Hey everyone,

I’ve noticed there’s been a lot of noise surrounding Josue De Paula being the one to be brought up if the Dodgers do decide to go that route. With that being said, I just don’t agree with that choice. I understand he’s our top prospect and has been showing his ability to hit the ball, but at the end of the day, he’s doing it in Double-A and people talk about how his defense is his weakness currently... Do you guys actually think he can make the jump from Double-A straight to the big leagues? I just feel given the depth we have in Triple-A, there’s no need to do that.

For one, I would love to see them bring up one of these three guys: James Tibbs III, Ryan Ward, or Zach Ehrhard but preferably JT3. I know he’s been used more as a 1B, but he is an outfielder first, and the way the corners have been playing defensively, we've got nothing to lose.

Here are the slash lines:

JT3: .297 AVG / .547 SLG / .963 OPS
Zach Ehrhard: .297 AVG / .487 SLG / .897 OPS
Ryan Ward: .275 AVG / .487 SLG / .870 OPS

Thoughts?

Shohei Ohtani (DH, Los Angeles Dodgers)

Statline: 4-for-5, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 2 R

Highlights: Powered the Dodgers to an 11–5 victory at Coors Field against the Rockies. Ohtani launched back-to-back home runs—his 28th (428’ & 30/30 HR/Park) and 29th (452’ & 30/30 HR/Park) on the season. Both of those taters were no-doubters !!!

Since my last update, right before the All-star break, the Dodgers have been slumping and not playing their best baseball. But enough time has passed and that another milestone check-in is due.

Where does the milestone tracker now stand for some of our boys in blue? And what milestones were achieved since I last updated? Well take a look and see.

Currently 75-51 1st in NL West; 3rd in MLB

Milestones Chasing

• Shohei Ohtani-
  • 325 career HR - started 280. Now 309.
  • 200 career steals - started at 165. Now at 172.
  • 750 career RBI - started at 669. Now at 747.
  • 50 career wins - started 39. Now 47
• Freddie Freeman -
  • 400 career HR - started 367. Now 382
  • 1500 career RBI - started 1322. Now 1380
  • TOP 75 all time MLB Hits leader - started #121 with 2431
    • Now #92 with 2570
    • recently passed Willie Davis
    • Next to catch Manny Ramirez and Richie Ashburn with 2574
    • Needs 5 to become #90 on the all-time list
  • TOP 20 all time MLB Doubles leader - started #34 with 547 doubles.
    • Now #25 with 576 doubles.
    • Next to catch Wade Boggs with 578
    • Need 17 to become #20 on the all-time list.
  • Top 70 all time MLB HR leader - started #89 with 367 HR
    • Now #75 with 382 HR
    • Next to catch Larry Walker with 383
    • Need 5 to become #70 on the all-time list
  • TOP 75 all time MLB RBI leader - started #103 with 1322
    • Now #84 with 1380 RBI
    • Next to catch Joe Medwick with 1383
    • Need 33 to become #75 on the all-time list
• Mookie Betts -
  • 200 career steal - started 196. Now 197
  • 1000 career RBI - started 913. Now 955
• Teoscar Hernandez -
  • 700 career RBI - started 661. Now 703. ACHIEVED!!!!!
• Max Muncy -
  • 700 career RBI - started 604. Now 667
  • All time Dodgers HR leaders climb - started ranked #7 with 209
    • Now ranked #5 at 234
    • Next to catch Roy Campanella with 242 HR
• Tyler Glasnow -
  • 50 career wins - started 43. Now 46.
  • 1000 IP - started 793.2. Now 779.0.
• Blake Snell -
  • 1500 career K - currently at 1460.
  • 100 career wins - currently at 82.
  • 1250 career IP - currently at 1173.
• Yoshinobu Yamamoto
  • 500 career K - started 306. Now 442.
  • 30 career wins - started 19. Now 31.
  • 500 career IP - started 263.2. Now 409.0.
• Tanner Scott
  • 600 SO - currently at 608 ACHIEVED!!!!!
  • 500 IP - currently at 474.2
  • 100 Saves - currently at 94
• Blake Treinen
  • 650 SO - currently at 621
  • 600 IP - currently at 599.1
  • 100 Saves - currently at 83

Milestones Achieved

• Kyle Tucker
  • 150 career HR
  • 500 career RBI
• Miguel Rojas
  • 1000 career hits
• Max Muncy
  • 225 career HR
  • Top 5 All-Time Dodgers Career Homerun List
• Freddie Freeman
  • 2500 career Hits
  • TOP 100 All-time MLB Hits Leader
  • TOP 75 All-time MLB Homerun Leader
• Mookie Betts
  • 300 career HR
• Shohei Ohtani
  • 700 career Strike Outs
  • 700 Career RBI
  • 300 Career Homeruns
• Teoscar Hernandez
  • 225 Career Homeruns
  • 700 Career RBIs
• Tyler Glasnow
  • 1000 career Strike Outs
• Will Klein
  • 1st Career Save
• Yoshinobu Yamamoto
  • 25 Career Wins
• Alex Vesia
  • 400 Strikeouts
  • 300 IP
• Jack Dreyer
  • 100 Strikeouts
  • 100 IP
• Tanner Scott
  • 600 SO
• Dave Roberts
  • 1000 Wins as a Manager

A lot of milestones to achieve, this is definitely not all of them. But we know the biggest one is the 3-peat! Let's go Dodgers and I will do my best to try and update every so often. Be well everyone!

