Los Angeles Dodgers

Kenley Jansen may be out as the Los Angeles Dodgers closer, per comments from team manager Dave Roberts after the team’s playoff matchup against the San Diego Padres. Per ESPN, the manager discussed his pitcher’s performance following his squad’s 6-5 win in Game 2 of the National League Division Series. “There wasn’t a conversation. I […]

San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado lashed out at Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brusdar Graterol after he celebrated a defensive play that occurred in the seventh inning of Game 2 in the playoff series between the two teams, according to a report from TMZ. As the Padres trailed by just one point with a […]

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly was suspended for eight games earlier this week after throwing pitches that nearly hit a couple of Houston Astros players. While most of the baseball world has been up in arms over the length of the suspension, Bleacher Report‘s Zachary Rymer wrote on Wednesday that while the punishment was […]

Major League Baseball today announced an eight-game suspension for Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly, ESPN reported. The punishment comes the day after the 32-year-old reliever helped spark a bench-clearing confrontation between his club and the Houston Astros by throwing erratically at batters. In the sixth inning of a contest that the Dodgers would go […]

Mookie Betts could be staying in Los Angeles for the long term, with rumors indicating that the Dodgers are close to locking down the All-Star outfielder with a “monster” extension that would be among the largest in baseball history. As Yahoo Sports reported, the team is believed to be ironing out the details of a […]

Pitcher Clayton Kershaw appeared alongside several of his L.A. Dodgers teammates in an outreach video to raise awareness for racial equality and the Black Lives Matter movement, The Athletic reported. The video was made following Kershaw’s Zoom call with several African American community leaders across the Los Angeles area. “For centuries, the Black community has […]

Yasiel Puig thought he had found himself a new team in the Atlanta Braves earlier this week, but it turns out the outfielder is still looking for a new home after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Puig announced the news on his Instagram and Twitter pages, offering an apology to his fans in […]

Former Boston Red Sox star Manny Ramirez won’t be coming out of retirement to play for Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) any time soon. The MLB Network’s Jon Heyman posted on Twitter on Wednesday that a contract for Ramirez from the Taiwan League hasn’t “materialized.” Heyman added the former slugger hasn’t given up hope […]

Alyssa Milano, 47, sported a sultry look in her latest Instagram share in which she proudly displayed her love for America’s pastime of baseball and her favorite team. As professional baseball, for the moment, has been put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, Alyssa shared her post as a love letter to the sport. […]

Retired broadcaster Vin Scully, best known for his time with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has been hospitalized after a fall at his home on Tuesday afternoon, TMZ reported. According to a Dodgers spokesperson who spoke to TMZ, the 92-year-old will soon be released and is in good spirits, which is reflected in the legendary sportscaster’s […]

The Mookie Betts and David Price trade between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers could finally become official later today. The deal, first reported on Tuesday, had hit a snag that meant the teams were going to have to work out new terms or decide to settle on the potentially damaged goods. […]

The Mookie Betts trade saga took another turn on Thursday morning, as reports began circulating that the deal between the Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins is not yet complete. At issue is the medical report for one of the players being sent to Boston. It appears, as Chris Cotillo pointed out […]

As if the Boston Redsox sending Mookie Betts and David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers wasn’t big enough news for a Tuesday night in February, another blockbuster trade has just materialized. In what appears to be a direct reaction to the Dodgers adding a high-priced slugger and an expensive starting pitcher, Joc Pederson is […]

In the most stunning, blockbuster trade of the past several years in Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox have reportedly sent 2018 American League MVP outfielder Mookie Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers, in a deal that also ships lefty hurler David Price to Chavez Ravine. The shocking move was reported by ESPN correspondent […]

With his contract expiring at the end of the 2020 MLB season, rumors that Boston Red Sox four-time All-Star outfielder Mookie Betts will be traded before the season begins have circulated incessantly throughout the offseason. The latest, as The Inquisitr reported, claims that the St. Louis Cardinals will be “aggressive” in their pursuit of Betts. […]

With Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts heading into the final year of his contract, the 2018 American League MVP has been surrounded by a swirl of rumors that he is on the trading block. One of the most popular Betts trade rumors alleges that the 27-year-old, four-time All Star would be packaged with high-priced […]

New rumors suggest that the Los Angeles Dodgers are now more inclined to make a trade for Boston Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts than they are for another player that has long been linked to the team, Cleveland Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor. In a report published Thursday by MLB.com, Jon Paul Morosi wrote that […]

