Chad Moriyama Dodgers, Sabermetrics, Scouting
Eric Stephen of True Blue LA relays the news that Todd Coffey is out for the year with an elbow strain.
Dodgers relief pitcher Todd Coffey received some bad news on Tuesday, as the reliever is out for the season with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
Coffey didn’t feel any pain in his arm, so he didn’t expect much to come out of Tuesday’s MRI exam.
“The only thing I anticipated was inflammation. I didn’t anticipate any structural damage because it didn’t feel that way,” Coffey said. “I expected rest, maybe in four or five days I’d be good to go but to have that bombshell dropped on me sucks.”
The bullpen injuries are getting a bit ridiculous now, so the team’s depth will matter. Shawn Tolleson will be needed to step up in his front-end role, if not, Josh Wall might get the next shot.
Seriously though, Ned Colletti should just completely stay away from signing veteran bullpen arms.
I expect Tolleson to be much better, but the real question is whether Donny will trust him with anything more than mop-up duty.
And I fully expect Ned to go make a terrible trade for a bullpen arm. Another Sherrill-type deal.
The trade for Sherrill wasn’t nearly as bad as the trade for Dotel. However, there have been a number of reports that Ned wants to acquire a lefty reliever, which of course would be stupid because Cole St. Clair has been okay in Albuquerque.
Yeah tell me about it he wants a lefty reliever when we have a guy who’s striking out FIVE guys per nine and has an other-worldly 3.5 FIP as a 25 year old in his first year in AAA.
Seriously though Cole St. Clair is okay if you’ve already given up on the season and you just want to figure out if you have some assets but why would you intentionally play him in the majors?
He has decent numbers vs lefties. We’d be using him as a LOOGY. Would you rather give up a top 5 or 10 prospect for a middle reliever?
Just don’t want to waste our good start because we don’t want to give up some prospects, that’s all. Already nervous about going into AZ without a shortstop.
Could give up the whole system and not effectively fill the holes of this team.
With the way Gordon has been hitting and fielding, Cruz might be a step up at SS. We’re getting Ellis back at 2B, meaning that we can platoon Hairston and Herrera at 3B and relegate Kennedy to the bench. Loney appears to be in the early stages of progression to the mean, and Kemp and Ethier should be back after the break. I only want Ned to make a trade if it’s a clear improvement over what we have, and I don’t want him to make a Ned-style overpay.
I just think we always believe it can’t get any worse until we find out why a guy is a career minor leaguer.
Right, but knowing Ned, if he wants to replace Gordon temporarily, he’s likely to give away one of our better prospects for a veteran SS who has an OPS in the .600-.650 range. Do we really want to do that instead of going with Cruz/Herrera for the next eight weeks? Herrera has returned to earth, but he did get a walk and a dinger last night, while Cruz will return to earth eventually, but right now he’s doing better than Gordon overall.
If Ned’s looking for a LOOGY, I’d rather not see a top ten prospect go away for someone who could turn into the 2010 George Sherrill model. St. Clair has been decent against lefties in the PCL, so I’d rather see him brought up than see Ned make one of his patented overpays.
Doubt he gives up anybody worth a shit.