G IP K% BB% ERA FIP xFIP WAR MLB 68 65.1 37.7% 7.1% 2.76 1.91 1.93 1.7 What Happened In 2014: Kenley Jansen had a fascinating year. While he had …
Read More »Dodgers Avoid Arbitration Entirely, Because Dodgers
Like the Dodgers were really going to go to arbitration, right? In the days after coming to terms on one-year deals with A.J. Ellis and Chris Heisey, the Dodgers have …
Read More »Kenley Jansen, Justin Turner among four to file for arbitration
It went somewhat unnoticed on Tuesday, but the Dodgers had four players file for arbitration, sans A.J. Ellis, who agreed to a $4.25 million contract for 2015. Chris Heisey, Kenley …
Read More »Dodgers sign Darwin Barney, tender contracts to remaining 7 eligible for arbitration
The Dodgers went right down to the midnight deadline for tendering contracts to unsigned players on the 40-man roster, and they had to make a decision on eight players eligible …
Read More »Projected Dodger Arbitration Salaries For 2015
If you didn’t already know this, we keep an updated list of Dodger salary commitments for the next few years right on this very site. (“Doesn’t Cots do that,” you …
Read More »Nationals 8, Dodgers 5: The Game That Broke Baseball
You probably already know that this game was crazy-pants insane. I could, and perhaps should, just throw this all away and start from scratch, focusing on the high points rather …
Read More »Kenley Jansen’s Other Pitch
Kenley Jansen is one of the best relievers in baseball. This season, in some ways, he has been better than ever, posting a career low xFIP and career high swinging …
Read More »Padres 6, Dodgers 5: The Dodgers Ruined Your Friday Night
Here’s the fun thing about a game blown in the ninth: it doesn’t change what came before it. So yeah, you only care about the ninth inning. I know this. …
Read More »In Which Clayton Kershaw And Kenley Jansen Imitate One Another
From the always entertaining and completely unofficial “Dodger Films,” here’s a link worth sharing: Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen goofing around before a recent game, attempting to imitate each other, and …
Read More »Reminder, Kenley Jansen Is Still The Best
Over at FanGraphs this morning, I investigated the Kenley Jansen narrative of “he’s throwing harder, so his cutter is worse, so that’s why he’s getting hit hard!” Which makes all …
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