Chad Moriyama Dodgers, Sabermetrics, Scouting
Previously, I took a look at potential Chad Billingsley replacements at AAA in Stephen Fife and John Ely, wondering whether Ely would ever get another crack. Well, today the Dodgers put Billingsley on the 15-day DL and promoted Fife to start.
The Dodgers placed right-hander Chad Billingsley on the 15-day disabled list on Tuesday with an inflamed elbow flexor tendon, and they recalled Stephen Fife from Triple-A Albuquerque to start on Tuesday night in Billingsley’s place.
Manager Don Mattingly said on Monday night that he thought Billingsley would miss only one start, which Billingsley confirmed on Tuesday is still the plan.
Billingsley is going to throw a bullpen session on Friday after taking a couple of days off to rest his elbow, which he said feels the same as it has the past few days.
As I said before though, it’s not like the Dodgers had a shortage of guys to be designated for assignment. I’m still unsure why they didn’t go with clearly the best pitcher on the Isotopes.
This certainly give credence to the earlier post (and the history with De Jesus) that once the Dodgers are down on a guy, they might as well try to get out of the organisation because their future with the team is essentially fucked.
Common, no?
Yes. Player loses confidence too.
@MattKempFTW – I have no idea whether it’s common or not but it seems asinine to me! If I cast people in simple black and white terms like the Dodgers seem to have done with certain prospects (De Jesus, Sands, Ely, and so on), I would have lost out on a lot of great workers.
@Chad – I can definitely see that happening. If I know that I will never get out of the dog house with my boss, what would incentivize me to keep working hard?
Maybe a change of scenery is what is necessary or maybe he’s just not as good as we thought.
Couldn’t catch the game but saw this morning that Fife has an 89 MPH fastball and a 86 MPH changeup. At least we didn’t give up anyone good for him.
Something like that, yeah.
Everybody was impressed. Looked ordinary to me.
He looked like … well … a sixth or seventh starter, which is his projection.
Yet another fucking L in ned colletti’s ledger.
Not really.
Trayvon isn’t contributing yet either. Pretty pointless, like most of his trades.
Well hey now. Remember Colletti has to make that Trayvon Robinson trade look good. He has to showcase the returns he got for a useless trade.
But it makes you wonder why he did the opposite of the axiom of trading away your excess talent for a scarcity. Did this organization suddenly face a depletion of pitchers and overabundance of quality bats?
Nope.
When they dealt Carlos Santana, he was going to be a top three prospect the following year primarily because he was a bat.
Dodgers have never really excelled at drafting position players under Logan White. At least compared to the pitchers.
Oh I know, it was more of a rhetorical point. Even with the bad value gained from the trade, the opportunity cost was enormous. It’s making itself quite clear right now. There are no good left fielders on the team, at least not any that can bat.