NEWS/RUMORS Thread

RIP The Cobra.

https://x.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1939053265582215355?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

 

Wow. I still have a glove with his signature on it
.. ... I'm officially old.

 

Take it with a grain of salt ... D-Nation can be sketchy in my opinion...

Dodgers Notes: LA Makes Roster Move, Shohei Ohtani Next Start Revealed, Walker Buehler to LA?

https://dodgersnation.com/dodgers-n...art-revealed-walker-buehler-to-la/2025/06/27/

- Dodgers activated right-handed pitcher Luis Garcia ahead of Thursday’s series finale against the Colorado Rockies.

- ESPN analysts Jeff Passan and Kiley McDaniel recently came out with an article detailing 50 trade deadline candidates. The fact Buehler has been struggling coupled with a mutual option for next year made him a no-brainer inclusion on this list. They approximated Buehler’s chance of being traded at 35 percent.

 

From yesterday's game story in the LAT..............

Pitching injury updates
It’ll be a little while longer before the Dodgers get more pitching reinforcements from triple-A Oklahoma City.

On Friday night, Tyler Glasnow gave up five runs on seven hits in his second rehab outing, but more consequentially managed only 2 ⅓ innings, well short of the four-inning goal the Dodgers had targeted for his start. Because of that, Roberts said Glasnow will likely need at least two more rehab starts before returning to the majors. He has been out since April because of a shoulder problem.

Emmet Sheehan’s next start will come in triple A, Roberts said, even after the right-hander pitched six perfect innings with 13 strikeouts earlier this week. Sheehan returned from Tommy John surgery earlier this month with a solid four-inning start for the Dodgers, but was optioned ahead of this road trip to continue building up in Oklahoma City. Sheehan will be a candidate to return to the majors after his next outing, perhaps near the end of the Dodgers’ upcoming homestand.

Back in Los Angeles, Blake Snell (shoulder) and Blake Treinen (forearm) continued their progression of bullpen sessions on Saturday, and are getting closer to throwing live sessions against hitters. Roki Sasaki (shoulder) has also continued to play catch and, according to Roberts, is finally “feeling really good” almost two months into his IL stint.

 

Thought I recalled a legendary throwing contest before an All-Star game. This is one fan's recollection of that......

Despite that buildup of anticipation for the game, the highlight of the night for me, and many in attendance based on crowd reaction, came in the pregame warmups.

Dave Parker, Dave Winfield, and Ellis Valentine were taking turns fielding fly balls in right field, and then throwing to second and third bases to warm up. For those of you who remember seeing the manner in which those players threw baseballs on television, trust me when I tell you it was jaw-dropping in person. After a few rounds each, Parker took his final practice fly ball and unleashed a clothesline of a throw that hit the catcher’s glove at home plate on a fly. Winfield, not to be outdone, then did the same. Valentine followed suit after Winfield.

“It’s on” wasn’t an expression in 1977, but with the crowd alternating between cheering and gasping, and with the players exchanging competitive smirks and eyebrow raises at each other, they stayed out there for a few more minutes to keep the show going. Parker would field a fly ball in medium-deep right field and unleash a laser that hit the catcher on a fly. Again, Winfield and Valentine would do the same. They continued, taking turns, with each round increasing in competitiveness, intensity, and crowd involvement. It was one laser after another, each one coming out of the hand like a rocket, and each one hitting the catcher on a line at home plate.


With the AL team needing to take the field, the trio left the crowd feeling like we already got our money’s worth and with many of us asking incredulously “Is it possible that Ellis Valentine has a better arm than Dave Parker and Dave Winfield?” Many of us in attendance that night felt that was the case, believe it or not.

When the AL took the field for their pregame warmups, it didn’t take long for the straw to stir the drink. Never one to put his ego on the back seat, Reggie Jackson took the first practice fly ball hit to him in right field and unleashed a throw to home plate that hit AL catcher Carlton Fisk chest-high on a fly. Fisk received the throw, paused, then turned and stared into the NL dugout for what was probably only three or four seconds but seemed like 30. Reggie wouldn’t become “Mr. October” to Yankee fans for another four months, but he showed us all who he was that night in July.

 

The Parker passing got me thinking about great Dodger OF arms.

Duke, Mondesi, Reggie Smith, Puig, Bellinger and Pages. Never saw Furillo.

 

The Reading Rifle may have been the best of the lot. Many hits off the Ebbetts Field RF wall, if the hitter was inclined to stretch it to a double, wound about with them trotting back to the dugout after the out call at 2nd.
He was flat out incredible.
Could hit, too.

 

Saw that one in person, too.

 

As much it hurt my 9-year-old heart to lose to the A's in 74, I recall this great throw... and Marshall hanging Herb out to dry...

 

The Dodger way...

 

BOO
Austin should have been offered a coaching job or something so this didn't happen
gnats just got a certified spy capable of tipping tendencies and potentially causing problems in a series
and we'll be paying him to do it
had to be another way