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Former Catcher Kenley Jansen an Early Hit as Dodgers Reliever

A year ago, Dodgers minor leaguer Kenley Jansen had a few things in common with grunts in workplaces outside of baseball. He was struggling in a dead-end job. And when it came right down to it last July, Jansen thought his boss was a delusional kook. The Dodgers are owned by the McKooks, who do goofy things such as pay...

Eric Gagne Returns to the Dodgers

The best years of Eric Gagne's career in baseball were no doubt the seasons he spent as a Los Angeles Dodger. From 2002-04, Gagne was nearly untouchable as the Dodgers' closer, setting a record with 84 consecutive successfully converted save opportunities and winning the NL Cy Young in 2003. Since leaving Los Angeles,...

Joe Torre's Issues With Bullpen Management Rear Their Head Once Again

Once his Yankee bullpens moved beyond the push-button nature of the late-90s, Joe Torre always struggled to find the right combination of pitchers to get his team through games. He'd burn out guys he liked while letting others die on the vine from disuse, causing his usual placidity to take on a deer in the headlights...

Randy Wolf Latest Dodger Pitcher to DL

Let's see, a shoulder injury shut down Jason Schmidt for the season, an elbow sent Hong-Chi Kuo to the DL recently, and now, a bad shoulder has resulted in Randy Wolf becoming the latest Dodger pitcher to be sidelined. The boys in blue should be thanking their lucky stars that Brad Penny and Derek Lowe are pitching as well...

Jason Schmidt Officialy Done for the Year

I already told you that Jason Schmidt was going to have shoulder surgery, and that the surgery was putting his career in jeopardy. Now, the team has made it official that Schmidt is out for the season. Apparently there was a lot more going on with Schmidt than what was revealed in his MRI. The Dodgers had hoped that...