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Dodgers spring training officially begins next week at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona, so let’s take a look at the roster heading into camp. We’ll start first with the infielders, the deepest (and oldest) group on the team among position players. Dodgers infielders hit .257/.332/.422 as a group in 2025, easily outpacing the outfielders at […]
From True Blue LA | 5 days ago | 0 reads
Shohei Ohtani signed the largest contract in baseball history at the time in December 2023, and in his first two years in Los Angeles has won two championships, won two MVP awards, and set two Dodgers single-season home run records. Ohtani’s 54 home runs in 2024 were five more than Shawn Green’s previous franchise mark […]
From True Blue LA | 5 days ago | 0 reads
The Michael Siani offseason rollercoaster looped around to make a second stop in Los Angeles, as the center fielder was claimed by the Dodgers off waivers from the New York Yankees on Tuesday. This comes 11 days after the Yankees claimed him off waivers from the Dodgers. It’s been a busy offseason for the defense-first […]
From True Blue LA | 6 days ago | 1 read
Christian Zazueta is coming off a breakout season in 2025, posting a 2.41 ERA in 17 starts, 16 of them for Class-A Rancho Cucamonga, with 81 strikeouts and 16 walks in 67 1/3 innings, his 23.8-percent strikeout-minus-walk rate tops among all Dodgers minor league pitchers with at least 50 innings last year. The right-hander was […]
From True Blue LA | 6 days ago | 1 read
Eighth in the series. Today we look at the Cubs’ third-year first baseman. Michael Busch, drafted in the first round (2019) by the Dodgers (31st overall, from UNC), and later acquired by the Cubs for second-round pick Jackson Ferris and minor leaguer Zyhir Hope, has paid dividends since being installed as the Cubs first baseman. He […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | 6 days ago | 1 read
Star players are exciting to watch, no doubt, but baseball seasons are long, and there is plenty of time to build up an affection for just about every type of player. Miguel Rojas is entering his 13th and final major league season, before he transitions into a front office role with the Dodgers. He’s never […]
From True Blue LA | 6 days ago | 0 reads
Unless you are new, you know the drill by now. But for those who actually keep track of the annual update, when not writing long-form essays, I travel the world following the Dodgers around. I am up to two continents and three countries, which was just my 2025. In my lifetime, I have attended 126 […]
From True Blue LA | 6 days ago | 1 read
Some Tuesday morning Dodgers news and notes, one day after closer Edwin Díaz was officially announced as pitching for Puerto Rico in the 2026 World Baseball Classic. FanGraphs unveiled its initial 2026 playoff odds on Monday. Understandably, the Dodgers are at the top, with a projected 99.6 wins and a 99.1-percent chance to make the […]
From True Blue LA | 7 days ago | 0 reads
The Dodgers were enamored with Tommy Edman long before they traded for him during the 2024 season, then extended him last winter. His versatility on the field has proved quite valuable even as he’s struggled with a right ankle injury during the last two seasons. Even if Edman is limited to mostly one position in […]
From True Blue LA | 7 days ago | 1 read
Add another name to the pitching depth chart this year, as the Dodgers signed left-hander Cole Irvin to a minor league contract that includes a non-roster invitation to spring training, per multiple reports. Aram Leighton at Just Baseball Media was first to report the signing, which was also confirmed by Fabian Ardaya at The Athletic […]
From True Blue LA | 8 days ago | 2 reads
It’s February now, which means the Dodgers will play baseball games this very month. Sure, those games won’t count, but they will be televised nonetheless, and we will get to watch as the team gradually builds up toward the season. This will be more of a normal spring training for the Dodgers, at least in […]
From True Blue LA | 8 days ago | 1 read
The Dodgers have River Ryan returning from 2024 Tommy John surgery, and is expected to be part of the team’s starting rotation puzzle in the 2026 season. There’s also at least a chance that he might be teammates with his brother Ryder Ryan, who was signed by the Dodgers to a minor league deal that […]
From True Blue LA | 9 days ago | 1 read
