Where The Dodger Dogs Are Always Grilled
After losing six players in the previous four Rule 5 Drafts, no Dodgers minor leaguers were selected in the major league section of the 2025 Rule 5 Draft at the winter meetings in Orlando. That means pitcher Jose Rodríguez, shortstop Noah Miller, and others remain in the organization. A total of seven Dodgers were listed […]
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Many factors help make the Dodgers into this seemingly all-consuming juggernaut we see before ourselves at the present time, and it goes beyond purely the financial advantages they have, which is not to say we should dismiss them—having a lot more money than the majority of other teams is what allows the reigning back-to-back champs […]
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It’s not supposed to be this easy. When Shohei Ohtani signed with the Dodgers two offseasons ago, there was the expectation that the Dodgers would eventually win a Championship. Yes, the current run of success with Dave Roberts at the helm from 2016 to 2023 was largely the envy of baseball in all categories except […]
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The winter meetings are already in full swing, and the Dodgers have secured their first major splash of the offseason in former New York Mets closer Edwin Díaz. The Dodgers and Díaz agreed to a three-year, $69 million deal on Tuesday which will make him the highest paid closer per annual average value. Díaz is […]
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With the 2025 season now concluded, we’ll keep track of every transaction by the Dodgers for the entire offseason here, beginning with the advent of free agency on November 2 until the start of spring training. We will update this page throughout the offseason with every transaction, and links below to specific details about every […]
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The first two seasons of Shohei Ohtani’s 10-year deal with the Dodgers have gone swimmingly, with the team winning the World Series twice, Ohtani winning National League MVP twice, and now taking home another Associated Press male athlete of the year award. Associated Press announced the 2025 award on Tuesday, with Ohtani receiving 29 of […]
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The Los Angeles Dodgers in 2025 played the longest season in MLB history, starting their schedule on March 18 in Japan and ending it on November 1 in Canada while winning Game 7 of the World Series. Here we look back at the season by chronicling every single player who spent any time on the […]
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Dodgers catcher Will Smith will return to play for the United States in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, Team USA manager Mark DeRosa said on MLB Network on Tuesday morning. Smith was one of four players announced for Team USA on Tuesday, along with Phillies designated hitter Kyle Schwarber, Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson, and Brewers […]
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For the second offseason in a row, the Dodgers decided to swim in the deep end of the relief pitching pool. This time, it’s signing closer Edwin Díaz, per both Will Sammon and Katie Woo at The Athletic. It’s a three-year, $69 million contract for Díaz, per Jeff Passan of ESPN. Díaz had a 1.63 […]
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What constitutes a signing working out or not is open to different interpretations depending on who you talk to and who you’re talking about. Amidst a very busy offseason last year, one of the moves made by the Dodgers front office was to sign Hyeseong Kim from the KBO, committing to a three-year deal worth […]
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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and general manager Brandon Gomes spoke on Monday at the winter meetings, both in scrums with reporters and on MLB Network separately. Nothing super newsworthy, but here is a summary of the topics discussed. Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic last week floated the possibility of the Dodgers trading outfielder Teoscar Hernández, […]
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The Dodgers play the Mets on Wednesday, April 15, Jackie Robinson Day at Dodger Stadium, a game that will be exclusively televised by ESPN, the network announced today. This is the first of 30 exclusive weekday games on ESPN in 2026. ESPN was the exclusive home of ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ for 36 seasons, dating back […]
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Dustin May made his return to the mound after missing nearly two whole years due to elbow and esophageal surgeries, but his return proved to be underwhelming and frustrating, prompting a trade to the Boston Red Sox at the trade deadline. Prior to the beginning of the 2025 season, May had last pitched for the […]
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Jeff Kent, who played the final four seasons of his career with the Dodgers, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday night. He reacted to the news on a conference call, per Ronald Blum of Associated Press: “I hugged my wife after the the phone call had come in,” Kent said, […]
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The Contemporary Baseball Era Committee met on Sunday at the winter meetings in Orlando, trying to decide which players from an eight-person ballot would be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Only one —Jeff Kent — will be inducted in Cooperstown in July 2026, while Fernando Valenzuela and others fell short. Kent received […]
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J.P. Feyereisen reached the Jake Reed zone in 2025, a previous pitching acqusition finding his way back to the Dodgers on waivers after some time away, and only for a short time. After riding the up-and-down between Oklahoma City and the Dodgers, Feyereisen ended his 2024 off the 40-man roster and elected free agency. He […]
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The baseball winter meetings start on Sunday night in Orlando, in which the entire baseball world convenes, a period that often stokes the hot stove flames. We are already five weeks into the offseason, and the Dodgers have made several roster moves after winning the World Series. Clayton Kershaw retired. Michael Kopech, Michael Conforto, Kirby […]
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Michael Grove’s seven and a half years in the Dodgers organization was very much a portrait of a modern major league pitcher. But after shoulder surgery kept him out of action for all of 2025, his time with Los Angeles has ended. Grove had Tommy John surgery in 2017 while at West Virginia, but that […]
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The Dodgers brought back one of their 2025 champions in the form of Miguel Rojas earlier this week, and now, the Dodgers hope to do the same with another fan favorite. Where would the Dodgers be without Kiké Hernández over the last two seasons? Hernández spent the last two regular seasons serving as a utility […]
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Kyle Hurt has been on the cusp of getting some sort of run in the majors with the Dodgers, but sadly nominative determinism has spoiled most of the last two seasons. The right-hander out of USC, who came to the Dodgers along with Alex Vesia in the 2021 trade of Dylan Floro to the Marlins, […]
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It’s a challenging task to find a player who, in a very specific way, better represents the evolution of baseball, and particularly pitching, than Edgardo Henriquez. Not so long ago, a pitcher with his natural abilities would be seen as the jewel in the crown of a bullpen and someone whose production or lack thereof […]
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Freddie Freeman was born in California but both of his parents were from Ontario, Canada, and the first baseman has played twice for Canada in the World Baseball Classic. So it was only natural that Freeman teamed up with famous Canadian star Ryan Reynolds for charitable purposes, filming an ad raising money for the SickKids […]
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Esteury Ruiz began his 2025 season with the Athletics organization before being acquired by the Dodgers on April 2. He spent most of the season with the Triple-A Oklahoma City Comets but managed to find some time with the big league squad. A former top prospect with the San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers, Ruiz […]
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One of the biggest missions for the Dodgers offseason agenda included bringing back integral pieces within the clubhouse. For one final season, no. 72 is back in Dodger blue with one specific goal in mind. Miguel Rojas re-signed with the Dodgers on Wednesday to a one-year, $5.5 million deal, and the plan is to have […]
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One does not expect a backup catcher to become beloved by a fanbase. One especially does not expect the backup’s backup to become beloved to a fanbase, in record time no less, and then displace the backup catcher in terms of depth on the playoff roster. Dalton Rushing had pedigree. Ben Rortvedt had none and […]
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