With Javy Guerra blowing (and losing) the game last night in an absolutely epic fashion (-.950 WPA), I was motivated to look back and see if much maligned closer Jonathan Broxton had ever done anything so epic before, because if you’re going to blow a game, why not make it awesome, right? - 0.1 IP 5 H 2 BB 4 ... Read More »
MLB: Dodgers will retain the entire coaching staff next year. Great news for what I think was a surprisingly effective unit. - Baseball Prospectus: They take a look at the 2012 Dodgers and beyond. ESPN: Keith Law tabs Matt Kemp for the 2011 NL MVP Award. - Los Angeles Times: Fox Sports sues the Dodgers, because…of course. Los Angeles Times: ... Read More »
Glad the Dodgers participated in the “It Gets Better” campaign. Wish they would make that promise to Dodgers fans in 2012 too. - Vin Scully Is My Homeboy: Rookie hazing pictures are always awesome for future chops. Mike Scioscia’s Tragic Illness: Mike Petriello thinks Don Mattingly has done well this season. Agreed. - MLB: Will Hiroki Kuroda stay or go? ... Read More »
Los Angeles Times: Major League Baseball has now basically told Frank McCourt to get the fuck out. Major League Baseball on Friday asked a federal bankruptcy judge to order the sale of the Dodgers, arguing in court papers that Frank McCourt’s plan to retain ownership of the team is “dead on arrival.” Honestly, his entire ownership was. In a statement, ... Read More »
What’s the best thing to come out of the upcoming “Moneyball” film release and the subsequent torrent of articles on it? Makes it easy to identify writers who are just lazy. - Baseball America: Joc Pederson and James Baldwin have landed on the list of the top 20 prospects in the Pioneer League, clocking in at 3 and 11, respectively. ... Read More »
Baseball America: Shawn Tolleson was the only Dodgers prospect to make the 2011 Minor League All-Stars team, as he was awarded a spot on the second team as a reliever. Baseball America: When naming All-Star teams per level though, former Dodgers prospect Trayvon Robinson lands at AAA, Scott Van Slyke checks in at AA, and Joc Pederson at R. - ... Read More »
True Blue LA: Eric Stephen looks at how Jamey Carroll exceeded expectations. While I don’t have the post anymore, I’m quite sure I didn’t like his signing at all. However, by mid-2010, it became quite apparent that he was going to be a valuable player for the Dodgers going forward. It wasn’t about grittiness or hustle or whatever storyline people ... Read More »
MLB: Dodgers don’t think Clayton Kershaw will be suspended. MLB: Hiroki Kuroda had an MRI on his neck that didn’t reveal any damage. Didn’t know he was still having trouble with it. MLB: Shawn Tolleson and Scott Van Slyke were named the Dodgers Branch Rickey Minor League Pitcher and Player Of The Year. I’ll be profiling both of them in ... Read More »
Los Angeles Times: As many expected, this nightmare with the McCourts will continue into 2012. Frank and Jamie McCourt expect to settle their divorce — and with it the question of who owns the Dodgers — in a trial during the 2012 baseball season. The trial is expected to start next spring or summer and last 30 to 45 days, ... Read More »
After yesterday’s debacle, today certainly seemed to be must see television, but after Clayton Kershaw pitched normally to Gerardo Parra in the third inning, it did seem like today’s game would proceed normally. In the top of sixth inning, however, with Parra at-bat for the second time, Kershaw threw a strike and then grazed Parra on the elbow with an ... Read More »
Tonight’s game was a rather uneventful affair in what amounted to a meaningless game for the Dodgers, only notable for Chad Billinglsey’s continued inability to miss bats and Jerry Sands’ solid all-around game. For better or worse though, Gerardo Parra decided to spice things up for everybody involved in the top of the seventh after he took offense to a ... Read More »
Los Angeles Times: Andre Ethier is done for the season. I don’t understand what took so long for this, and I’m not sure Mike Petriello does either. Perhaps now we can stop the inferences that Ethier just needed a stern warning in order to get past this injury. MLB: Casey Blake had surgery. Oh. MLB: Juan Uribe had surgery. Oh. ... Read More »
I might be alone on this, but one of the few pleasant surprises of the 2011 season is seeing Don Mattingly control the clubhouse, control the media, and manage the game decently. After deserved mocking for visiting the mound twice in one interim managerial stint in 2010 and then running out of pitchers during the off-season Arizona Fall League, I ... Read More »
Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times brought surprising news to us today, which sparked a lot of discussion on the future ownership of the team. Frank McCourt has been offered $1.2 billion to sell the Dodgers, The Times has learned. The bid terms proposed by the Burke group call for an all-cash payment to buy the Dodgers, all real ... Read More »
Yesterday’s shocking article by T.J. Simers about Andre Ethier’s knee had a lot of fans understandably asking a ton of questions of both him and the organization. Today, Tony Jackson got reactions out of Ned Colletti, Don Mattingly, and Andre Ethier. Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Andre Ethier met with team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Sunday morning for further ... Read More »
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