Yes, it’s the New Year’s gift we’ve all been hoping for, but it does not come cheap. According to Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, the Dodgers have agreed to pick up ALL of Jones’ remaining salary, but will defer it to future years. Jon Heyman at Sports Illustrated is reporting this will save the Dodgers $12 [...]

According to TJ Simers at the Los Angeles Times and confirmed by Yahoo! Sports, that’s a scenario that the Dodgers are exploring with Jones’ agent, potentially through a deferred buyout or maybe a jinky contract extension moving the money owed to future years. Along with every other Dodger fan with a pulse, a contract buyout [...]

I was going to write a long diatribe about this, but seeing that our friends over at Sons of Steve Garvey covered this atrocity already, I’ll let a brief snippet from them speak for me: Dodger fans worldwide could hardly contain their unbridled elation following the blockbuster news that Dodger GM Ned Colletti, having missed [...]

Is it time to say goodbye to Man-Ram and hello to Adam Dunn? The more I think about this, the more I like the move. While it’s impossible to argue with the production, excitement and enthusiasm that Manny brought to the Dodgers last season, he comes with a certain amount of baggage. Like Terrell Owens, [...]

Ouch.  Chad Billingsley slipped on an icy step on Saturday, fracturing his fibula.  Bills is supposed to be good to go by Spring Training.  I’m actually a little more worried about how he handles this mentally.  Chad’s a big guy at 6′ 10″ and he uses that left leg to push off during his throwing [...]