What Can the Dodgers Do This Offseason?

In the last of my off-season previews, I look at potential trade targets. The Dodgers' minor-league system is rich with low-level pitching and MLB-average (at best) outfielders. Teams will be interested in pitching, but the Dodgers could (and should) go a different direction -- trading veterans.Will they? Probably not. But there are some pieces on the market the team could certainly...

The Dodgers, believe it or not, could be in the market for a starting pitcher this off-season. It depends on two things: whether Hiroki Kuroda re-signs and if they don't want to rely on Nathan Eovaldi to be the team's fifth starter. With Rubby De La Rosa likely out for the majority of the season, a veteran could be brought in to keep Eovaldi's innings down -- if...

Major League Baseball and embattled Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt have agreed to a unique structure for the auction of one of the game's most storied franchises. Under a deal hammered out during two weeks of intense negotiations last month, the league will allow McCourt and his advisers to solicit separate bids for the team and the future media rights to its games...

My first reaction to Frank McCourt finally agreeing to sell the Dodgers was well, elation. I almost crashed my car! Later on I started to realize…crap, will they be able to sign anyone? Does anybody remember when Frank McCourt was buying the Dodgers? Dan Evans had negotiated a contract with Vladimir Guerro to come to the Dodgers for about 5-6 years but because of the selling...

Signed free agent LF-R Juan Rivera. [11/3] What baffles me about this move isn’t that the Dodgers re-signed Juan Rivera, but that the Dodgers re-signed Juan Rivera for $4.5 million (technically $4 million with a $500,000 buyout of his 2013 team option, which brings the total to $4.5 million in guaranteed cash). Granted, the Dodgers found out last season what can happen when...

Frank McCourt, the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has finally agreed to sell the MLB franchise after months of arguing with the league over the future of the team. The Dodgers and MLB announced on Nov 1 that the club and its media rights will be sold via a court-supervised process which will be managed by the Blackstone Group LP. There hasn’t been any time frame or deadline...

Here is the compiled list of all 161 Dodgers games this season. The list is sorted by the games the Dodgers were the largest favorites in. The game in which the Dodgers were the biggest favorites was an August 13th game at Dodger Stadium against the Houston Astros. Wandy Rodriguez was on the mound for the Astros and Clayton Kershaw for the Dodgers. The Dodgers were 67.213% favorites...

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Matt Kemp, Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen have been named best Dodgers player, pitcher and breakout performer of 2011, respectively, as selected by MLB.com.

... Or not enough respect!? I have taken all the Vegas odds along with empirical 2011 results to tally up which MLB starting pitchers helped their team garner better than expected results. The methodology was to take the win percentage of the games each starting pitcher pitched in, then comparing that to the expected win percentage of those same games based on the win expectancy...