How Mandy, of all people, would handle becoming a mother seemed like an interesting story for “Last Man Standing” to tell. That seems unlikely now.ĭoes all of this mean that Mandy’s pregnancy will be a blink-and-you-missed-it event? It seems so, and I am surprised. So, I was looking forward to seeing how she would evolve in Season 9. For the first six or so seasons of “Last Man Standing,” she was fairly self-centered, although her love for Kyle helped salve that some. Why? Because Mandy becoming a mom is huge. I am all for Mandy exploring life as a stay-at-home mom, but I will miss the storyline about her becoming a mom. Executive producer, Kevin Abbott, teased Mandy’s Season 9 plotline by telling TVLine: She has to grapple with how she feels about that in terms of identifying as somebody’s mother, as opposed to identifying as me She’s still going to be Mandy, but time will have changed her. Where will the fun, baby-related storylines be? I guess baby Mabel (you know who I am talking about “Mad About You” fans) ruined that for sitcoms? In related news, “Last Man Standing” will instead focus on Mandy becoming a stay-at-home mom. She is practically off to college! I kid (but only sort of). Bolstering that notion is TVLine reporting Mandy and Kyle’s 3-year-old daughter will figure into the premiere. That means Mandy and Kyle expecting their first child could be a plot point largely smoothed over in Season 9. However, “Last Man Standing” will make multiple time-jumps in its Season 9 premiere. Will there be time travel on the scale of Netflix’s “Dark”? Not quite. Wait, what? Yes, the Season 9 premiere’s official teaser reveals that multiple time jumps will find Mike and Vanessa with not one but two new grandchildren. His last tweet was from October 2020, celebrating Yomiuri’s Central League title.“Last Man Standing’s” official logline has provided a preview of what is coming in Season 9, and it seems like the show will be skipping Mandy and Kyle’s baby storyline. I’m no scout, but De La Rosa earns extra points from me for not being terminally online. He posted a 2.53 ERA in 124⅓ innings with 33 saves for Yomiuri, and was part of two Central League titles in 20. That leaves De La Rosa, who pitched in relief the last four years with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan. Outside of Puerto Rican Winter League stints including this year, the soon-to-be-36-year-old infielder no longer plays baseball during the summer. He last played in 2021.ĭe Jesús played parts of four seasons in the majors, the last in 2016, and played in Triple-A as recently as 2019. In a four-year stint in Asia, Sands played two years in the KBO and two more in Japan, hitting 79 home runs with an. Sands played in parts of five major league seasons before going overseas. Webster pitched five years in the majors, and last played in 2019. Punto last played in 2014, and announced his retirement in February 2016. Loney last played in the majors in 2016, then kicked around in the minors, Korea, and in independent baseball before retiring in 2019. González last played in 2018, though he didn’t officially retire until last February.īeckett retired after throwing a no-hitter in his final season of 2014. The move - specifically, acquiring González - helped established a credibility in Los Angeles after the franchise was dragged into literal bankruptcy by previous owner Frank McCourt. It was a shot across the bow for the then-new Dodgers ownership group, taking on more than $250 million in salary to show they meant business. Major league plate appearances or batters faced after the Augtrade between the Dodgers and Red Sox. In August 2012, the Dodgers acquired Adrián González, Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett and Nick Punto for James Loney, Allen Webster, Iván De Jesús Jr., and two players to be named later, who eventually were Jerry Sands and De La Rosa. But all that runs secondary to this fact: Rubby De La Rosa is the last man standing from The Punto Trade. Whether De La Rosa gets an invitation to big league camp, or whether his role with the Dodgers will be in relief or starting remains to be seen. According to the MLB dot com transactions log, pitcher Rubby De La Rosa signed a minor league contract with the Dodgers.īack in January when Triple-A Oklahoma City play-by-play broadcaster Alex Freedman joined me on the True Blue LA podcast, he mentioned, “The Dodgers in terms of the minor league free agent market, there have been no guys who can be potential starting pitchers who they’ve signed.”Ī handful or so of those pitchers have since been added, and were part of the group of non-roster invitees to Camelback Ranch announced last week. There are old friend alerts and there are old friend alerts, and this qualifies as the latter.
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