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A baseball season takes a while to complete, and it’s especially long for teams that start early overseas and for teams that advance all the way to the World Series. The 2025 Los Angeles Dodgers started their season on March 18 in Tokyo and ended on November 1 in Toronto, the longest season in MLB […]
From True Blue LA | 21 days ago | 3 reads
Welp, it was another great day for the big spenders, as the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees went home with some more hardware. MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani took home his third consecutive MVP award, including his second with the Dodgers, on Thursday night. On the AL side, Aaron Judge took home his […]
From Brew Crew Ball | 21 days ago | 3 reads
It is rare in sports that excitement and expectation are fulfilled in such a wholesome way as has been the case with Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers. By securing his second straight NL MVP, Ohtani is two for two in World Series rings and Most Valuable Player awards since joining the Dodgers. What else could […]
From True Blue LA | 21 days ago | 3 reads
When we last left off with Young Master Wrobleski in 2024, he had the opportunity to succeed in the 2025 season due to a combination of makeup and stuff. No one doubted Wrobleski’s temperament when it came to going after batters. Where Wrobleski had significant room to improve was in throwing quality pitches at the […]
From True Blue LA | 22 days ago | 3 reads
So far 2025 honors seem to be repeat performances from last year. With the exception of the ROY announcement on Monday (which technically can’t be the same as the year before) we’ve had familiar faces hoisting hardware. It started with the rare back-to-back World Series victories by the Los Angeles Dodgers and has continued with […]
From Athletics Nation | 22 days ago | 1 read
Ben Rortvedt is a former 2nd round draft pick out of Verona High School in Verona, Wisconsin. Back in 2016, the Minnesota Twins – franchise known for drafting ‘local’ players in much the same way as the Cincinnati Reds – plucked him, and he eventually made his big league debut with the Twins during the […]
From Red Reporter | 22 days ago | 4 reads
The Dodgers announced on Wednesday that Tony Gonsolin was outrighted and selected free agency and Ben Rortvedt was claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds. Since there was no indication that Rortvedt had been designated for assignment, the Dodgers’ 40-man roster is now down to 39. A sixth round draft pick out of St. Mary’s […]
From True Blue LA | 22 days ago | 2 reads
The 11-season run by Austin Barnes with the Dodgers ended when the veteran backstop was released in May. Dalton Rushing was ready in the wings, and the Dodgers were set on defending their World Series title by improving the team in any way they could. There was no room for sentimentality earlier in the season […]
From True Blue LA | 23 days ago | 3 reads
The stove is sizzling and the temperature is rising. The offseason is officially here. The Dodgers now own the exclusive mantra as the two-time defending champions of baseball, and they won their most recent championship with a glaring issue that the Dodgers tried to mitigate in the postseason. The Dodgers’ 2025 bullpen was undoubtedly the […]
From True Blue LA | 23 days ago | 4 reads
Tommy Edman was limited to just 97 games over the regular season, requiring two separate stints on the injured list as he dealt with right ankle inflammation and later a right ankle sprain. Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes told Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic that Edman will be undergoing right ankle surgery next week, with […]
From True Blue LA | 23 days ago | 4 reads
Dave Roberts failed to get even a single vote for the 2025 National League Manager of the Year, and for the second straight season, Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy has been named the recipient of the award. Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona finished second in voting after coming out of a brief retirement, and Philadelphia […]
From True Blue LA | 23 days ago | 4 reads
Welcome to the second edition of Tuesday Top Ten, an offseason series which attempts to rank specific moments, players, games, or other nostalgic occurrences from throughout Mets history. The previous ranking looked at the Mets’ best World Series performers as the Blue Jays and Dodgers battled for a championship. With the offseason officially underway, this […]
From Amazin' Avenue | 24 days ago | 4 reads
