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MLB Free Agency: Landing Spots for Dodgers Position Players

Dec 11, 2020

Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Offseason, Opinions & Predictions

The World Series-champion Los Angeles Dodgers have a handful of long-time position players testing free agency this offseason such as Justin Turner, Joc Pederson, and Enrique Hernandez. With a loaded roster acr...

The Los Angeles Dodgers Never Wavered

Robbie Stratakos

Oct 29, 2020

Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

It happened: the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series. Years of postseason heartbreak and overall letdown dissipated on Tuesday night in Arlington, Texas. Last decade the Dodgers come up short in Octo...

Is This Season Different for the Los Angeles Dodgers?

Robbie Stratakos

Sep 29, 2020

Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

The Los Angeles Dodgers won 71.7 percent of their regular-season games, which would've been a franchise record had it been a 162-game season. Furthermore, they won the National League West for the eighth consec...

Unduly Expectations Have Been Placed on the Dodgers Starting Rotation

Robbie Stratakos

Jul 20, 2020

Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

Yes, the Los Angeles Dodgers are arguably the best team in the National League. Yes, they have a remarkably deep pitching staff. That means their starting rotation will be invincible, right? Incorrect, their ro...

The Best And Worst Trade of The Decade For The Los Angeles Dodgers

Quinn Allen

Mar 24, 2020

Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

The decade of the 2010s started out on the wrong foot for the Los Angeles Dodgers, failing to make the postseason in 2010, 2011, and 2012. But since 2013, LA has impressed, appearing in the playoffs in each of ...

Ranking How Badly Josh Donaldson Suitors Need His Services

Robbie Stratakos

Jan 6, 2020

Major League Baseball, Offseason, Opinions & Predictions

Josh Donaldson, 34, is arguably the best player left on the free agent market. The 2015 American League Most Valuable Player Award recipient has four teams on his tail and/or who have been repeatedly linked to ...

Los Angeles Dodgers: Rumored Betts-Price Trade Would Fill Two Voids

Robbie Stratakos

Jan 6, 2020

Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

The Los Angeles Dodgers need a starting pitcher and seem to want to make a splash on the position player market. How can they do both? Execute a trade with the payroll-embattled Boston Red Sox for Mookie Betts ...

This is a New Low for the Los Angeles Dodgers

Robbie Stratakos

Oct 15, 2019

Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

This is a new low for the Los Angeles Dodgers. They won the National League West by 21 games. They had the best record in the NL by nine games. They were the presumed favorite to win the NL, if not the World...

Advice to Dodgers GM Andrew Friedman

Joe Orsatti

May 1, 2018

Los Angeles Dodgers, Opinions & Predictions

The defending National League champions have an uphill battle to even get back to the post season, as three of their four starting infielders (as well as Yasiel Puig) have gone down with injuries over the first...

10 Ways to Spot a Hack Writer

Jeff J. Snider

Oct 9, 2017

Features, Los Angeles Dodgers, Opinions & Predictions, Postseason

In a classic episode of Seinfeld, Jerry's fellow comedian and "Dentist to the Stars" Tim Whatley (played by Bryan Cranston) converts to Judaism, and Jerry comes to believe that Tim did so just so he could make ...

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