One of the central themes surrounding the Los Angeles Dodgers so far in 2024 is how they quickly go from scorching hot one day to ice cold the next, particularly on offense. Fortunately, the winning streak before Sunday’s 3-1 loss to the Blue Jays was one of the team’s best runs so far this season, keeping the club ahead of the pack in the National League West.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers announced on Thursday the acquisitions of lefty minor league pitcher Jackson Ferris and 18-year-old minor league outfielder Zyhir Hope from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for right-handed pitcher Yency Almonte and infielder Michael Busch.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers announced on Tuesday the additions of right-handed pitcher Nick Frasso, righty pitcher Landon Knack and catcher Hunter Feduccia to the organizational 40-man roster. The move prevents each player from being chosen by rival teams during this winter’s Rule 5 draft.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers seem to be all about the youth movement and indeed, if they are going to go far in the playoffs, it will be because of vital contributions from the multiple rookies on the squad.
The Dodgers front office chose this off-season to not go after any high profile free agents, or to go for any big name trades at the deadline. They chose instead to rely on their mix of rookies and veterans to get them through the season and into the playoffs. And even with all the injuries, so far so good.
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Although the news is not official at the time of this writing, it appears that the Los Angeles Dodgers will promote outfield prospect Jonny DeLuca to the big-league club in place of Trayce Thompson, who apparently suffered an oblique strain when he attempted to check a swing in Saturday night’s middle game against the Yankees.
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If you’re a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers, looking at the current starting pitching injuries and the depth chart throughout the organization is borderline scary. Headlining the injury list right now is a quintet of relatively big names in Walker Buehler, Julio Urias, Dustin May, Ryan Pepiot and Michael Grove, a group that could probably represent an entire rotation for a smaller market team.
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Relief pitching is a topic fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers take very seriously. We seemingly begin putting a hypothetical bullpen together from the days following the last contest of the World Series the whole way through the final Cactus League games of spring training. The days and weeks leading up to the trade deadline are especially exciting, as front-office boss Andrew Friedman and his crew have always been known to add an interesting piece or two for the stretch run of the season.
Although there have been quite a few players on the Dodgers who have had their share of ups and downs offensively so far during the young season, there’s one at the Triple-A level who’s been reaching base as much as ever.
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The season opening roster for the Double-A Tulsa Drillers has been finalized. The list features several top prospects within the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, including five players currently on the Dodgers 40-man major league roster.
Of the 28 players who have been assigned to Tulsa, 18 have previously played for the Drillers.
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With righty Tony Gonsolin likely to begin the season on the injured list with a left ankle sprain, the Los Angeles Dodgers will need to dip into their plentiful stockpile of young starting pitchers to round out their Opening Day rotation.
At the moment, it looks like the team will award the final rotation spot to either Ryan Pepiot or Michael Grove, both of whom made their MLB debuts for the club last year.
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