Andy Pages followed up a solid rookie campaign with a stellar sophomore season where he placed second on the team in home runs behind Shohei Ohtani. Despite a horrible postseason, he had his bright spots, including a season saving catch in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series. The Dodgers attempted to […]
From True Blue LA | 24 days ago | 3 reads
In the Formula 1 world, “silly season” refers to the period—usually around the sport’s summer break—when rumors about drivers’ contracts and team plans for the next year start picking up more speed than a car going down a straight. In baseball, that period starts immediately after the last pitch of the World Series is thrown, […]
From True Blue LA | 24 days ago | 4 reads
The Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball’s foremost authority on the Rookie of the Year award, didn’t exactly have a memorable campaign on the subject in 2025, but still found a way to sneak at least one player into the voting poll. Jack Dreyer received two top 5 votes in the National League, with Braves […]
From True Blue LA | 24 days ago | 5 reads
The Royals are adding Marcus Thames to their coaching staff as a hitting coach, according to MLB.com reporter Anne Rogers. Last week they added Connor Dawson as an assistant hitting coach. Both will work under director of hitting performance Alec Zumwalt. Thames was a 10-year MLB outfielder with the Yankees, Rangers, Tigers, and Dodgers, who […]
From Royals Review | 25 days ago | 3 reads
Mookie Betts successfully navigated his first full season at a new, more challenging defensive position, while also having the worst offensive season of his Hall of Fame career. And he was candid about going through the many challenges of his season. In retrospect, getting sent home early from the season-opening trip to Tokyo and not […]
From True Blue LA | 25 days ago | 2 reads
Ryan Loutos started the season in the Cardinals organization and ended the year with the Nationals. But in between he spent 40 days with the Dodgers. The Dodgers tied their franchise record by using 40 pitchers in 2025, matching 2024. Loutos was No. 25 on the list, when he debuted for them on May 16 […]
From True Blue LA | 26 days ago | 3 reads
Given how strong and healthy the Dodgers starting pitching was over the final two months of the regular season and into the postseason, it’s easy to forget some of the previous contributors waiting in the wings to return. Among those is River Ryan, who impressed in his brief major league debut in 2024. Ryan was […]
From True Blue LA | 26 days ago | 4 reads
Buddy Kennedy was this year’s Taylor Trammell, as he played for both 2025 World Series teams, the Dodgers and Blue Jays. Just like last year, when Trammell started the year in the Mariners system and then played for the Dodgers and Yankees. Kennedy in 2025 started the season with the Phillies, then found his way […]
From True Blue LA | 27 days ago | 2 reads
As previously reported, before the rosters were announced for the 2025 World Series, Alex Vesia announced that he was stepping away from the team because of a “deeply personal family matter.” Vesia and his wife, Kayla, were expecting their first child at the time of the announcement. “It’s with a heavy heart that we share […]
From True Blue LA | 27 days ago | 4 reads
Zach Penrod is in many ways the reason why I enjoy this annual series of player reviews. The left-hander did not pitch for the Dodgers in 2025, but did spend six weeks on the 40-man roster. He was deemed important enough to occupy a roster spot, so why not chronicle his time with the team, […]
From True Blue LA | 27 days ago | 4 reads
Heading into the weekend with a handful of Dodgers stories, news, and notes. Jay Jaffe dug into the data on the Dodgers’ recent title run in various forms at FanGraphs, and concluded “this Dodgers dynasty can stand with the best of the expansion era.” Bradley Woodrum, who was the coordinator of baseball information services in […]
From True Blue LA | 27 days ago | 3 reads
We cover the coverage like PCA covers center field. This is all so theatre of the absurd, because we know all of the free agents will sign with the Dodgers for jewelry. I’ve heard that the Dodgers made an offer to 2027, seeking to buy the whole season, should there be one, and also optioned […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | 27 days ago | 3 reads
It’s the first weekend of the offseason, now officially a week past the end of the World Series. The world moves fast, and just as the champagne was drying and we were all catching our collective breath after Game 7 between the Dodgers and Blue Jays, the offseason began in earnest. Thirteen players were tendered […]
From Pinstripe Alley | 27 days ago | 2 reads