Where The Dodger Dogs Are Always Grilled
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 […]
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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 […]
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Former Dodgers reliever Matt Sauer has found a new home overseas for the 2026 season. On Friday, Sauer has signed with the KT Wiz of the KBO on a one-year deal worth $950,000. He will receive $750,000 via salary and an additional $200,000 via signing bonus. Jee-ho Yoo of Yonhap News was the first to […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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How does one begin to describe being in attendance at arguably the best game of baseball ever played? I started this journey with you all in late April and early May of 2021. For the past four seasons, everything has been leading to this moment, to this setting. Not necessarily the outcome, but there are […]
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Teoscar Hernández was a key cog in the Dodgers lineup during the 2024 championship run, and parlayed that into a three-year deal to return to Los Angeles that seemingly everyone wanted to happen. Year one of the deal saw regression, and the key will be finding out how much was aging and how much was […]
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It is the beginning of the offseason, and the blockbuster signings of the winter are steaming and brewing. But, for now, we wait and wonder what the Dodgers will do this time around after two exorbitant offseason spending sprees. Old friend Kenta Maeda, who spent four seasons with the Dodgers from 2016-19, won’t be on […]
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The Dodgers won a pair of National League Silver Slugger Awards on Thursday, one for star Shohei Ohtani and another as the best team on offense in the circuit. Voting is done by league managers and up to three coaches from each team. It’s the fourth Silver Slugger Award for Ohtani as the top designated […]
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Thursday was a busy transactional day for the Dodgers, who exercised 2026 club options for third baseman Max Muncy ($10 million) and relief pitcher Alex Vesia ($3.65 million) but also made several other moves. Tony Gonsolin was designated for assignment, which made room on the full 40-man roster for Muncy’s return. But it was a […]
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The Dodgers on Thursday exercised their 2026 club option on Max Muncy, which will pay the third baseman $10 million next season, his ninth in Los Angeles. Having been around on the major league team since 2018, Muncy is the longest-tenured Dodger. The Dodgers’ two previous club option decisions on Muncy were been resolved with […]
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The Dodgers on Thursday exercised their 2026 club option for pitcher Alex Vesia, which will pay the left-handed relief pitcher $3.65 million next season. Vesia last January first exchanged salary figures with the Dodgers, but then avoided an arbitration hearing with a two-year contract that paid him $2.25 million in 2025. The initial base salary […]
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Freddie Freeman remains one of the most consistent hitters throughout the past 10 seasons, and he continued that trend in 2025 with another All-Star season despite a power slump through the middle of the year. Freeman was coming off a remarkable run in the 2024 World Series, grinding through a right ankle sprain, a fractured […]
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The Dodgers partied hard this weekend, and now, they’re looking ahead to the 2026 season. Jack Harris at the Los Angeles Times has four big questions for the team, starting with: Can they keep spending this much money? The Dodgers set records this year with $347 million in year-end salary and $415 million in competitive […]
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Behold, a normal spring training is coming for the Los Angeles Dodgers! Major League Baseball on Wednesday unveiled the full schedule for spring training in 2026. The Dodgers will begin Cactus League play on Saturday, February 21 against the Angels in Tempe. In each of the last two seasons, the Dodgers began their regular season […]
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. Blake Snell was the Dodgers’ No. 1 free-agent target last offseason, and the veteran left-hander made no secret of why he reunited with president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman in Los Angeles. “Being able to pitched in a packed stadium, to make moments for people, this is where you want to play. I don’t […]
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There is no better time to be a Dodgers fan than right now. The Dodgers as a team have established themselves as not only the first repeat champions in 25 years, but as a bona fide dynasty. With all the celebration ensuing since Saturday’s Game 7 victory over the Blue Jays, reality will settle in […]
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Amid the joy of the Dodgers’ second straight World Series win and subsequent championship parade and celebration on Monday was the absence of pitcher Alex Vesia, one of the team’s best relief pitchers for the last five seasons. Vesia pitched in seven of the Dodgers’ 10 playoff games through the National League Championship Series, but […]
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Have you come down from the high yet? If yesterday’s parade is any indication, the Dodgers certainly haven’t—and why should they? I’ll be wearing Dodger blue, spontaneously bursting into “I Love L.A.,” and watching highlights all week. In the spirit of letting the party continue, today’s notes feature some excellent analysis of Game 7, parade […]
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The Baseball Writers Association of America on Monday announced the top three finishers for its four awards, with a pair of Dodgers recognized for their excellent 2025 seasons. Shohei Ohtani is in the top three in voting for the National League MVP award, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto is in the top three for the NL Cy […]
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So many things happened in Game 7 of the World Series, even just from the ninth inning and beyond, that it was hard to fully capture everything. “It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t pretty,” Kiké Hernández said during the postgame celebration on Saturday. “But we did the damn thing.” Here are some leftover notes, facts, and […]
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Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela is one of eight players on the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee ballot for possible selection to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the class of 2026. It’s the first time on a veterans committee-type ballot for Valenzuela, who received 6.2 percent of the vote on Baseball Writers Association of America […]
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The World Series has given baseball fans from all walks of life memories for life. From Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off home run in 1960, the catch by Willie Mays in 1954, Luis Gonzalez’s walk-off against Mariano Rivera to thwart the New York Yankees’ chances of winning four straight championships in 2001, and more recently, the Chicago […]
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