Archive for Dodgers

With the first week of spring training out of the way, Ken Griffey Junior returned home to his former stomping grounds while the Orioles locked up the face of their franchise through 2013. All that, and more, in this week’s edition of Lost in Transactions.

The week of Feb. 15 featured a number of notable events in baseball history. Richard looks back at several.

I’ve generally been praising the Dodgers for not bidding against themselves in the Manny Ramirez derby, but as Ken Davidoff notes, they’re pretty much out of maneuvering room: This has not quite been Scott Boras’ finest week, but give the man credit. He can run a free agency like no other agent out there. Remember […]

Yesterday it was Jeff Weaver, today it’s Eric Milton. It’s like the Dodgers are going out of their way to sign guys I’ve seen give up ten runs and fifteen hits in a single outing.

If you would have asked me three months ago whether it would more likely that Manny Ramirez or Jeff Weaver had a job come mid-February, I would not have bet on Jeff Weaver. Of course, I would have lost that bet.

Lots of moves occurred this past week: the Chicago Cubs dumped off two pitchers while the Philadelphia Phillies locked up Ryan Howard for three years.

First he has a two-year, $40 million option, but he doesn’t want it picked up. Then he gets a two-year $45 million offer, and doesn’t answer the phone. Then he gets a one-year, $25 million offer, and rejects it: Manny Ramirez wasted no time rejecting the Dodgers’ latest offer, a one-year, $25-million proposal that was […]

Andruw Jones is about to be released. I wouldn’t bet my belly button lint that the Braves won’t sign him to a veteran minimum deal within the next week or so.

It’s bad enough that the Braves have been given the baseball equivalent of an atomic wedgie by anyone they’ve tried to sign this winter, but now they’ve got out of town writers eyeing Braves’ players like they’re the 1958 Kansas City A’s or something: You’ve heard this story from the Dodgers and Angels in many […]

In this corner, you have a Jayson Stark report in which an anonymous source claims that the Dodgers have called Adam Dunn’s agent either because they’ve moved on from all of the Manny drama, or because they want to pressure Ramirez. In this corner, you have a Bill Shaikin report in which Adam Dunn — […]