It’s baffling sometimes how things in baseball (and other sports) change. Not long ago, players didn’t debut the same year or the year after they were drafted. In football, the …
Read More »Andrelton Simmons and value to the Dodgers
Jonah Keri dropped the first bomb of the offseason on Wednesday night by tweeting about the Braves having trade talks with an NL West team revolving around Andrelton Simmons. Naturally, …
Read More »Darren O’Day Is Going to Get Four Years
Darren O’Day turned 33 last month, has never had more than six saves in a season, was undrafted out of college, was once a Rule 5 pick, and was twice …
Read More »Dave Roberts a leading candidate for Dodgers’ manager
I’m going to preface this with the fact that it came from a most unpleasant source, but it does appear Dave Roberts is one of the leading candidates for the …
Read More »The Dodger Bullpen Is Starting From a Better Place Than You’d Think
In 2014, the bullpen was an unholy mess that cost the Dodgers big in the playoffs, and so major changes were made. Of the seven relievers who had thrown at …
Read More »Get to Know This Year’s Foreign Imports: Kenta Maeda, Dae-ho Lee, Nobuhiro Matsuda
It’s that time of year again. Teams are looking for every solution to fill out their rosters. We all know about the big names on the market, and are hoping …
Read More »Looking at landing spots for Brett Anderson in free agency
If you had said to me last year Brett Anderson would be given a qualifying offer following the 2015 season, I’d have said he must have pitched well. He did, …
Read More »Anderson, Greinke, Kendrick All Get Qualifying Offers, Wisely
Howie Kendrick, Brett Anderson, and Zack Greinke have received qualifying offers of one year, $15.8 million from the Dodgers. Jimmy Rollins did not. Absolutely none of this is unexpected, because …
Read More »Dodgers Have Big Decisions To Make Today
I was going to write about the bullpen today, but that seems silly given that today is a pretty big day for decisions, and news could come out about them …
Read More »Dodgers could benefit from Royals’ contact-oriented approach
One thing was evident for the 2015 Dodgers: They struggled, at times, to make contact. The Royals just won the World Series by being one of the best bat-to-ball teams …
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