Where The Dodger Dogs Are Always Grilled
If it’s the Dodgers’ offseason, it’s time to discuss the ongoing potential boondoggle of the Dodger Gondola project. The construction project to build a gondola system to take passengers to and from Union Station to Dodger Stadium by way of Chinatown has been hotly debated from the start. When we last covered this story in […]
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The 2025 awards have come and gone, and Shohei Ohtani continued to pile up more hardware for his mantel. Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Will Smith were other Dodgers also honored for their efforts this season. Ohtani has been a Dodger for two seasons, and has won the National League MVP both times, unanimously. His award last […]
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame on Monday announced the ballot for the 2026 class, with 12 new players joining the 15 holdovers who earned at least five percent on the 2025 ballot. Among the newcomers is longtime Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp. Kemp was drafted by the Dodgers in 2003 and played 10 of his […]
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Max Muncy’s 2025 season can be sliced into three individual pieces; a rocky beginning, a two month stretch where he was arguably the best left handed hitter in baseball, and an injury plagued second half to the season. Muncy was coming off an injury riddled 2024 season that saw him miss 89 games due to […]
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Robinson Ortiz, the left-handed pitcher who was just added to the 40-man roster on November 6, just ten days later was traded by the Dodgers to the Mariners for minor league pitcher Tyler Gough. Gough had a 4.66 ERA over two years with Class-A Modesto, a team that no longer exists, with 123 strikeouts and […]
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As it’s customary in the early stages of the offseason, you start hearing about all the issues certain players battled through to be there, contributing to what was ultimately a successful playoff run. Kike Hernández is one of the names on the list, as the utility man recently announced he underwent surgery to repair a […]
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The Dodgers have enjoyed incredible stability at the catching position for several years, but this season was more chaotic, and not just because the team transitioned from veteran Austin Barnes to top prospect Dalton Rushing. Chuckie Robinson was one of five catchers used by the Dodgers in 2025. Will Smith debuted midway through the 2019 […]
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James Outman struggled mightily for a second straight year following his breakout rookie season, playing in just 22 games with the Dodgers before being traded to the Minnesota Twins at the trade deadline. After making the opening day roster in each of the past two seasons, Outman opened the season in Triple-A with the Oklahoma […]
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Roki Sasaki was expected to be a fixture of the Dodgers’ rotation for the 2025 season. After eight starts, Sasaki would miss four months of time, and instead of returning to the rotation, he was tasked with appearing out of the bullpen to end the season. After two dominant relief outings, Sasaki was named the […]
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José Ureña had a record-setting year in 2025, and that included a week with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ureña not only joined the Buddy Kennedy club, playing for both World Series teams — the Dodgers and Blue Jays — but the veteran pitcher tied a major league record by pitching for five teams in 2025. […]
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Gavin Stone was the answer to a trivia question in 2024, as he led a championship team in both starts (25) and innings pitched (140 1/3), but did not pitch during the postseason. The right-hander had shoulder surgery in October 2024, which not only wiped out a potential playoff run but also the entire 2025 […]
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The Dodgers have won back-to-back World Championships. Yes, I was there at Game 7, serving as a calming force for others, a fact that I will harp on for the foreseeable future. Even hardened cynics are proclaiming that this World Series is the best of all time. I’m not sure I can go that far, […]
27 days ago | 2 reads
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 […]
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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 […]
28 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 […]
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto was a top-three candidate for the 2025 NL Cy Young award, but it was Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes that took home the award unanimously. Yamamoto finished in third place, receiving zero first or second place votes as Philadelphia Phillies southpaw Cristopher Sánchez finished as the unanimous runner-up. The record didn’t look too […]
29 days ago | 2 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 […]
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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 […]
29 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 […]
29 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 […]
30 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 […]
30 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 […]
30 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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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