In a clubhouse filled with superstars earning nine-figure contracts, the most indispensable player for the Los Angeles Dodgers this season might be the one making close to the league minimum. While Shohei Ohtani commands headlines and Freddie Freeman keeps adding to his offensive legacy, it’s 24-year-old Andy Pages who is quietly shouldering a huge share of the offensive load.
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The anticipation surrounding Shohei Ohtani‘s first spring training appearance for the Los Angeles Dodgers continues to build at Camelback Ranch in Arizona. While he has yet to appear in a Cactus League game or face live batters on the mound, that’s about to change — at least on the hitting side.
The Los Angeles Dodgers enter the 2025 season with what many consider one of the most talented MLB rosters assembled in decades. There already seems to be a target on their backs across the league after front-office boss Andrew Friedman spared no punches this winter by filling nearly every gap on the player roster.
As many pundits have debated, Friedman’s spending may not be a result of the Dodgers flexing their financial muscles as much as other teams not willing to invest their resources in top talent.
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After an intense bidding war that went into the late hours of Saturday night, Freddie Freeman’s 2024 World Series walk-off grand slam baseball sold at SCP Auctions for $1.56 million.
This ball is the third-most valuable baseball ever, surpassing Aaron Judge’s 62nd home run ball in 2022. “We are so honored to have handled one of the most important artifacts in World Series history, dating back to 1903,” SCP Auctions President David Kohler said.
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Everything in the 2024 World Series followed a perfect script for the Los Angeles Dodgers until the seventh inning of Game 2 on Saturday night when superstar Shohei Ohtani slid into second base in a steal attempt, clearly injuring his left shoulder in the process.
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After an ugly stretch involving the club’s worst losing streak in recent years, the Los Angeles Dodgers have won five of their last six games thanks to some timely hitting and solid pitching against the Mets and Rockies.
Although the club’s current offensive output hasn’t been anywhere near the numbers it produced over the first several weeks of the season, the team seems to be doing just enough to put themselves in the winning column, albeit against some of the worst teams in the league.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers found a bit of redemption Sunday by avoiding a sweep against the New York Mets in what could have been one of the worst homestands in recent years.
The redemption wasn’t so much about getting revenge against the Mets as it was reassuring themselves just how capable they were of playing exceptional baseball.
Although the 2024 MLB regular season begins on March 28 for most teams, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres will get a head start on this year’s campaign under the world microscope with a series in Seoul on March 20 and 21.
This will be an interesting matchup, as the Dodgers went full-in to land Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and others, while the Padres dealt superstar Juan Soto to the Yankees, seemingly to avoid a payroll crunch.
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After failing to cash in on several critical scoring opportunities in Saturday’s middle game, the Los Angeles Dodgers came up big in the finale on Sunday to defeat the Boston Red Sox 7-4 and win the weekend series two games to one.
MVP candidates Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman both had three hits apiece for the Dodgers, who moved to 80-49 and lead the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West by 12-1/2 games pending the results of Sunday’s later games.
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Compared to previous years, the beginning of the upcoming 2023 campaign will be a lot different for the Los Angeles Dodgers because of the uncertainty of which players will see the most regular playing time. Last year, we saw players like Trea Turner and Justin Turner — who have both departed the organization — handle the everyday defensive duties at shortstop and third base, respectively.
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