Joe Torre

For the time being at least, the Eric Gagne experiment has closed. Gagne, who has struggled in his first three spring appearances (2 2/3 innings, six earned runs), has been reassigned to the minor league camp. His comeback is now facing a longer, mor... more ...

Checking up on your weekend web reading … -- Is there really any such thing as a minor elbow problem when it comes to Hong-Chih Kuo? This poor guy has been through four serious elbow operations. As Dylan Hernandez wrote earlier this spring, when he... more ...

Tim Wallach, manager. Has a nice ring. Seems like a natural fit. And though he’d had a taste of managing for a season with the Angels’ Single-A team in San Bernardino in 2001, managing the Dodgers' Triple-A team in Albuquerque last season only ce... more ...

Bulked up Russell Martin, down with a strained groin. Clean-shaven Casey Blake, down with a strained rib-cage muscle. Cory Wade, down with a sore shoulder. Wait … Wade’s out with a sore shoulder? Isn’t this how we left him last August? None of... more ...

Russell Martin is out four to six weeks with a strained abductor muscle and immediately you wonder: Does it have anything to do with that curious 25-pound weight gain? Everyone denies it, but really, what else are they going to say? That’s a lot of... more ...

Russell Martin is out four to six weeks with a strained abductor muscle. and immediately you wonder: Does it have anything to do with that curious 25-pound weight gain? Everyone denies it, but really, what else are they going to say? That’s a lot o... more ...

Garret Anderson, who years ago was expected to be a lifelong Angel, is being courted by the Dodgers, as the LA Times is reporting. GA played 15 seasons with the Angels before spending the 2009 season as a part the Atlanta Braves’ organization. At t... more ...

Already the NY Post is on Nick Johnson for being hurt already. Johnson inexplicably wore spikes instead of sneakers on the astroturf-like mat used for batting practice yesterday. A spike caught in the carpet and he tweaked his back, causing him to b... more ...

So Doug Mientkiewicz and Brian Giles, what do you think of that move? Garret Anderson, Los Angeles native, was signed by the Dodgers on Wednesday night to a minor league deal. The Dodgers are stockpiling veteran left-handed hitters, and really, what... more ...

There is a weighty issue revolving around catcher Russell Martin. He reported to camp this spring about 25 pounds bigger than last year. His theory: He lost some pop last season and the extra muscle will help him regain his power stroke. Last year he... more ...

Won’t you come home, Ronald Belisario, won’t you come home? To your baseball home, that is. To the Dodgers, currently working daily in the Arizona sun to prepare for the coming season. All of them, that is, but you. It’s Day 12 without Visa Man... more ...

Eric Stults, it is time to step up. Not time to come close. Not time to be a possibility. Time to close the deal. To win the final spot in the Dodgers' rotation. Or head out of town. Stults is 30 years old and beginning his ninth season in the organi... more ...