Dodger Thoughts

By Jon Weisman

Hey, there’s a blast from the recent past: former Dodger executive Kim Ng, next to Don Mattingly and director of team travel Scott Akasaki.

• Carl Crawford was back in action in Arizona today, while Matt Kemp played a full game, reports Ken Gurnick of MLB.com. Still no new baby for Crawford, yet.
• Tommy Lasorda spent some time talking to — and being overheard by — Bob Nightengale of USA Today.
• The Dodgers have the best 17-year-old player in baseball in Julio Urias and the best 23-year-old in Yasiel Puig, according to Baseball America. Raul A. Mondesi of the Kansas City farm system, by the way, is the best 18-year-old.
• Peter O’Malley is the premier sponsor of “Dodgers: Brotherhood of the Game,” a special exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Running from March 29 through September 14, the exhibition “will explore the team’s storied past through four players and a Hall of Fame manager, each of whom made history in his own right: Jackie Robinson, Fernando Valenzuela, Chan Ho Park, Hideo Nomo, and Tommy Lasorda.”
• Mike Scioscia’s son was traded for Wayne Gretzky’s son, according to Bill Shaikin of the Times. In baseball — not in real life.
• In Australia, Hyun-Jin Ryu met up with his change-up mentor, 44-year-old Dae-Sung Koo, writes Dylan Hernandez of the Times.
• Ogden manager Jack McDowell talked REM and other stuff in this interview with Dave Jordan for Instream Sports.
• If the Dodgers were an Australian football team, they might be the Collingwood Magpies, according to Michael Chammas of the Sydney Morning Herald. That’s right — he actually said the Collingwood Magpies.