Archive for January, 2014

Photos from the Stadium Series at Dodger Stadium

Here are photos from the historic Stadium Series at Dodger Stadium on Saturday evening, January 25, 2014 before a sellout crowd of 54,099. (Click on photos to enlarge) …and the best there ever was – Bob Miller and Vin Scully

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Trayvon Robinson returns

Trayvon Robinson has returned to Dodger Blue. Well, perhaps not to Dodger Blue exactly, but at least to the Dodgers fold with a minor league contract and an invitation to big league camp. Unless he chooses, as former Dodger prospect Josh Bell did, Robinson should once again patrol the outfield with the Albuquerque Isotopes in 2014. […]

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Clayton Kershaw – Baseball’s anti-rockstar

“‘Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap We’ll all stay skinny ’cause we just won’t eat And we’ll hang out in the coolest bars In the VIP with the movie stars Every good gold digger’s gonna wind […]

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Dodgers sign Chone Figgins to minor league contract

It was announced late Friday afternoon that the Dodgers have signed veteran utility infielder/outfielder Chone Figgins to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training camp. The 36-year-old Leary, GA native last appeared in the majors with the Mariners in 2012 and has a .277 career batting average with 35 home runs and […]

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Great Lakes Loons – Year In Review

The Great Lakes Loons are the Dodgers Low Single-A affiliate in the Midwest League. The team moved to Midland, Michigan in 2007 after completing the 2006 season at the historic Dodgertown complex in Vero Beach, Florida. At that time the move was very troubling for me, having visited Dodgertown twice in the mid-eighties. However, that […]

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Not landing Tanaka could test Dodgers mettle

We’ve been hearing it since Day-1 of the Guggenheim Dodgers and especially this past season – the Dodgers want to get younger. In fact, Dodgers President and CEO Stan Kasten even went so far as to declare that getting younger was a major part of the Dodgers’ master plan. Last November, longtime Dodgers beat writer […]

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Changing minor league teams is no easy task

As baseball fans know, spring training is when MLB teams establish their respective 25-man and 40-man rosters for the upcoming season. But what some fans may not realize is that it is also when MLB teams set their minor league rosters for the coming season as well. These minor league rosters are set in hopes […]

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Dodgers expand non-roster invitee list to 15

The Dodgers have expanded their non-roster invitee list for major league spring training camp bringing the total to 15. Veteran MLB catcher Miguel Olivo and homegrown Dodgers catching prospect Griff Erickson, both free agents, have been signed to minor league contracts with invitations to major league camp. Olivo has spent 12 seasons in the majors with […]

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Does Masahiro Tanaka deserve a Greinke-like contract?

A little over a year ago at his introductory press conference, former Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke was asked by the Dodger media what it was like being the (then) highest paid pitcher in MLB history. In true Greinke style, the 29-year-old Orlando, Florida native and proud owner of a six-year / $147 million […]

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Dodgers Digest makes debut – well, sort of

This past off-season has been a rather unusual one for Dodger bloggers. It saw the passing of several long-time sites and the introduction of several new ones – most notably Dodgers Insider, the brainchild of veteran Dodger Thoughts blogger and the Dodgers new Director of Digital and Print Content Jon Weisman. But in a bold […]

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