Despite capturing seven straight National League West Division titles, winning 302 games over the last three seasons, and making World Series appearances in 2017 and 2018, the Los Angeles Dodgers have not won a Major League championship since 1988. That’s the 10th-longest current World Series drought by any of the 30 Major League Baseball teams. […]

Two days after reports indicated that the New York Yankees were getting ready to unleash a “record setting” offer in hopes of snaring free agent pitcher Gerrit Cole, a new report says that there is a “strong likelihood” that he will be under contract with one of five teams — possibly the Yankees — before […]

After a meeting between free agent pitcher Gerrit Cole and New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman in California this week, the 27-time World Series champions have made signing the former Houston Astros righty — who led the American League with a 2.50 ERA in 2019 — their “total focus,” according to a top Major […]

The New York Yankees are “extremely interested” in signing top free agent pitcher Gerrit Cole, according to a report by Elite Sports New York. At the same time, the team expects that Cole will opt to return home to southern California, where the Los Angeles Angels are reportedly prepared to open up their checkbook to […]

World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg, one of the most sought after free agents on the Major League Baseball market this offseason, set off speculation that he may land with a southern California club when he was spotted at a Los Angeles Clippers basketball game on Friday evening. According to the Talk Nats Twitter account, Strasburg […]

Last week, rumors surfaced that former Washington Nationals third baseman Anthony Rendon — widely viewed as the top position player on the free-agent market this offseason — was headed to the Los Angeles Dodgers. That was when ESPN reporter Jeff Passan speculated that the Dodgers may ink Rendon to a $200 million deal. Those rumors […]

The annual Major League Baseball General Managers meetings open on Monday in Scottsdale, Arizona, with top free-agent pitcher Gerrit Cole expected to be the hottest topic of conversation among the baseball executives. But while experts believe that Cole will sign with one of two southern California clubs — either the Angels or Dodgers — at […]

Washington Nationals free-agent third baseman Anthony Rendon could sign with the team that the Nats vanquished in the NL Division Series this year, the Los Angeles Dodgers — at least according to veteran ESPN Major League Baseball correspondent Jeff Passan. The reporter made the prediction on a Monday ESPN podcast, as reported by Dodgers Nation. […]

After winning Game 5 of the 2019 World Series against the Washington Nationals, Gerrit Cole has likely started his final game for the Houston Astros. The 29-year-old right-handed fireballer becomes a free agent after the series wraps up. According to Dodgers Nation, Cole will command a record contact for a pitcher on the open market. […]

The Washington Nationals are looking to pull off an upset that was considered unthinkable after free agency disappointment as they head to Los Angeles with the opportunity to eliminate the 106-win Dodgers. The Dodgers have been the runaway leaders of the National League over the entire season, winning their division by 21 games and securing […]

After falling to a dominating performance by Washington pitcher Stephen Strasburg and the Nationals bullpen — which on this occasion included the staff’s other ace starter Max Scherzer, per Baseball Reference — the Los Angeles Dodgers enter Game 3 of the National League Division Series all tied up at 1-1. That means the Dodgers face […]

The two best teams in the National League, as determined by their win-loss records, square off in the deciding game of a three-game series when NL West leaders the Los Angeles Dodgers face the East-leading Atlanta Braves in what is both a likely preview of the upcoming NL playoffs, and a rematch of last season’s […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers continue to cruise toward what would be their seventh straight National League West championship, per Baseball Reference, and ninth in the last 12 seasons. The team finishes out a four-game series against the disappointing Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday, in a day game that will live stream on YouTube for the first […]

The two teams that contested the 2018 World Series have gone in vastly different directions since that series wrapped up, with the Boston Red Sox vanquishing the Los Angeles Dodgers on five games to win their fourth World Series in the last 15 seasons. For the Dodgers, the defeat was their second straight in a […]

As fans around the world celebrated another opening day for Major League Baseball on Thursday, the Los Angeles Dodgers were being told that their offer of a moment of silence at a game to honor a fan who was struck and killed by a foul ball was being turned down. According to a report from […]

Bryce Harper will now become a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, on a $330 million contract that will last 13 years with no opt-out clauses, meaning he will likely play the remainder of his career in, as one commentator put it, “in a city his family didn’t want him to, and he doesn’t love,” as […]

Bryce Harper reportedly agreed to a blockbuster contract with the Phillies that will keep him in Philadelphia for 13 years — until the age of 39 and likely the remainder of his career, as The Inquisitr reported. A number of baseball prognosticators, who were all but certain that Harper would wind up on the west […]

