This right here, this is good news: The Dodgers will start Hyun-jin Ryu in their domestic regular season opener on Sunday night against the Padres at Petco Park. The southpaw cracked his right big toenail while …
Read More »Josh Beckett Starts Game With Thumb Injury, Leaves Game With Thumb Injury
Josh Beckett started today’s game suffering from a sprained thumb on his pitching hand. He left today’s game early due to the thumb. Who would’ve thought that pitching while injured …
Read More »2014 Spring Training preview: Starting pitchers
Age IP K/9 BB/9 ERA FIP xFIP WAR Clayton Kershaw 26 2013 236 8.8 2.0 1.83 2.39 2.88 6.5 ’14 ZiPS 227.1 9.2 2.1 2.26 2.55 N/A 5.7 ’14 Steamer …
Read More »Fifth Starter Day: Good For Maholm, Less So For Beckett
Josh Beckett faced 14 batters tonight against Seattle. Seven reached base, and while that’s bad, look at it this way: only four stayed there! …because three (Jesus Montero, Stefen Romero, …
Read More »Josh Beckett’s Mechanics And Surgery Recovery
Dodgers Angels 12.05 p.m. PT Tempe, Az. CF Puig RF Calhoun C Ellis CF Trout SS Ramirez 3B Freese 1B Gonzalez …
Read More »Beckett & Maholm return in style, Guerrero needs sliding practice
The Dodgers tied today’s Spring Training bout against the Padres, 3-3, but it’s the Cactus League, so who cares? The main takeaway from today is that Josh Beckett certainly looked …
Read More »Matt Magill should be Dodgers’ No. 5 starter in April
I know I’m going to catch a lot of flak for this, but Matt Magill should be the Dodgers’ No. 5 starter to begin the season.I’ll wait for you to …
Read More »Pitcher Hitting – The Dodgers’ Secret Weapon?
The Dodgers’ current starting rotation is shaping up to be one of the strongest in the league. Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Dan Haren, and Josh Beckett is a …
Read More »Do The Dodgers Really Need Another Starter?
So, this is a pretty good start to a rotation: 1) Clayton Kershaw 2) Zack Greinke 3) Hyun-jin Ryu 4) Dan Haren The top two are almost unarguably the best …
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