had 5 tools. Hit for average, run well, field at a high level, hit…
A few days ago, we celebrated Veterans Day. A day that we thank those who have served our country over the years. Protecting the freedoms we have all come to cherish. In a couple of weeks, the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor will be observed. There are not many still alive who remember that day and even fewer who survived it. What followed over the next 4 years was…
Andrew Heaney will not be the first low-risk high-reward pitcher signing. It is pretty common to hear things like “Andrew Friedman signed another pitcher off the scrap heap” and similar things. I think some fans believe that Andrew is sitting at his desk randomly pushing the button that determines the direction of the Dodgers. I think that is abjectly untrue! The following interview should give you a little insight into…
The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the CBA between MLB and the MLBPA. I think it’s way too early to predict what will happen, but you can rest assured that the Luxury Tax Threshold and salaries will go up. Everything is preliminary at this point. Ultimately, it seems like the DH will be implemented in the NL and there will be some additional time limits put on the game,…
NOTE: If I can get Jeff Dominique and Dodger Chatter to each post once a week, then I also have Bear and DodgerRick who want to post… maybe I can see a way to keep this thing going. I am going to reach out to Rick, Bear, and B & P and have a conversation about what, when, and where. What I am doing here is a 10-minute exercise. Here…
As I have mentioned, I need to reduce my involvement with LADT. Several of you have volunteered to write and some of you already write. The problem that I have is that if you send me a written post with some photos, it may take up to an hour for me to post it… and the thing is, it takes me about an hour to do a post myself, so…
Of course, you know I don’t care, but I took a lot of flack from various and diverse fans earlier this year when I blasted Rob Manfred and MLB Baseball for moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver because the State of Georgia had passed what the Democratic White House and many of the Democratic politicians called racist voter suppression. Of course, that was a lie. Some of you…