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We’ve been over the travesty of trading the Indians a better prospect for Casey Blake than they received for C.C. Sabathia a ton of times here, so I won’t bore you with it again. (Once again, this does not mean I hate Casey Blake. It means I ...
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Casey Blake
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Hey, our valiant commissioner Bud Selig is batting .333 this week! That’s All-Star level. Well, “tie in an All-Star game” level. And since he’s completely punchless, I’m sure that his line would somehow come out to .333/.333/.000, which isn’t even possible. ...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Bud Selig
Finally! This is the last player review segment of the year, and while I won’t pretend this one is the most interesting grouping of players you’ll read about all year, this whole series served its purpose. It allowed me to get some thoughts down on each player this year, and almost ...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Cory Wade
Brent Leach
Claudio Vargas
Will Ohman
Travis Schlichting
Back to the bullpen – part 2 of 3!
Jeff Weaver (A++)
(6-4, 3.65, 1.519 WHIP)
Here we have another case where keeping in mind how our judging system works is very important. It’s based on what we expected from a guy before the season, not on how he stacks up against anyone ...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Jeff Weaver
Guillermo Mota
Hong-Chih Kuo
James McDonald
Scott Elbert
We’ve got 14 pitchers who fit in the ‘relievers’ group, so we’re splitting them up into three groups. Today, you get the best of the best, and then the next two rounds, you get to wonder why I devoted entire posts to talking about Brent Leach and Travis Schlichting. ...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Ramon Troncoso
Ronald Belisario
Jonathan Broxton
George Sherrill
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The awards keep on coming – Matt Kemp
and Andre Ethier each get Silver Slugger awards ,
the first for a Dodger outfielder since Kirk Gibson in 1988. No complaining about these; both Dodgers finished in the top 6 among NL outfielders in ...
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Manny Ramirez: Officially the Worst Dodger Outfielder
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Before we get back to our season reviews,
two quick items: 1) Yes, I saw Plaschke’s article
about the 87-year-old Dodger scout who got his salary cut from $18,000 to $8,000, and yes, I share his disgust at the fact that this man who ...
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MSTI’s 2009 in Review: Secondary Starting Pitchers
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Hey, that Photoshop job didn’t actually come out
too badly! Anyway, it’s not verified yet, but Memories
of Kevin Malone is reporting that Orlando Hudson is not the only Dodger Gold Glove winner – Matt Kemp wins one too , and ...
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Matt Kemp, Gold Glover
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Sometimes democracy just doesn’t work. In this case,
it’s because postseason awards, voted on by humans, are
almost always insanely wrong. It’s with this in mind that I direct you to this scoop of a Tweet by AOL’s Jeff ...
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Orlando Hudson, “Golden” Glove?
Is it just me, or is the hot stove getting moving earlier than usual this year? We’ve already seen quite a few trades, and the World Series just ended about ten minutes ago. I suppose everyone’s frightened by what happened to guys like Orlando Hudson and Bobby Abreu last year and ...
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Alberto Callaspo
After a weekend out of town at a wedding (and by the way, Indianapolis, I respect that you love the Colts and all, but when every hotel desk clerk and airline ticket attendant are wearing Colts jerseys, and even the attractive women are wearing jerseys of the center , Jeff Saturday, it starts ...
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Chad Billingsley
Randy Wolf (A+)
(11-7, 3.23, 1.101 WHIP)
I’m not even sure an A+ really gets the job done here, considering that we’re judging guys on what we expected from them before the season. In Wolf’s case, since he was a free agent, I can tell you exactly what I expected from ...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Randy Wolf
Chad Billingsley
Clayton Kershaw
Hiroki Kuroda
Eric Stults
Randy Wolf (A+)
(11-7, 3.23, 1.101 WHIP)
I’m not even sure an A+ really gets the job done here, considering that we’re judging guys on what we expected from them before the season. In Wolf’s case, since he was a free agent, I can tell you exactly what I expected from ...
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Randy Wolf
Chad Billingsley
Clayton Kershaw
Hiroki Kuroda
Eric Stults
With the 2009 season finally in the books (seriously, any longer and the Phillies could have avoided going back home from the Bronx and just gone straight to Florida for spring training), the real fun starts. Well, first, a thought from Ken Tremendous on the future of the Yankees:
Congrats ...
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Jamie McCourt
Andre Ethier (A for Amazing!)
(.272/.361/.508 31hr 106rbi)
You know, we always try to keep our views here pinned in the realm of reality. Just because Mark Loretta won our hearts with the clutch single in NLDS Game 2, we couldn’t overlook the previous 6 months of awfulness. It works ...
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Andre Ethier
Mitch Jones
My, how times have changed. A year ago at this time , I was reviewing Matt Kemp and Andruw Jones in center field, and struggling to find the right way to describe Jones’ horrific year:
Andruw Jones (F)
(.158/.256/.249 3hr 14rbi)
No, that’s not quite right…
Andruw Jones ( )
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Matt Kemp
Jason Repko
Andruw Jones
Via Diamond Leung , Bob Keisser of the Riverside Press-Enterprise buries an interesting note deep within his column :
There’s finally some good news for Frank McCourt, although it could be considered bad news by some Dodgers fans.
A baseball insider says the club has been contacted ...
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Cleveland Indians
Manny Ramirez
Before we get into left field, I think I need to reiterate our grading scheme here, both because I’ve seen some misunderstandings in the comments and because it’s going to be more important for our left fielders than anyone. The letter grades are A) subjective, meaning ...
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Juan Pierre
Manny Ramirez
Welcome to day 5 of MSTI’s 2009 Year In Review. Have a good Halloween? Good! So as you sit there with your coffee, trying to sober up after your heavy partying last night, pull up a chair and join us, as we tackle SS! Let us begin:
Rafael Furcal = C-
(.269/.335/.375 9hr 47rbi) ...
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Rafael Furcal
Juan Castro
This has nothing to do with the Dodgers, is only tangentially baseball-related, and will only be funny to people like me who play first-person shooters like Call of Duty (and to top it off, has some NSFW language), but screw it: it’s a Halloween Saturday afternoon, and our team ...
