The Dodgers are about to begin their postseason on Saturday, but there’s more going on around the organization than just the National League Division Series. A few Dodgers-related notes have surfaced this week, and they touch on the club’s reputation, an old catcher getting recognized back home, and a prospect making noise in October.
One of the clearest reminders of how the Dodgers operate came from Andy McCullough of The Athletic, who wrote about the team’s place in baseball as the postseason arrives and about the way they’ve become a target for a lot of people around the sport. He also focused on something players inside the organization keep noticing: the small stuff. Max Muncy put it plainly:
“We’ve done all the little things that we’ve needed to do, and we don’t get the credit for that,” Muncy said. “We just get the credit that we’re all big names on big contracts, and that’s why we won. And that’s not really the case.”
That attention to detail has shown up in ways that have reached beyond the Dodgers’ own clubhouse. The club drew headlines when it bought a second plane in 2025 so players could fly separately.
And for Tarik Skubal, that kind of care wasn’t just theory. After the Tigers drafted him in 2018, he played in the Class A Midwest League, where the Dodgers also had an affiliate.
“They had two buses in Low A,” Skubal said. “That sounds like nothing. But having your own seat on a five-hour bus ride or a six-hour bus ride, instead of having to double up or lay on the floor, it matters.”
Elsewhere, former Dodgers catcher Russell Martin picked up a major honor this week when he was elected to the Quebec Sports Hall of Fame. The Montreal native spent 14 major league seasons with four different teams, made the postseason at least twice with each of them, and was a two-time All-Star during his time in Los Angeles.
He also won both a Gold Glove Award and a Silver Slugger Award with the Dodgers in 2007. Kevin Glew at Cooperstowners in Canada has more on the latest recognition for Martin.
And in the minors, Zach Ehrhard kept rolling at Triple-A Oklahoma City. He closed out a strong season by piling up four multi-hit games in the postseason, helping the Comets win the Pacific Coast League title and then take the Triple-A championship game. Over those four games, Ehrhard went 9-for-17 with a home run, three doubles, three walks, and a hit by pitch, good for a .529/.619/.882 line.
That postseason surge earned him another nod on Wednesday, when Baseball America named him one of 15 prospects who dominated in the minor league playoffs. Ian Cundall wrote: “Ehrhard doesn’t have the upside of some of the other prospects on this list, but he’s a high-probability big leaguer,” and added that he “ranks among the Top 30 prospects in the Dodgers’ system and could carve out a solid career as a backup outfielder.”
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