The Los Angeles Dodgers are on track to pay at least 160 million dollars of MLB competitive balance tax in 2026. In all, ten teams will be charged close to 500 million dollars in 2026. And it’s only January 31st. There are some big free agents still available. We’ve been over the salary cap and […]
From Talking Chop | 9 days ago | 0 reads
We’ve had a pair of top-100 prospect lists drop in each of the last two weeks, with between four and seven Dodgers included on those lists. But with those list also comes further analysis of the minor leagues, both with individual players and farm systems as a whole. Taiwanese outfielder Ching-Hsien Ko was one of […]
From True Blue LA | 10 days ago | 0 reads
Part of the spring training ritual is figuring out which pitchers are a little behind the curve, and who might not be ready for the start of the season. It’s inevitable and happens with every team. The first domino for the Dodgers fell on Thursday, when Blake Snell at a team community event at Aquarium […]
From True Blue LA | 10 days ago | 1 read
The Dodgers this week signed Ryder Ryan to a minor league contract with a non-roster invitation to spring training, per multiple reports. The pitcher if he makes the majors would earn a salary of $800,000, per both Fabian Ardaya at The Athletic and Jon Heyman of the New York Post. Ryan pitched parts of two […]
From True Blue LA | 10 days ago | 0 reads
Braydon Fisher is a right-handed pitcher who came to us from the Dodgers, in trade for Cavan Biggio, in June of 2024. Fisher was a fourth-round draft pick in 2018. Cavan played 30 games for the Dodgers, hitting .192.306/.329 and was released in early August. He went from there to the Giants, then the Braves, […]
From Bluebird Banter | 10 days ago | 5 reads
In arguably the greatest World Series of the decade, the Dodgers went all in with their starting pitching to get the job done in a back-and-forth seven game series against the Toronto Blue Jays. This included Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitching on zero days rest to complete Game 7, while other starters such as Blake Snell and […]
From True Blue LA | 11 days ago | 1 read
All of Major League Baseball has been debating for a while if A), what the Dodgers are doing with their payroll is the ‘correct’ way of doing things; B), how long it would be sustainable; and C) will it finally trigger a salary cap. For the Dodgers front office, doing it ‘correctly’ is just semantics. […]
From True Blue LA | 12 days ago | 1 read
Good morning, baseball fans! The newest member of the San Francisco Giants, Harrison Bader, joined The Max Mannis Podcast earlier this week to discuss his decision to join the Giants’ organization. During the episode, Bader discusses his approach to facing his new team’s biggest rivals and reigning World Series champions (boo), the Los Angeles Dodgers. […]
From McCovey Chronicles | 12 days ago | 2 reads
After I posted this article Tuesday citing a Joon Lee report on the Dodgers supposedly not paying their fair share of TV revenue sharing, my attention was called to this Los Angeles Times article by Bill Shaikin, in which Lee’s claims are, well, basically refuted: It also revived a strange chapter in team history, with […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | 12 days ago | 1 read
From Corey Seager, to Trea Turner, to Mookie Betts, the Dodgers had a carousel of options at shortstop from 2021 to the beginning of last season. It was Betts who stepped up in 2025 and ensured that the team had to look no further than inward as to which player would be their primary shortstop. […]
From True Blue LA | 13 days ago | 1 read
Kiley McDaniel unveiled his preseason rankings of top 100 prospects in baseball on Tuesday at ESPN. Like the previously released lists — Baseball America (120 names), MLB Pipeline (110 names), and The Athletic (100 names so far) — McDaniel will likely reveal more names beyond the top 100. Last year his list went to 200, […]
From True Blue LA | 13 days ago | 2 reads
Last week, I wrote this article noting that a number of owners were “enraged” about the Dodgers signing Kyle Tucker and that some owners were going to push for a salary cap “no matter what.” The Dodgers are doing a pretty good job of playing MLB’s villain team, the equivalent to the “Evil Empire” the […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | 13 days ago | 3 reads
The Summer Olympics are coming to Los Angeles in 2028, and baseball will be played at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts wants to be involved, telling Dylan Hernández of the California Post that he wants to manage Team USA. From Hernández: “I went to school here,” the UCLA graduate said. “I manage the Dodgers. […]
From True Blue LA | 14 days ago | 1 read