Where The Dodger Dogs Are Always Grilled
If one recalls the halycon days of September 19, 2024, Shohei Ohtani established the first 50/50 club with aplomb against the Miami Marlins at the sociological nightmare that is loanDepot Park. One might recall that a scrum broke out where the historic home run ball landed, and, to settle that dispute in the most American […]
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To understand Roki Sasaki’s rookie campaign, one must understand the notion of wabi sabi (embracing the beauty of imperfection), which was first popularized to American audiences through the seminal animated hit King of the Hill. As someone who followed Sasaki for two years before he came to the United States, I had a single thought […]
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After spending the past seven seasons in the Atlanta Braves minor league system, Justin Dean got his first taste of Major League Baseball with the Dodgers in 2025, primarily serving as a late-game defensive replacement. Dean spent the majority of the 2024 season with the Double-A Mississippi Braves while also spending 25 games with Triple-A […]
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We have reached the most stagnant part of the offseason, where few moves of note have taken place over the past week with rumors remaining silent. With that in mind, this morning’s notes will be rather short and sweet. With 2025 ending in just four days, we as fans can appreciate all the good, the […]
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When we last left off with Bobby Miller in 2024, here was his prognosis for the coming year at True Blue LA: …Bobby Miller finds himself at a crossroads in his career. Whether [2024] was an aberration or the new normal is entirely up to him. Fixing his fastball has to be the top priority. […]
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A major league baseball regular season lasts 186 days, and sometimes longer like when a team starts the season overseas, for instance. Add in spring training, there are seven and a half months during which teams are always looking for ways to upgrade their roster. Not every transaction ends up notable, but rather represent a […]
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Make a list of all the reasons why the Dodger bullpen was not what any of us envisioned at the start of last season, and right at or near the top, you’ll find the absence of Evan Phillips. This bullpen’s most reliable player since he broke out in 2022, Phillips, saw basically his entire 2025 […]
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Hopefully everyone reading had a very Merry Christmas. Was the Dodgers adding a star free agent this week on your wish list? If so, well, I’m sorry to say that Santa Claus didn’t consider your requests with much enthusiasm— or attention for that matter. The Dodgers have made two signings of note so far this […]
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At the start of the 2025 season, Will Klein was toiling in Triple-A with the Seattle Mariners, but he ended it by being a saving grace for the Dodgers with a legendary Game 3 performance in the World Series. Klein made his big league debut in 2024 with the Kansas City Royals, later being packaged […]
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Switch-hitting Alex Freeland made his way to the majors in 2025, which qualifies this as a successful season for the 23-year-old shortstop. Freeland was called up to the Dodgers on July 29, the club’s second draft pick from 2022 to reach the majors. Freeland, a third-round pick that year out of Central Florida, was preceded […]
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Just because the offseason has been relatively slow for the Dodgers compared to the past two offseasons, that doesn’t mean the team doesn’t possess an unruly and tyrannical force upon baseball. Edwin Díaz has been the only major splurge this offseason as a needs to address the Dodgers’ bullpen issues, but when it comes to […]
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Dalton Rushing got his chance to earn some time in the big leagues in 2025, serving as the understudy to Will Smith after the Dodgers released Austin Barnes and platooning with Ben Rortvedt while Smith dealt with a hand injury. Rushing was ranked as the Dodgers’ no. 1 prospect entering the 2025 season, and it […]
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As a 23-year-old in 2023, Emmet Sheehan made a statement while pitching for the Dodgers with an impressive MLB debut, no-hitting the San Francisco Giants for six innings in June. He finished that season with a 4.92 ERA, but started 2024 on the injured list with right forearm inflammation before eventually undergoing Tommy John surgery. […]
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Once again, we are on holiday autopilot, which means that barring the unexpected, it should be a very quiet week. Although, Munnetaka Murakami signed with the Chicago White Sox on a prove-it, two-year, $34 million deal on Sunday. This essay consists of a bunch of card-and-ball-related stubs that would be too short to merit their […]
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For those needing a dramatis personae, or those who mistook Chris Stratton for Andrew Heaney (oops), Stratton is a journeyman pitcher who was drafted by and debuted with the San Francisco Giants before bouncing around the league. Stratton broke into the league as a six-pitch starter, but shifted to the bullpen once joining the Pittsburgh Pirates organization in […]
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Hunter Feduccia in 2025 finally got his chance at extended major league time, but it took getting traded from the Dodgers for the opportunity. The 12th-round pick in 2018 out of LSU got one brief run with the Dodgers this April, called up for six games as Freddie Freeman finished off his early-season injured-list stint. […]
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The baseball world isn’t used to players appearing with widely-known influencers on streaming platforms, but Mookie Betts was handed the opportunity for fans to get to know a bit more about him. Betts appeared on a live stream with Adin Ross and N3on, two controversial streamers who operate on Kick, and they discussed whether hitting […]
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Matt Sauer got the chance to play for his hometown team, appearing in 10 games for the Dodgers and even making a start while pitchers such as Tyler Glasnow, Clayton Kershaw and Blake Snell were all on the injured list. A native of Santa Maria and a former second round pick in 2017 by the […]
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Nick Frasso returned from shoulder and hip surgeries that wiped out his 2024 season for a full 2025, but he struggled in Triple-A to end his time with the Dodgers. Acquired from the Blue Jays in the Mitch White trade in 2022, the 6’5 Frasso was ranked the 79th-best prospect in baseball by Baseball Prospectus […]
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In the last week or so the Dodgers have signed a trio of players to minor league contracts, per the MLB.com transaction logs. Nick Frasso returning after getting non-tendered was already reported, but a couple others have returned as well — catcher Chuckie Robinson and pitcher Carlos Duran. Robinson had a busy year transactionally, spending […]
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The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series for the second year in a row, and did so with the highest-paid team in Major League Baseball history. The Dodgers’ payroll in 2025 for competitive balance tax purposes was $417.3 million, per Ronald Blum at Associated Press, which resulted in a record-setting luxury tax levy of […]
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Clayton Kershaw has ridden off into the sunset as an unlikely back-to-back champion. Normally, athletes who linger in their respective sports do not receive the fairytale ending they were promised as children. As players have started to announce whether they will participate in the World Baseball Classic, while sifting through old essays for follow-up, I […]
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Chris Taylor will always be remembered for his rise to postseason hero after he was famously traded from the Seattle Mariners to the Dodgers in June 2016 for pitcher Zach Lee. The move revitalized his swing and career as he became a super-utility star and multi-time World Series champion with the Dodgers. After a decade […]
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LOS ANGELES – A full postseason share for the Dodgers, who won the World Series for a second straight season, is worth $484,747.57 in 2025, part of a total $128.2 million player pool for the postseason, a source confirmed to True Blue LA. Players’ share of the postseason pool is determined by gate receipts from […]
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In what was the final season of his historic career, Clayton Kershaw gave Dodgers fans one last hurrah as he ended his career as a three-time champion and one of the greatest pitchers in franchise history. Kershaw played a minor role in helping the Dodgers maintain their supremacy in the NL West in 2024, making […]
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