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Dodgers notes: Bo Bichette, Shohei Ohtani, Ontario stadium
Hopefully everyone reading had a very Merry Christmas. Was the Dodgers adding a star free agent this week on your wish list? If so, well, I’m sorry to say that Santa Claus didn’t consider your requests with much enthusiasm— or attention for that matter. The Dodgers have made two signings of note so far this […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Will Klein
At the start of the 2025 season, Will Klein was toiling in Triple-A with the Seattle Mariners, but he ended it by being a saving grace for the Dodgers with a legendary Game 3 performance in the World Series. Klein made his big league debut in 2024 with the Kansas City Royals, later being packaged […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Alex Freeland
Switch-hitting Alex Freeland made his way to the majors in 2025, which qualifies this as a successful season for the 23-year-old shortstop. Freeland was called up to the Dodgers on July 29, the club’s second draft pick from 2022 to reach the majors. Freeland, a third-round pick that year out of Central Florida, was preceded […]
Dodgers notes: River Ryan, Gavin Stone, Joe Kelly
Just because the offseason has been relatively slow for the Dodgers compared to the past two offseasons, that doesn’t mean the team doesn’t possess an unruly and tyrannical force upon baseball. Edwin Díaz has been the only major splurge this offseason as a needs to address the Dodgers’ bullpen issues, but when it comes to […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Dalton Rushing
Dalton Rushing got his chance to earn some time in the big leagues in 2025, serving as the understudy to Will Smith after the Dodgers released Austin Barnes and platooning with Ben Rortvedt while Smith dealt with a hand injury. Rushing was ranked as the Dodgers’ no. 1 prospect entering the 2025 season, and it […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Emmet Sheehan
As a 23-year-old in 2023, Emmet Sheehan made a statement while pitching for the Dodgers with an impressive MLB debut, no-hitting the San Francisco Giants for six innings in June. He finished that season with a 4.92 ERA, but started 2024 on the injured list with right forearm inflammation before eventually undergoing Tommy John surgery. […]
All in the cards
Once again, we are on holiday autopilot, which means that barring the unexpected, it should be a very quiet week. Although, Munnetaka Murakami signed with the Chicago White Sox on a prove-it, two-year, $34 million deal on Sunday. This essay consists of a bunch of card-and-ball-related stubs that would be too short to merit their […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Chris Stratton
For those needing a dramatis personae, or those who mistook Chris Stratton for Andrew Heaney (oops), Stratton is a journeyman pitcher who was drafted by and debuted with the San Francisco Giants before bouncing around the league. Stratton broke into the league as a six-pitch starter, but shifted to the bullpen once joining the Pittsburgh Pirates organization in […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Hunter Feduccia
Hunter Feduccia in 2025 finally got his chance at extended major league time, but it took getting traded from the Dodgers for the opportunity. The 12th-round pick in 2018 out of LSU got one brief run with the Dodgers this April, called up for six games as Freddie Freeman finished off his early-season injured-list stint. […]
Dodgers notes: Mookie Betts, Justin Dean, Munetaka Murakami
The baseball world isn’t used to players appearing with widely-known influencers on streaming platforms, but Mookie Betts was handed the opportunity for fans to get to know a bit more about him. Betts appeared on a live stream with Adin Ross and N3on, two controversial streamers who operate on Kick, and they discussed whether hitting […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Matt Sauer
Matt Sauer got the chance to play for his hometown team, appearing in 10 games for the Dodgers and even making a start while pitchers such as Tyler Glasnow, Clayton Kershaw and Blake Snell were all on the injured list. A native of Santa Maria and a former second round pick in 2017 by the […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Nick Frasso
Nick Frasso returned from shoulder and hip surgeries that wiped out his 2024 season for a full 2025, but he struggled in Triple-A to end his time with the Dodgers. Acquired from the Blue Jays in the Mitch White trade in 2022, the 6’5 Frasso was ranked the 79th-best prospect in baseball by Baseball Prospectus […]
Dodgers sign Chuckie Robinson, Carlos Duran to minor league deals
