A few weeks ago, the Dodgers announced that they had agreed to a minor league contract with pitcher David Aardsma. When/if Aardsma plays his first official game for the Dodgers, his name will automatically go to the top of the list of all the people who have played for the Dodgers. That's because Aardsma's name is first alphabetically among all major league baseball players ever. Aardsma's signing got me thinking about other recent Dodgers arrivals. The team signed pitcher Brett Anderson during the offseason. Shortstop Erisbel Arrubarrena played a little for the Dodgers last year and is still in the system. The Dodgers sure have been picking up a lot of guys whose last names start with "A". This seemed like an excellent time to see if I could put together an all-Dodger team with players at each position who arrived earliest in the alphabet. So I did. For example, Sandy Alomar played catcher for the Dodgers. But there is another guy who played catcher ...
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