Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Pitching fWAR in the twenty-tens decade
Bobby Down in the comments at http://www.truebluela.com posted the top fWAR for players in this decade. With his permission lets take a look at the pitchers. Below are the top 20 pitchers sorted by fWAR showing any top ten finishes in fWAR for that season. Clayton Kershaw had the best fWAR in 2016 even though …
Morrow is today
I have a long history of liking injury prone pitchers and rarely do they pay off. Josh Johnson Brett Anderson Ben Sheets Brandon Morrow are the four who come to mind and all of them left me looking silly. I have to keep that in mind as I continue to hope that Ryu can defy …
He pitched his guts out!
I’m stealing this line from my friend Gary regarding Frias and his long-running oblique injury in 2016 which eventually sealed the deal for his DFA this past week to make room for our new minor league right-hand hitting outfielder Brent Eibner Frias was once mentioned in a fangraphs article by Carson Cistulli which felt he could …
I’ve got no Mastercard
Dodgers pre-sales for 2017 goes on today, but only for owners of a MasterCard. As a valued Mastercard® cardholder, you have the opportunity to purchase Dodgers home game tickets for the 2017 season, excluding Opening Day, before the general public. Wednesday, January 25 10:00am Purchase tickets to all Dodgers home games, excluding Opening Day The …
Ryu and Trayce working their way back to you Babe
Two key players who the Dodgers are hoping to contribute in 2017 but not counting on are doing their best to be parts of the World Champion effort of 2017. Yoo Jee-ho reports that Hyun-jin Ryu claims to be pain-free and ready for spring training. “Right now, I’d say I am in better shape than …
Dodgers get their Logan
Everyone can now put to rest who the Dodger 2nd baseman will be in 2017 as the Dodgers acquired Logan Forsythe from the Tampa Bay Rays. The one-time utility player for the San Diego Padres found a Justin Turner type renaissance with the Rays and has been the starting second baseman for the Rays the …
Chris Thile and the new PHC show
Garrison Keillor gave up the Praire Home Companion show and now ponders giving up Christianity. So I’ve been shopping around for a new religion to see me through the next four years. Too many of my fellow Christians voted for selfishness and for degradation of the beautiful world God created. I guess they figured that …
Education Education
Nice to read that my old working class college California State University Los Angeles is still doing good things for the middle and lower classes. The California State college systems were the only colleges that I’d been able to afford or even get into for me. Full-time employment while hitting college these working colleges are …
Now for something completely different
Right now the Dodgers options for second base are Enrique Hernandez, Chris Taylor, Willie Calhoun, and in theory Austin Barnes. Ken Rosenthal chimes in recently on who the Dodgers might be targeting for second base now that the Dozier talks have cooled off. He mentioned names like Most of the Dodgers’ preferences are not known, …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 