Dodger Thoughts: On the Chin

6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog found this 5/18/2008 on dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com [flag]

Part of the reason we keep seeing players like Gary Bennett and Luis Maza in the Dodger starting lineup and Russell Martin at third base has been Joe Torre's loss of faith in Chin-Lung Hu. [link]

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Joe Torre Gets Serious: Dodgers 6, Angels 3
Published 5/18/2008 by Rob (noreply@blogger.com) at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... Others have suggested elsewhere that Andy LaRoche should start playing second base, especially in light of Torre's loss of faith in Chin-Lung Hu at short. Just so, then. This team desperately needs a wheat-from-chaff moment, particularly in the Vetruhn Presence Dep't, but if somehow LaRoche can dislodge an ineffective Jeff Kent from his sinecure at second, well, bully for him and the Dodgers. ...

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