Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Via) The 2023 free agent market has a long list of interesting pitchers, and the Dodgers have a desperate need for more pitching. While there are several top-tier …
Read More »Dodgers @ Cubs April 23, 2023: Maybe Win A Series
Photo: Sarah Wexler The Dodgers enter this afternoon’s series finale with the Cubs having not won consecutive games since April 3rd, 4th, and 6th, when they improved their record to …
Read More »Julio Urías has a new cutter
In his first career Opening Day start, Julio Urías began the night facing the Diamondbacks’ Kyle Lewis. After getting ahead 0-2, Urías threw a wicked pitch at Lewis’ back foot, …
Read More »Evaluating international free agent RHP Kodai Senga
When Shohei Ohtani was posted after the 2017 season, he was rightfully viewed as having the best fastball among NPB starting pitchers, and it wasn’t particularly close. His slider was …
Read More »Vin Scully and the little things
A framed poster is prominently displayed on my living room wall. It is a minimalist rendering of Dodger Stadium, lights protruding above the iconic hexagonal scoreboard. The scoreboard shows that …
Read More »Andrew Heaney Has A New Pitch
When the Dodgers signed Andrew Heaney to a one-year deal before the lockout, it was viewed as a low-risk signing centered around tapping into the flashes of upside he has …
Read More »Today has been a very bad day
It’s not often that a 24-hour period in the offseason can cause this much pain, but here we are. To recap, today: The Dodgers let future hall-of-famer Max Scherzer go …
Read More »How Kenley Jansen beat Joc Pederson with the season on the line
Fifty-one thousand people in the stadium were on edge. The Dodgers’ chance to stay in the series hung in the balance. They all knew what was coming. Joc Pederson was …
Read More »Kenley Jansen is doing more with less
While it obviously was not the main story in last night’s dramatic win over the Padres, Kenley Jansen‘s 10-pitch save was a fitting exclamation point. He threw 10 pitches and …
Read More »Blake Treinen might have a new slider
Photo: Stacie Wheeler Writing an analytically-tilted baseball article this time of season is extremely difficult. Doubly so when it’s about a relief pitcher. Samples are too small to mean much, …
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