Barring injury, it looks like Casey Blake will be starting at third base for the Dodgers on opening day April 6 in San Diego. Blake will be the sixth different 3B to start on opening day in the last six years:
2004: Adrian Beltre
2005: Jose Valentin
2006: Bill Mueller
2007: Wilson Betemit
2008: Blake DeWitt
2009: Casey Blake
Believe it or not, this is not the longest such streak of hot corner instability in Dodger history. After the franchise's first championship in 1955, the club embarked on an 11-year odyssey with a different third-sacker each year:
1956: Jackie Robinson
1957: Randy Jackson (dog!)
1958: Dick Gray
1959: Jim Baxes
1960: Junior Gilliam
1961: Tommy Davis
1962: Daryl Spencer
1963: Ken McMullen
1964: Johnny Werhas
1965: John Kennedy
1966: Jim Lefebvre
Overall, Blake will be the 33rd different third baseman in the last 54 years. He'll get to join the ranks of such Dodger greats as German Rivera (1984) and Mike Blowers (1996).
You want something more obscure? More LA Dodger opening day 3B have reached on an error (4) than have homered (3).
What does this all mean? Well, nothing, other than the fact that I'm bored and waiting for pitchers and catchers to report.