The Dodgers’ financial flexibility and farm system put them in a unique position at this year’s trade deadline. Playoff expansion has left a slew of teams in contention and dramatically reduced the number of teams willing to be sellers at the deadline. That’s created a logjam of available players where asking prices on the trade […]
Can Dodgers avoid embarrassing sweep in Houston?
The Dodgers’ first two games in Houston couldn’t have gone much worse. In front of a playoff-type crowd at Minute Maid Park, Los Angeles has been shut out and blown a five-run lead to get walked off. Now they’ll send River Ryan to the mound for his second-career start in the final game of the […]
Dodgers could get pitching help even without move at trade deadline
The Dodgers on Friday open a three-game weekend series against the Astros, but the more important development for Los Angeles might be happening about 450 miles north in Oklahoma City. Both Walker Buehler and Ryan Brasier are with the Triple-A club according to broadcaster Alex Freedman. Buehler will make his first rehab start, while Brasier […]
Freddie Freeman scratched from Dodgers lineup vs. Astros
Freddie Freeman was originally in the Dodgers lineup for their Friday night game against the Astros, but he’s now been scratched and replaced at first base by Cavan Biggio. Teoscar Hernandez will replace Freeman in the No. 3 spot in the lineup. Freeman’s wife, Chelsea, on Thursday posted on Instagram that the Freemans three-year-old son […]
How did Clayton Kershaw do in his return to the Dodgers?
The last time Clayton Kershaw appeared in a regular season game for the Los Angeles Dodgers was on September 30th, 2023. The last time he did so at Dodger Stadium was one week prior, on September 23rd. Both starts came against the San Francisco Giants. It seems appropriate, then, that Kershaw’s first outing of the […]