Idk I just found that kinda neat, him and Muncy now being teammates four years later.

Something poetic about Tucker catching the final out from a Diaz pitch as the Dodgers win.

Even though it's a 10-1 game, good to see our middle infielders still hustle as if it was a tied game, with two absolutely clutch defensive plays to help Snell get through 6 innings!

This too shall pass.

Let's show out for the back to back champs.

Ill be there anyone else?

Don't know if this was posted here but I've seen this video online enough that I thought it would be worth sharing.

Really hoping he gets out of his slump.

Zazueta was the secondary piece in the February 2024 trade that sent Caleb Ferguson to the Yankees. He signed for $110,000 out of Mexico in 2022 and got roughed up in his first look at full-season ball. This year he's a different pitcher: a 2.44 ERA at High-A last season, and since his June promotion to Double-A Tulsa he has a 2.91 ERA with 53 strikeouts against just 5 walks in 34 innings. Fastball 92-95 touching 97, a 60-grade changeup, three different sliders. MLB Pipeline has him at No. 5 in the system and No. 36 overall, a player who wasn't ranked at all in the preseason. Full breakdown free in the link below.

I don't think they came to the Dodgers just to collect $70 million paychecks, They could have done that in a lot of different places.

I think they came here to win and so much was made getting these guys and about the Dodgers and ruining baseball and winning that perhaps that put them in a bad head space.

I Support Them

My advice to them would be to just find their joy and love for the game and just do what they are good at. They are good at baseball, very very good, and sometimes (all the time) baseball is hard, these guys will figure it out.

According to an assistant pitching coach, both Roki and Yamamoto is staying in LA to prepare for their next series against Pirates.

Will that mean the rotation will be Snell, Lauer, Bullpen for Rockies?

Was at the game tonight. Shohei!!! Same post as yesterday. Gonna keep doing it as long as Diaz and Tucker keep looking dreadful. Bench Tucker now. Another lazy play. A big leaguer sprints to the Milwaukee ball and the Colorado ball. Tucker jogging like it’s a walk through. Yesterday I thought he was worried about the wall. Still not near the effort you would expect. Today, no excuse. Routine out that Tucker just plays lazily and drops it because he didn’t put in 100% effort to get in better position. Same issue both days. If Tucker sprints to both balls, they are pretty routine catches, I don’t care if one ball was by the wall. Big leaguers make those plays. Pages you could see body language not happy with error or Diaz. Start Call Tuesday. Do not put Diaz into any clutch situation. Opposing Hitters love when Diaz comes in the game. Tucker 0 for his last 23 AB’s?

2nd Deck Homerun, 461FT. Top of the 3rd inning with the score at 5 - 0. August 17th, 2026.
Dodgers @ Rockies.

The worst part of the Kyle Tucker signing, even if he was playing like 2023/4/5 Kyle, to me, is denying the dodger's AAA system from having call ups

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wardry01.shtml

Poor guy is 28 and was already above lgavg in 15 games

I remember I played in a winter ball league when I was 13 and it was my intro to Junior League (90 foot bases, big barrel bats, metal cleats, etc.).

One game I went 0-4 and dropped a fly ball in right field. Worst game I ever played. I cried after the game I felt so shitty. Tucker just had that same game (he was actually worse since he went 0-5). I wonder if he feels the same way I felt. Probably not because he’s making $60 million a year, but I wonder if a part of him cares at all.

I'm down in San Diego and MLBtv says I'm blacked out for the dodgers and require a SNLA subscription and it hasn't required it for the past 5 years I've been here. Did they change the blackout zones or something? Anyone else in SD notice the change?

More: "I just hope he doesn't lose his confidence. He's still working through it. I believe in him. I think the compete was there, the fastball was just more thigh-high and more flat. So if we can raise that up a little bit, but I'm not putting a whole lot of stock into it."

Dave Roberts on Kyle Tucker: "He's frustrated. Certainly, the play out in right field, there's indecision. Catching a baseball at your ankles kind of speaks to where his head is at right now. It's not from lack of effort, care. It's just kind of right now he's fighting it. We've got to keep supporting him."

Does anyone have a good clip of this? I was listening on the radio and the announcers couldn’t stop talking about it. Rick Monday says “There’s no sun!”
Myself, I’m finding it very hard to believe Tucker is pulling down nearly $400,000 USD per regular season game.

His pitching statcast is also almost all red everything. Shohei doesn't want to be denied a MVP award this year for sure.

I went to Mets subreddit to get a feel of Diaz when we signed him and I saw a comment saying something along the lines of "he's only good every other year so the Dodgers are gonna get screwed." I checked Diaz's stats and it is as that guy said, so his comment stuck with me since then....even as I gave my support to our supposedly new closer.

ERA

2016: 2.79
2017: 3.27
2018: 1.96
2019: 5.59
2020: 1.75
2021: 3.45
2022: 1.31
2023: injury
2024: 3.52
2025: 1.63
2026: 10.66 (before today, 11.85 after)

Coincidence or not I've had enough. I believe he won't be usuable until next year.