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, …
Read More »The moment Clayton Kershaw changed everything
Many World Series have a defining play, the moment that will instantly come to mind when thinking about it in the distant future. While the 2020 World Series had such …
Read More »Clayton Kershaw’s somewhat new weapon in his fight against predictability
On Tuesday evening in Game 1 of the World Series, Clayton Kershaw made one of the biggest starts of his life. It was a bad matchup on paper: the Rays …
Read More »More thoughts on Kenley Jansen’s recent issues
Photo: Stacie Wheeler Kenley Jansen made his first appearance of the NLCS last night, in the sixth inning with a 14 run lead. The inning was designed to boost his …
Read More »Something might be wrong with Kenley Jansen
In recent postseasons, one of the Dodgers’ main mantras has been “The Dodgers can go as far as Kenley Jansen will carry them.” When Jansen was in his hall-of-fame caliber …
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