Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
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”.
Nathan Eovaldi hits free agency
The NYY designated old friend Nathan Eovaldi making him an interesting free agent in this year of very few interesting free agents. Eovaldi is recovering from TJ surgery and is expected to miss all of 2017 so any team that signs him would need to sign him to a minimum two-year deal. I’m not that …
A winter of decisions
Will Kenley Jansen or Justin Turner stay or go? I think this winter will finally give us a real clue about how the Dodger front office plans to build the Dodger team now and in the future. Last year the Dodgers went hard after Grienke but not hard enough to keep him from heading off …
Mo Mo Mo
As the Clippers look for their 5th straight season with 50 plus victories there is no more looking back, no matter how often clueless fans want to remind Clippers fans of their sordid past. Like the Dodgers, the Clippers will be hoping to extend their postseason in 2017 beyond the 1st or 2nd round. …
Kyle Farmer makes the cut
It was obvious the Dodgers were going to add Chase De Jong, and possibly Jacob Rhame to the 40 man roster yesterday but it seemed doubtful that Kyle Farmer would also make the list. Today, Farmer can look at the Dodger 40-man roster and see his name for the first time. This was the press …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 