Monthly Archives: May, 2008
What The Hell Happened To Brad Penny? | On Jason Schmidt
After yesterdays loss at the New York Mets The Dodgers supposed “ace” of their starting rotation has a record of 5-6 and an ERA of 5.66!
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As a side note I should mention that Derek Lowe was going to be a part of this post but he saved himself from the humiliation by going 7 innings [...]
Clayton Kershaw And Chad Billingsley Are The Future Of The LA Dodgers
Living in LA and being a Dodgers fan has been hard lately particularly with the crosstown rivals the Los Angeles Angels (by the way shout out to a fellow Blogger at: Angels Baseball Talk) boasting such hot, young pitchers like Jered Weaver, Joe Saunders and Ervin Santana…
Well… This weekend the LA Dodgers displayed 2 [...]
Early Season Surprises For The Los Angeles Dodgers
There’s no doubt in my mind that the biggest surprise in this young Los Angeles Dodgers season is 3rd Baseman Blake Dewitt.
Blake DeWitt is currently hitting .320 with just over 100 at bats and he seems to have won over the confidence of Dodger manager Joe Torre and Dodgers brass as they’ve basically left former [...]
Rafael Furcal Is The Los Angeles Dodgers Early Season MVP
It’s pretty obvious to me who the Los Angeles Dodgers early season MVP is… Rafael Furcal.
Rafael Furcal has missed the last five Dodger games due to lower back pain (he was placed on the 15 day DL yesterday retro to May 6) and the Los Angeles Dodgers are 0-5 with him out of the lineup!
Rafael [...]
Fat Boy Andruw Jones Belongs On The Bench
Personally I don’t think I’m at a point where I can say that Los Angeles Dodgers Centerfielder Andruw Jones is done and that he should call it a career but I do think the guy is out of shape, he’s fat and it’s causing him to:
lose the bat speed he needs to make good contact [...]
Updates On Clayton Kershaw And Jason Schmidt
Los Angeles Dodgers GM Ned Colletti went down to Jacksonville (Double-A) to watch Clayton Kershaw pitch and Kershaw responded by throwing 6 2/3 innings of one run ball…
What’s interesting is that Clayton kershaw’s next couple of outings in Jacksonville will be out of the bullpen… Obviously the Dodgers want to see how he’ll adapt to [...]