Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Allen Craig / Justin Turner – My oh My
I always wondered what kind of contract Allen Craig would have gotten had he hit free agency after his three-year run from 2011 – 2013 as Justin Turner has done instead of signing that 5/31 deal in the spring of 2013. 5/80 maybe? I remembered Craig having a nice run for the Cardinals after coming …
110 IP gets you 3/48
By many accounts, Rich Hill is a great guy, great competitor, fun to watch pitch, and now very wealthy. Perseverance paid off for Rich Hill when he inked a 3/48 deal with the Dodgers today. For the time being, Hill slots into the number two behind Clayton Kershaw in the Dodger 2017 rotation. As noted earlier …
Hill/Turner/Jansen – what a bizzare trio
The LAD have three big free agents this season and all three of them are as unlikely as they come. At some point, all three of them had to think their major league careers were either over, never going to happen, or be satisfied with making a team every spring. By the end of this …
Who will stay, who will go
The hot stove is heating up and by the end of the week, it appears very likely that the Dodgers will be adding some new blood while saying good-bye to old friends, or never were friends. This is an exciting time for fans but a strange week for players as they wait to see where …
Young guns for hire
Once upon a time the minor league fireballing heroics of Nathan Eovaldi, Rubby De La Rosa, and Chris Withrow made Dodger prospect hounds salivate with the idea of adding these three high-velocity prospects to the Dodger rotation. All three have several things in common: Each of them was a top five Dodger prospect Each of them …
Trading Places – Don Ameche for the win
No, Don Ameche is not the right-hand bat the Dodgers seek, and no, this is not Dodger trade talk. This is about one of my favorite all time movies, Trading Places. Why would I write about Trading Places now you ask? Because someone brought up Dick Van Dyke at TBLA and for some reason, my …
Trade Talk Time
With the winter meetings around the corner a few pieces are falling into place for other baseball teams but the Dodgers have yet to make any moves beyond Rule 5 decisions, and minor league transactions. One of the vexing problems for the Dodgers this off-season will be how to add some right-hand pop to the …
Is Cody Bellinger just another glorified James Loney?
As Cody Bellinger’s prospect stock continues to rise, I’ve started to hear two things that intrigue me. He should be untouchable because of his perfect timeline within the Dodger organization. He’s basically a hyped James Loney His timeline does in fact, match up perfectly for the Dodgers. Adrian Gonzalez will be off the books at …
McCutchen is not an old 30
One of the most famous trades of the past 60 years occurred in the winter of 1965 when the Reds traded future HOF Frank Robinson to the Baltimore Orioles for Milt Pappas. The Red General Manager Bill DeWitt made the famous comment that Robinson “was an old 30”. At that point the soon to be …
Merkel Merkel
For all my German friends As the Dodgers get started on their free agency spending spree, it is good to remember they are “the honey with the money”.
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 