Los Angeles Dodgers have signed right-handed reliever/competitive eater Todd Coffey to a one-year deal worth $1.3 million and a club option for 2013. You think I’m joking about the food subsidies? Absolutely not. I’ll analyze the deal in a bit, but for now, let’s just make fun of him being fat. Thanks. Read More »
Dodger Thoughts: Be sure to follow Jon Weisman and Dodger Thoughts to its new home. —– Minor League Ball: John Sickels reviews how the current top 25 pitchers in baseball were seen as prospects. Minor League Ball: Same for the top 30 position players in baseball. —– The Onion: Because making fun of Bleacher Report is always hilarious. Read More »
Seriously? Seriously, according to Tony Jackson of ESPN. Reports on Ronald Belisario are basically like Sasquatch rumors at this point, with a bundle of people saying “No really, I saw it” and others responding with “I want to see evidence”. Read More »
While I defended Hiroki Kuroda‘s choice to sign with the New York Yankees even if it was simply a financial decision (much like Jon Weisman and Mike Petriello did), his detractors look even stupider today after it was revealed that he wasn’t even given an offer by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hiroki Kuroda confirmed what Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti ... Read More »
According to the Los Angeles Times, at least eight bidders were selected to move on to the second round of the Los Angeles Dodgers ownership sweepstakes. Two groups who will not be included in that round are Mark Cuban and Dennis Gilbert. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and local baseball executive Dennis Gilbert did not advance to the second round ... Read More »
Dominican Summer League Dodgers: Pitchers Dominican Summer League Dodgers: Hitters Arizona League Dodgers: Pitchers Arizona League Dodgers: Hitters Ogden Raptors: Pitchers ===== Continuing my off-season recap of the Los Angeles Dodgers minor league affiliates, I will be moving on to the hitters of the Ogden Raptors. —– I’ll be picking the prospects for the 2012 Prospective Prospect Profiles list from ... Read More »
MSTI: Mike Petriello asks how good Matt Kemp‘s contract looks in light of other long term deals. Pretty awesome, I’d say. Grantland: Bill James goes through the best pitcher duels of 2011 and the Dodgers land on the list 10 times. 3. July 20, 2011, Dodgers at San Francisco, Clayton Kershaw against Tim Lincecum 5. September 9, 2011, Dodgers in ... Read More »
Dominican Summer League Dodgers: Pitchers Dominican Summer League Dodgers: Hitters Arizona League Dodgers: Pitchers Arizona League Dodgers: Hitters ===== Besides the fact that Raptors actually had feathers, is it just me or is the logo creepy as hell? Anyway, I’ll continue my off-season recap of the Los Angeles Dodgers minor league affiliates today, moving on to the pitchers of the ... Read More »
If you’re going to get busted for performance enhancing drugs, you might as well make it worth your while, right? Former Red Sox reliever Dustin Richardson was suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for performance-enhancing substances. Richardson tested positive for an amphetamine, Letrozole and metabolite, Methandienone metabolite, Methenelone and metabolite and Trenbolone and metabolite. Richardson, a ... Read More »
Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com has named three members of the Los Angeles Dodgers farm system to his annual Top 100 Prospects list, all of whom are right-handed pitchers. Zach Lee clocked in at #45, Nathan Eovaldi showed up at #70, and Allen Webster rounded out the trio at #74. ===== Zach Lee Statistically speaking: After missing a few weeks with ... Read More »
Have to keep your enemies close, right? Check it out here. Read More »
With the Los Angeles Dodgers in the news for the impending bidding war over the ownership of the team, I thought this would be as appropriate a time as ever to run through the publicly declared bidders, as the deadline for submission has come and gone. Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times breaks down the specifics of the bidding ... Read More »
Seriously though, how in the fuck? Read More »
Is Yu Darvish seriously coming to America with a picture of weed on his shirt? No, probably not, as the Japanese maple leaf isn’t an uncommon logo. Of course, if it turns out to be weed, it shouldn’t surprise anybody, nor should it be taken seriously. Especially when one considers that Asians will put goddamn anything on their shirts. Read More »
Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports that the Dodgers filed a reorganization plan in bankruptcy court that shows the club near $600 million in debt. The Dodgers filed their reorganization plan with a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware on Friday, which will bring the club out of Chapter 11 protection through a sale of the team by April 30. … The ... Read More »
Chad Moriyama Dodgers, Sabermetrics, Scouting
