I don’t know what the success rate is for something that comes up in the New Year, but I feel like a week is a good milestone. I think if I can make it to Spring Training I’ll be in really good shape maybe to see this daily Dodgers post thing through.

Coaching Staff Retained

The Dodgers announced yesterday that they’ll retain their entire coaching staff. The staff, along with manager Don Mattingly, includes Tim Wallach, Rick Honeycutt, Mark McGwire, Davey Lopes, Lorenzo Bundy, John Valentin, Ken Howell, and Chuck Crim.

Here’s an article from TrueBlueLA on the coaching retention. 

Other Links

• Mike Petriello writes about why we should be glad Julio Urias isn’t Randy Johnson. Cliff’s Notes version — Johnson took a long time to develop the dominator he ended-up being.
• Dodgers Digest’s Dustin Nosler is doing his part to help Dodger fans get over the loss of Ned Colleti as the GM, as he breaks-down Roberto Hernandez’ eight games as a Dodger and what they gave up for him.
• Here’s another interesting post by Eric Stephen on the Dodgers’ top prospects according to Baseball Prospectus
• In case you missed it, the Dodgers started off the New Year by DFA’ing Erisbel Arruebarrena.

Noodle Commercial Alert

Chad Moriyama is amazing. Along with being a must-follow during the Dodgers season, Moriyama posted on Dodgers Digest about this beauty of a commercial featuring Hyun-jin Ryu and noodles. There are GIFs and some smart noodle commercial analysis on his post, which I highly recommend. Both the commercial and the DD post are everything I hoped they would be, and more.

In fact, if I can cull them together, I might have a whole post this week about some of the amazing commercials Ryu has been in…

OK, that’s all for today. Happy Friday!