Padres Dodgers 7:10 p.m. PT Los Angeles CF Jay 2B Utley 1B Myers SS Seager RF Kemp 3B Turner LF Upton 1B Gonzalez C Norris RF Puig SS Ramirez C …
Read More »Dodgers @ Padres April 6, 2016: Maeda’s Turn To Debut
Dodgers Padres 6:05 p.m. PT San Diego 2B Utley CF Jay SS Seager 2B Spangenberg 3B Turner RF Kemp 1B Gonzalez 1B Myers RF Puig 3B Solarte LF Crawford C …
Read More »Scott Kazmir’s Velocity is Down, But it Might Not Matter
Scott Kazmir‘s velocity is down. We can actually say that with certainty now. He isn’t saving it for the regular season anymore, so we have data to look at that …
Read More »Dodgers @ Padres April 5, 2016: Scott Kazmir Debuts
It seems like there’s usually a day off after opening day to recharge after the rapid onslaught of baseball. Not this year. The Dodgers have had less than 24 hours to …
Read More »Where Are Carlos Frias’ Strikeouts?
Carlos Frias is suddenly a very important man. Coming into spring training, he was buried deep on the Dodgers’ starting pitcher depth chart. He filled the fifth starter role in …
Read More »2015 Positional Review: Center Field
After significant struggles at the position in 2014, the Dodgers staked their fortunes in the rookie Joc Pederson. When that faltered (or when he needed a day off), they turned …
Read More »Alex Wood Was Playing Hurt Last Season
Normally this early in Spring Training, most news stories aren’t actually all that important. Somebody’s in the best shape of his life, somebody else is fat, and Josh Collmenter is …
Read More »Yulieski and Lourdes Gurriel Have Defected From Cuba and the Dodgers Should Be Interested
Yesterday morning began with some big, big news in the international baseball community: the Gurriel brothers (Yulieski and Lourdes, previously known as Yulieski Gourriel and Lourdes Gourriel before losing an …
Read More »Yimi Garcia’s Hidden Regression
Yimi Garcia is an extremely interesting pitcher. As a result, we write about him a lot. Early last year, he looked like one of the very best relievers in baseball. He …
Read More »There Are Concerns About Kenta Maeda’s Elbow, Because of Course There Are
In this offseason, could you really expect anything else? Jerry Crasnick passes on some information on why it’s taking so long to finish the extremely weird Kenta Maeda deal: Source …
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