In the last week or so the Dodgers have signed a trio of players to minor league contracts, per the MLB.com transaction logs. Nick Frasso returning after getting non-tendered was already reported, but a couple others have returned as well — catcher Chuckie Robinson and pitcher Carlos Duran. Robinson had a busy year transactionally, spending […]
Dodgers will pay $169.4 million in competitive balance tax, a new MLB record
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series for the second year in a row, and did so with the highest-paid team in Major League Baseball history. The Dodgers’ payroll in 2025 for competitive balance tax purposes was $417.3 million, per Ronald Blum at Associated Press, which resulted in a record-setting luxury tax levy of […]
Clayton Kershaw should play for Team USA
Clayton Kershaw has ridden off into the sunset as an unlikely back-to-back champion. Normally, athletes who linger in their respective sports do not receive the fairytale ending they were promised as children. As players have started to announce whether they will participate in the World Baseball Classic, while sifting through old essays for follow-up, I […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor will always be remembered for his rise to postseason hero after he was famously traded from the Seattle Mariners to the Dodgers in June 2016 for pitcher Zach Lee. The move revitalized his swing and career as he became a super-utility star and multi-time World Series champion with the Dodgers. After a decade […]
Dodgers players’ haul for winning World Series is $484,748 per share
LOS ANGELES – A full postseason share for the Dodgers, who won the World Series for a second straight season, is worth $484,747.57 in 2025, part of a total $128.2 million player pool for the postseason, a source confirmed to True Blue LA. Players’ share of the postseason pool is determined by gate receipts from […]
2025 Dodgers in review: Clayton Kershaw
In what was the final season of his historic career, Clayton Kershaw gave Dodgers fans one last hurrah as he ended his career as a three-time champion and one of the greatest pitchers in franchise history. Kershaw played a minor role in helping the Dodgers maintain their supremacy in the NL West in 2024, making […]
Report: Dodgers interested in Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar
It’s been a slow week since for the Dodgers since their signing of Edwin Díaz, and although their names have been attached to marquee outfield names, they have yet to pull the trigger. While the Dodgers have been linked to players such as Kyle Tucker and Cody Bellinger, they have also been in the mix […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Kirby Yates
Potentially, no reliever in the entire sport saw a larger dropoff in performance from their 2024 to 2025 production than the veteran Kirby Yates, perfectly encapsulating a trying year for a Dodger bullpen that failed to live up to expectations. Signed to a very lucrative one-year deal following a magnificent campaign with the Texas Rangers, […]
Dodgers notes: Edwin Díaz, Dustin May, David Dahl
Edwin Díaz was facing the Dodgers as the star closer for the New York Mets during the 2024 NLCS. Just over a year later, and Díaz is the newest face of the Dodgers’ bullpen as their star closer. The race for Díaz ultimately came down to three teams; the Dodgers offered Díaz a three-year deal […]
Dodgers World Series win celebrated at Hall of Fame
Every year at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, the reigning champion has a display at the museum with various artifacts and highlights from the World Series and postseason. For the second straight year, the ‘Autumn Glory’ display will celebrate the Dodgers. After the Dodgers won the World Series in Toronto […]
2025 Dodgers season review: Blake Treinen
Twelve months ago, Blake Treinen was a folk hero, as the lanky and taciturn, salt-of-the-earth reliever who bent but never broke getting critical outs as the Dodgers vanquished the New York Yankees with aplomb, earning himself both a bobblehead night on August 17, 2025, and a new two-year contract. With new addition-Tanner Scott to man […]
Dodgers notes: Kiké Hernández, Edwin Díaz, Freddie Freeman
A few Dodgers items of interest to start your Tuesday morning. First up is an interview Kiké Hernández had with David Vassegh of AM 570 on Saturday. Hernández is a free agent, but note how often he refers to the Dodgers as “we” in this clip, which recounts Hernández’s conversation with fellow Puerto Rican Edwin […]
Edwin Díaz contract details, Dodgers payroll, draft pick loss & more
The Dodgers finalized their contract for closer Edwin Díaz on Friday, signing the veteran closer for three years and $69 million. At $23 million per year, Díaz has the largest reliever contract by average annual value in baseball history, breaking his own record. Much like several Dodgers contracts in recent years, Díaz has deferred money […]
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