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James Outman was named National League Rookie of the Month for April of the 2023 season, becoming the first Los Angeles Dodgers player to receive the honor since Cody Bellinger in June 2017.Bellinger also was named NL Rookie of the Month for May of that season, and of course he went on to be the unanimous selection for 2017 NL Rookie of the Year.

James Outman put together an impressive showing during Spring Training to earn a spot on the Los Angeles Dodgers Opening Day roster, and he carried that success into the start of the 2023 regular season.While steadily earning his way into everyday starts throughout the first month, Outman set a Dodgers rookie record with seven home runs hit in March/April.

Fernando Valenzuela added to what quickly was shaping to be an impressive rookie season with the Los Angeles Dodgers by logging a complete game and his fourth shutout of the year on April 27, 1981.The outing against the San Francisco Giants was his fifth of the season.As he was in the process of blanking the Dodgers' longtime rival, Valenzuela additionally broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning.

Thankfully, the Yankees salvaged a win yesterday, avoiding a sweep in Minnesota.A fourth-straight loss would have pushed their ace, Gerrit Cole, into stopper mode, tasked with stopping the bleeding on a sinking ship, if we're to mix metaphors.Instead, Cole will take the ball to open a four-game set in Texas with a chance to get a winning streak going.

On March 28, 2019, the Los Angeles Dodgers began the season in emphatic fashion as they set an Opening Day record and tied a franchise all-time mark for any game with eight home runs against the Arizona Diamondbacks.They were led by two apiece from Kiké Hernandez and Joc Pederson.Austin Barnes, Corey Seager, Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy also contributed to the record-setting afternoon at Dodger Stadium.

1. New York Yankees 2. Tampa Bay Rays (Wild Card) 3. Toronto Blue Jays (Wild Card) 4. Boston Red Sox
5. Baltimore Orioles
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Gerrit Cole wins his first Cy Young award as his home run rate regresses ... New York overcomes injuries to Carlos Rodón and Frankie Montas thanks to Clarke Schmidt and Domingo Germán, who go down as two of the biggest starting pitcher draft steals ... Josh Donaldson has a better fantasy season than Anthony Rizzo, while DJ LeMahieu bounces back with a productive campaign ... Has there ever been a prospect who was a below average hitter in Triple-A (91 wRC+) and is projected to have a .670

The Dodgers will enter the season without a designated closer for the first time in a very long time.We talk a lot about the departures of guys like Justin Turner and Cody Bellinger leaving LA this past offseason, and guys like Corey Seager, Joc Pederson, and Enrique Hernandez before them.But one of the bigger names that has left the Dodgers in recent years is Kenley Jansen.

Wednesday was a big day on the baseball calendar, as Dodgers pitchers and catchers reported to spring training in Glendale, Arizona.Soon we'll be watching the boys in blue play actual (exhibition) games, and before you know it, Opening Day will be here!But first, the media gets to talk to the players.

Back in 2017, the Chicago White Sox inked shortstop Tim Anderson to a six-year, $25 million deal that included team options for 2023 and 2024.The club exercised their option heading into this season, which will allow Anderson to make $12.5 million.The question is, could this be the last year Anderson wears a White Sox jersey?

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The playoff beam is being lit in Sacramento.The Kings clinched a playoff berth with their win over Portland on Wednesday.Sacramento's win also ends the longest playoff drought in the four major North American sports leagues, as the Kings hadn't been to the playoffs since the 2005-06 season.

The Dodgers believe they can get plenty of offensive production from their likely new double-play pairing of shortstop Gavin Lux and second baseman Miguel Vargas.How those two perform defensively, however, is harder to predict.Shortstop is Lux's natural position, and he handled the role for a stretch in 2021 while Corey Seager was injured.

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Andrew Friedman sat with his newest star acquisition to his left, a group of enthusiastically trustful fans screaming his praises from nearby, and smiled as he made a bold proclamation about the Dodgers' fortunes 12 months ago."I can argue that the next five years' outlook," Friedman said last March, during an introductory news conference for Freddie Freeman at the Dodgers Camelback Ranch spring-training complex, "is better than what we accomplished over the previous five."

Anthony Volpe completely missed on two sliders, both of them in the zone.If there was a knock on his spring performance, it's that the relative talent level he was facing on the mound was right about Double-A pitching.That OPS has hovered around 1.000, but he hadn't seen much major league caliber opposition.

The last play Vin Scully ever called at Dodger Stadium was a doozy.On September 25, 2016, the Dodgers had a magic number to clinch the division of one, and they took on the Rockies in Los Angeles.The Giants, in second place in the NL West, were playing the Padres down in San Diego in a game that started 30 minutes after the Dodgers/Rockies game.

With the news that Gavin Lux will miss the entire 2023 season with a torn ACL, the Dodgers are now left to figure out their game plan as far as who will start at short for them this year.Lux was finally in line to be the starting shortstop after four years behind Corey Seager and Trea Turner, but the 25-year-old former top prospect will have to wait another year for that.

When Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced on Tuesday that shortstop Gavin Lux is out for the season with a torn ACL, he said recently reacquired Miguel Rojas would get the bulk of the starts at short with Chris Taylor also getting some time there.On Wednesday, Roberts talked to the media again and went into a little bit more detail about LA's plans at shortstop.

The Dodgers suffered a devastating loss when Gavin Lux went down with what turned out to be a season-ending torn ACL.Lux was slated to be the team's starting shortstop in 2023, following in the footsteps of Corey Seager and Trea Turner.Fortunately, the Dodgers traded for veteran infielder Miguel Rojas back in January, as they desperately needed some depth.

With the Super Bowl in the rearview mirror, the start of Spring Training has arrived, with Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers and catchers reporting to Camelback Ranch this week.Those participating in the 2023 World Baseball Classic - Austin Barnes, Clayton Kershaw, Adam Kolarek, Will Smith, and Julio Urías - were due in camp Monday.

Ahead of the start of spring training, MLB.com created its version of the top 100 players in baseball right now.Newly-signed shortstop, Dansby Swanson, made the list at No. 39.He represents the only Chicago Cub on the list and the highest-ranked player in Chicago, beating out all White Sox players who made the cut.

With the news that Dodgers shortstop Gavin Lux is out for the season with a torn ACL, Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts is working on his plan to fill that hole at short.In talking to the media on Tuesday morning, Roberts said Miguel Rojas, re-acquired from the Marlins this offseason, will get the bulk of the starts at short.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.- Waiting for the game to come to him and not forcing the action is one of shortstop Colson Montgomery's strong suits.But it's safe to say the White Sox' top prospect can't wait to play in his first Cactus League game Wednesday.The 22nd pick in the 2021 draft and the Sox' top-ranked prospect (38th) by MLB Pipeline, Montgomery has impressed in the first two weeks of spring training.

Congrats to the White Sox, who won 5-4 to move their record to 5-3 a bit more than a week into Spring Training, and for MLB.com, for hustling, scamming, bamboozling, and hoodwinking me into believing today's game might actually be broadcast so that it might be seen by mine own two eyes.Another day, I suppose!

Former Dodgers Corey Seager, Cody Bellinger, and Edwin Rios were all captured by Karri Levens chopping it up at Spring Training in some new uniforms.Seager was last a member of Los Angeles in 2021 while Bellinger and Rios departed this past offseason.All of them were fan favorites in their time here and many people are still getting accustomed to seeing them in their new uniforms.

MLB The league hopes to fix the significant batting average drop seen over the last few seasons.PHOENIX (AP) - Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell needed to add some pop to his lineup a couple years ago, so he put a few more big bodies in his four-man infield, sacrificing defensive range for offensive thump.

When we went to bed last night, we all hoped for the best for Gavin Lux but feared the worst after watching him injure his knee in yesterday's spring training game against the Padres.This morning, we found out those fears were true, as the Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced the Los Angeles shortstop will miss the entire 2023 season with a torn ACL.

Gavin Lux was drafted by the Dodgers as a shortstop and came up through the minors as a shortstop.After spending his first four seasons mostly as a second baseman because Los Angeles had Corey Seager and then Trea Turner, Lux was set to become the full-time starter at short for the first time this season.

Dodgers starting shortstop Gavin Lux is out for the season with a torn ACL.Manager Dave Roberts made the announcement Tuesday morning, and about an hour later, Lux addressed the media.Lux was on crutches, and had a brace on his right knee.He was holding back tears, speaking about the season-ending injury.

Red Sox The average MLB salary saw its highest percentage increase since 2000.NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball's average salary rose 14.8% to a record $4.22 million last year after the end of the lockout, boosted by big deals for Max Scherzer, Francisco Lindor, Marcus Semien and Corey Seager.The rate of increase was the highest since a 17.7% increase in 2000 to $1.61 million, according to final calculations by the players' association.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have become intertwined with Driveline Baseball over recent years, and this past offseason Mookie Betts joined the growing list of players to visit their facility.Betts made his way up to Driveline in Seattle, where he worked on hitting and other drills.The data-driven training facility was established in 2008 and has continued to grow in popularity as its approaches become more mainstream.

Andrew Friedman smirked, then tried to find some levity with a sarcastic remark."We're definitely susceptible if we have another injury," the Dodgers president of baseball operations said Friday, speaking to reporters for the first time since Gavin Lux suffered a torn ACL on Monday."So we've decided," Friedman then deadpanned, "we just won't have another injury for the rest of the year."

The Dodgers have walked a pretty interesting line lately, keeping an ultra-competitive big-league program while consistently having a solid farm system, too.While they've flexed their financial muscle by signing Freddie Freeman and trading for (and then extending) Mookie Betts, their ballclub has consistently included trash-bin pickups like Justin Turner, Chris Taylor, Max Muncy and others along with homegrown contributors like Clayton Kershaw, Julio Urias, Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May, Will Smith, Gavin Lux, Cody Bellinger, Corey Seager, and Joc Pederson.