Minor league signings and small-time trades usually aren't anything to get worked up about one way or the other, but it's a little different when it's the Dodgers, and especially when it's a pitcher.

“Tavajoh! Tavajoh! Tavajoh!” a man’s voice announces, before going on to narrate a string of numbers in no apparent order, slowly and rhythmically. After nearly two hours, the calls of “Attention!” in ...