Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Can Trevena revolutionize pain medicine?
Trevena is one of my favorite stock to follow in 2017 for two reasons. As a speculative stock, this investment is Mark Trumbo in that it can either hit a mega bagger home run or strike out four times leaving you with nothing. This pharma has the ability to change how acute pain medicine is delivered …
Sleeping with Under Armour and Tom Brady
Under Armour has announced their pajamas created in conjunction with Tom Brady to get you a better night sleep, so when you slip back to hit your favorite target in the end zone you won’t have those sleep devils troubling your vision. The six-part Tom Brady system for a better sleep to help you become a better …
No reunion with Rubby
Old friend Rubby De La Rosa re-signed with the Diamondbacks on a minor league deal this past week. His late season arm issues put a damper on his services but in a winter where pitching is at a premium, I’m still surprised that all he was able to muster was a minor league deal. De …
We have some answers
Back in November, I asked these questions and while we don’t have all the answers we have a few: Will the Dodgers go hard after their free agents since they don’t have any current replacements for either player and both players were at least in the top five at their position? – Yes, they signed …
Players Who Died, died
The madcap poetic romp through Jim Carrol’s People who Died, died always struck me long before I knew anything about the Basketball Diaries. Jim wrote this iconic song in 1980, and Jim himself died in 2009 of a simple heart attack. People live, people die, these are the baseball players who died in 2016, and here …
Alex Wood’s time may be now
When you play the what if game for 2016, Alex Wood plays a prominent part in my mind. If not for the injury would Wood have kept pitching at a high level as he had from April 29th – May 30th before going down with the elbow debridement? Could a healthy Wood have helped the …
Rotational Depth?
Depending on who you ask the Dodgers have plenty of pitching or not enough. This comes up because as the Dozier talks heat up I hear several arguments. The Dodgers should be targeting more pitching not hitting The Dodgers should not be trading almost major league talents like De Leon and Stewart for hitting even …
Vin Scully up for Californian of the Year
In an effort to expand my echo chamber I started a digital subscription to the NY Times. The second biggest benefit to this digital subscription has been a daily update of California Today. On Dec 12th, they announced a contest for Californian of the Year with the following request: In that spirit, we’d like to …
Hurlers for hire
You can’t seem to check in on daily baseball transactions without being hit by an ex-Dodger hurler being signed. Either these pitchers were bonafide free agents, or were simply released by their previous team. There are so many I couldn’t decide if I should list them alphabetically or chronological. Several former number one picks on …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 