The Dodgers released the dates for their promotional giveaways, in 2015, and we will wade through the tatty (fleece blanket) and the bizarre (a Tommy Lasorda garden gnome; brilliant but creepy) and go straight to the stuff that matters.

The bobbleheads!

The Dodgers have 10 bobblehead games scheduled for 2015, which boggles the mind. Remember when two or three a year was considered generous?

The Dodgers will have 10, “past and present” and they have given us the dates, but have not identified the players to be honored — with a porcelain semi-lookalike of them with oversized heads and a metal spring for a neck.

I, however, have some recommendations for the 10 dolls:

May 12 (vs. Miami): Clayton Kershaw. Let’s get the Cy Young Award (update: and MVP) winner out of the way early. Also, it might be a little chilly in May, and SoCal people don’t like sitting in the cold (talking 65, here), so let’s lure them in with The Man.

May 23 (vs. San Diego): Adrian Gonzalez. The man hit 27 homers and led the league with 116 RBI, but the Dodgers also can screw with the Padres, who will provide the opposition,  who couldn’t or wouldn’t pay AdGon, in 2011, when he went to Boston, and have scored about 2.1 runs per game since. Actually, this Gonzalez could be him fielding; that was a Gold Glove he won this year.

June 4 (vs. St. Louis): Let’s start up the Way Back Machine. How about Wes Parker? I love that guy. Elegant first baseman; best I’ve seen. One of the few men to drive in 100 or more runs with 10 or fewer homers (111 RBI with 10 homers), in 1970. Won six successive Gold Gloves. Retired at 32 because he was tired of traveling.

July 6 (vs. Philadelphia): Matt Kemp. Time to do him again. Might the Dodgers trade him, end of the month? They could, if his numbers are off a little and they aren’t contending. So let’s take care of their best hitter — when he’s healthy, which isn’t all the time, of late — while he’s still wearing blue.

July 11 (vs. Milwaukee): Let’s go for another old-timer. Don Drysdale. An innings-eating machine (300-plus innings four consecutive seasons), part of three World Series champions, won the Cy Young in 1962, set the scoreless innings record (58) in 1968 (the record Orel Hershiser broke 20 years later), dusted Willie Mays at least once every at-bat. A great competitor and local (Van Nuys HS) guy.

July 29 (vs. Oakland): Zack Greinke. A bit of an odd dude, but a very fine pitcher, and I bet the world is not flooded with Greinke bobbleheads. He also has a kinda square head, making it easy for the bobble makers in China. Maybe for laughs they could do a Greinke doll with a smile on his face.

August 13 (vs. Cincinnati). Another Way Back pick. Willie Davis. Three Dog is no longer with us, but he was a very distinctive player who had some personal demons. Statheads will tell you that he was hurt as much as anyone by the bottoming out of offense, in the late 1960s and early 1970s (the height of his career), as well as playing in Dodger Stadium at its most cavernous … and that if you dropped him into the 1930s or 1990s he would have put up some big numbers.

September 1 (vs. San Francisco). Kenley Jansen. Have they had a Kenley doll yet? It’s time. We’re banking, of course, on him still having the closers job. Barring injury, that seems pretty safe — just like a lead in his hands.

September 16 (vs. Colorado). Ron Cey. Have the Dodgers done The Penguin? Must have. Bill James described Cey as having “knees very close to the ground”. He had a weird body type, for sure, but it didn’t keep him from being one of the best players in the game in the 1970s, back when his generally good OBP was not appreciated. And I want the makers to produce a doll reflecting 1) his squat body and 2) his enormous teeth.

September 23 (vs. Arizona): And we end the year with another Vin Scully doll. Don’t care how many the Dodgers have done. He is the club MVP (Most Valuable Person). Do another doll. Maybe in a plaid sports coat throwing out the first pitch. Can’t have too much of Vinny nodding approvingly at you.