Contradicting reports that the Philadelphia Phillies continue to offer free agent superstar Bryce Harper more cash than any other team now competing for Harper’s services, one former Major League general manager said on Thursday morning that — according to his sources inside the MLB — the Phillies have not made the highest offer to Harper. […]

If you don’t have your scorecard, you may be completely lost in the entire Bryce Harper sweepstakes, and it is easy to understand why. The Philadelphia Phillies appeared primed and ready to sign the MLB free agent, but things keep on changing and rumors keep swirling. The San Francisco Giants jumped into the mix as […]

The race for Bryce Harper has a new frontrunner. After weeks with the Philadelphia Phillies reportedly in the driver’s seat to land the 26-year-old outfielder, the Los Angeles Dodgers have surged into contention and are now considered the odds-on favorite to sign Harper. The sports betting website OddsShark on Wednesday released updated odds on where […]

As recently as this past weekend, when Philadelphia Phillies owner John Middleton flew to Las Vegas in his private plane to meet with big-name free agent Bryce Harper, as MLB Trade Rumors reported, the Phillies were generally considered the frontrunners to seal a deal with the six-time All Star who at age 26 is testing […]

Each and every single day, fans wake up and the Bryce Harper sweepstakes continue as he has yet to officially sign with a team. There are plenty of rumors swirling around and three teams that are still in the chase, but could another one jump into the mix? Even though a lot of different news […]

Bryce Harper has been the focal point and centerpiece for Major League Baseball for weeks and months. After Manny Machado signed a record-breaking deal with the San Diego Padres, the spotlight has been focused primarily on Harper as he chooses between multiple teams. While the extended contract talks have started to bore a number of […]

Update: contrary to the report, Harper has reportedly signed with the Philadelphia Phillies, per a new Inquisitr story. As reports surfaced on Wednesday that free agent, six-time All Star Bryce Harper met on Tuesday with the top brass of the San Francisco Giants, as The Inquisitr reported, a new and as of yet unconfirmed report […]

Bryce Harper, the six-time All Star free agent outfielder, remains a free agent even as all 30 Major League teams approach the end of their first week of spring training games. As The Inquisitr has reported, a large part of the reason why appears to be Harper’s reluctance to sign with the team that has […]

Just when you thought things were finally winding down in the chase for free agent Bryce Harper, the entire affair just became even more confusing. On Monday morning, the Los Angeles Dodgers joined the fray — right when it had been whittled down to the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers. Now, the Dodgers and […]

As the Bryce Harper free agent saga approached the middle of its 18th week on Tuesday, reports have emerged that the Los Angeles Dodgers may be the 26-year-old, six-time All Star’s preferred landing spot, as a column in The Los Angeles Times indicated on Monday. But new rumors have offered a possible explanation for Harper’s […]

With the Los Angeles Dodgers suddenly entering the Bryce Harper free agent sweepstakes, as The Inquisitr reported, the Philadelphia Phillies have apparently seen enough from Harper and will withdraw their offer to the 26-year-old six-time All-Star if he doesn’t accept the deal by Tuesday afternoon. At least, that is the story according to the controversial […]

Free agent Bryce Harper still has a number of options on the table with less than a month to go until the regular MLB season starts. At the end of last week, it was just the San Diego Padres, the San Francisco Giants, and favorites the Philadelphia Phillies still in the running after the Washington […]

A wrench was thrown into the Bryce Harper free agency sweepstakes late Sunday night, with the news from the MLB website’s Jesse Sanchez that Harper had met in Las Vegas with representatives of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. The Dodgers are said to be interested in Harper on a shorter-term deal, one that would not […]

By the end of last week, it seemed that just three teams were still looking to bag free agent Bryce Harper: the Philadelphia Phillies, the San Francisco Giants, and the San Diego Padres. Over the weekend, Phillies owner John Middleton’s plane was spotted in Las Vegas, Harper’s hometown, presumably to see what it would take […]

If you haven’t been following along with the Bryce Harper saga in Major League Baseball, you’ve missed out on a lot of drama and quite a bit of confusion. As reported by Inquisitr, some have felt that the ordeal has become “boring,” but the Los Angeles Dodgers may have brought the excitement back. Them jumping […]

Just when you thought you knew what was going on in the Bryce Harper sweepstakes, a new week brings about yet another curveball. Over the weekend, it seemed almost definite that the Philadelphia Phillies had jumped out to the front of the pack — and that a deal could be reached by Tuesday. Now, an […]