LA added pitchers, a look a the roster, a uniform number swap, a return, and remembering a baseball legend behind the mic and on screen.
The Dodgers haven’t yet officially announced the signings of reliever Tanner Scott and starter Roki Sasaki, but expect those to come this week. Here are a few stories to start your morning after a holiday weekend.
Scott signed a four-year contract that will pay him $72 million. Sasaki will be paid a $6.5 million signing bonus on his minor league deal. On Monday I looked at the pitching side of the Dodgers’ 40-man roster and the potential crunch that will take spring training to sort out.
I talked bout the Scott signing on the latest Three-Inning Save podcast that dropped on Monday.
Sasaki will reportedly wear number 11, which was ceded by Miguel Rojas, who is switching back to uniform number 72, which the shortstop wore as a rookie with the Dodgers in 2014.
“I hope giving him the number helped getting him to sign with us,” Rojas told J.P. Hoornstra at The Big Lead.
Teoscar Hernández was a guest on the Dodgers Territory podcast on Monday, and talked about the many additions the Dodgers have made this winter and last, among other things.
“It’s huge. It makes me more excited, it makes me work a little harder to get ready. When you see an organization that just won the World Series not stop because they are hungry,” Hernández said. “They want to win, they want to keep winning, and they are doing everything in their power to get all the players they feel they need just so the organization is better and better throughout the years.”
“We just won a World Series, and now our team is way better than it used to be,” he added.
Speaking of Dodgers Territory, I was a guest last Thursday talking various Dodgers things and my love of spring training ties.
Legendary Brewers announcer and former actor and comedian Bob Uecker died last Thursday at age 90. A few remembrances of Uecker I enjoyed were written by Grant Brisbee at The Athletic and Matt Zoller-Seitz at Vulture.
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