Category Archives: Pro Baseball

Dodgers Notes: 5/10/25

  By Joe Torosian (Those Deferred BenchWarmers have been optioned to Oklahoma City.) “Joe T., do you still hate the Dodgers?” So, I sat through the condensed replay of the Dodgers’ 14-11 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks late last night, and these thoughts came to me.

Athletics Notes: 5/9/25

By Tim Byrnes Attitudes are changing in the hearts of Athletics fans. They are starting to care again.

Dodgers Notes: 5/5/25

By Those Deferred BenchWarmers The Dodgers stretched their winning streak to seven games before faltering 4-3 in the series finale against the Braves. The top 5 hitters produced well, the bullpen was stellar, and the starters did their job. We’re still not in panic mode, but more production and consistency from the bottom four guys […]

Athletics Notes: 5/5/2025

By Tim Byrnes It should have been a sweep! The Athletics took Sunday’s rubber game 3-2 and secured their fourth consecutive series with an efficient win over the Miami Marlins.

Dodgers Notes: 5/2/2025

By Those Deferred BenchWarmers The Dodgers are back on track, and just in time for a ten game road trip. Encouraging starts (in the MLB and rehab) by Tony Gonsolin and Clayton Kershaw are good news given the injury troubles in the rotation, and the bats came alive against Miami to the tune of 36 […]

Athletics Notes: 5/2/2025

By Tim Byrnes Let us take a second to recognize where the A’s are today. Enjoy the view for a second, shall we?

Athletics Notes: 4/28/2025

By Tim Byrnes Athletics Notes: Momentum is building for the Athletics as they concluded their homestand 4-2 with their second series win in a row.

Dodgers Notes: 4/28/25

By Those Deferred BenchWarmers Heading into the weekend, we mentioned that the Dodger Regular Season would be one-sixth of the way over after Saturday’s game. To make it more confusing, we are halfway to the evaluation point that Andrew Friedman mentioned in a recent interview (he talked about the real evaluations starting around a third […]

Athletics Notes: 4/25/2025

By Tim Byrnes Down 3-2 in the bottom of the 9th, the A’s used an error and timely hitting to score twice, win the game(4-3), and the series(2-1) from the AL West leading Texas Rangers.

Athletics Notes: 4/22/2025

By Tim Byrnes Athletics Notes: We usually discuss the previous series first, but just in: *Per ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez, 2024 #4 overall MLB Draft choice first baseman Nick Kurtz has been informed he will be activated in time for Wednesday’s Athletics game.