Where The Dodger Dogs Are Always Grilled
The Dodgers announced on Wednesday that Tony Gonsolin was outrighted and selected free agency and Ben Rortvedt was claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds. Since there was no indication that Rortvedt had been designated for assignment, the Dodgers’ 40-man roster is now down to 39. A sixth round draft pick out of St. Mary’s […]
The 11-season run by Austin Barnes with the Dodgers ended when the veteran backstop was released in May. Dalton Rushing was ready in the wings, and the Dodgers were set on defending their World Series title by improving the team in any way they could. There was no room for sentimentality earlier in the season […]
The stove is sizzling and the temperature is rising. The offseason is officially here. The Dodgers now own the exclusive mantra as the two-time defending champions of baseball, and they won their most recent championship with a glaring issue that the Dodgers tried to mitigate in the postseason. The Dodgers’ 2025 bullpen was undoubtedly the […]
Tommy Edman was limited to just 97 games over the regular season, requiring two separate stints on the injured list as he dealt with right ankle inflammation and later a right ankle sprain. Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes told Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic that Edman will be undergoing right ankle surgery next week, with […]
Dave Roberts failed to get even a single vote for the 2025 National League Manager of the Year, and for the second straight season, Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy has been named the recipient of the award. Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona finished second in voting after coming out of a brief retirement, and Philadelphia […]
Andy Pages followed up a solid rookie campaign with a stellar sophomore season where he placed second on the team in home runs behind Shohei Ohtani. Despite a horrible postseason, he had his bright spots, including a season saving catch in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series. The Dodgers attempted to […]
In the Formula 1 world, “silly season” refers to the period—usually around the sport’s summer break—when rumors about drivers’ contracts and team plans for the next year start picking up more speed than a car going down a straight. In baseball, that period starts immediately after the last pitch of the World Series is thrown, […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball’s foremost authority on the Rookie of the Year award, didn’t exactly have a memorable campaign on the subject in 2025, but still found a way to sneak at least one player into the voting poll. Jack Dreyer received two top 5 votes in the National League, with Braves […]
Mookie Betts successfully navigated his first full season at a new, more challenging defensive position, while also having the worst offensive season of his Hall of Fame career. And he was candid about going through the many challenges of his season. In retrospect, getting sent home early from the season-opening trip to Tokyo and not […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]