Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Brandon Davis gets a little Baseball America love, while Omar Estevez hopes July never ends
The Great Lake Loons waltzed to a 13 – 1 win last night led by the double play combination of Brandon Davis and Omar Estevez. Not often you will feel the need to write about two players in low A ball hitting .233 and .237 respectively but these aren’t ordinary players. Estevez is only eighteen …
The writer finally gets his wish
Back in 2008 when Jay Bruce was the hottest thing in baseball and Matt Kemp was underappreciated in Los Angeles by just about every mainstream writer, I took exception to a column written on the now defunct SportshubLA run by the Kamentzky brothers. That particular writer (not the brothers) wrote about how the Dodgers needed …
Tradeable assets
Heading into the trading deadline weekend here are the currently tradeable assets that are not on the major league roster plus Ross Stripling. The MLB Ranking column is how major league baseball recently ranked the Dodger prospects. The Dodger farm system is loaded from top to bottom, with quality and quantity, so the Dodger front …
MLB Dodger top 30 prospect reveal
Always interesting to see how the prospects are ranked. MLB released their midseason top 30 today and it was cool. Worth clicking on with a small snapshot of each player. This will be helpful when some of these prospects are traded and you can see how they were ranked at the time of the trade. …
I’m going to miss the hell out of Joe Biden
I was saddened that after serving us well as Obama’s VP during the last eight years he was unable to bring himself to start a campaign to be the Democratic champion. His speech last night just proved to me what I’d been thinking for months, that if Biden was going against Trump he would crush …
Tulsa Trio Update – Bellinger slams 13th home run
All three of the Tulsa Trio picked up hits last night, but Cody Bellinger picked up the biggest hit with a grand slam and added a double for good measure making him the easy choice for PPOTD. Verdugo and Calhoun each had a hit to round out a productive evening for the trio. Chase De …
Jedd Gyorko now has five home runs in two doubleheaders
Last week Jedd Gyorko hit three home runs in a doubleheader. One in the first game and two in the second game. This week Gyorko once again went deep in both games of a doubleheader, giving Gyorko five home runs in two double headers. Gyorko has now hit seven home runs in his past nine …
Dodgers put the best day record on the line today at noon
The Dodgers are a season-high 13 games over .500 and you can thank their 17 – 8 record during the day for that lofty ranking. A lot is at stake during the day today, the Dodgers day time win % is .680 but the Giants are right behind them at .676. The Giants will also …
A.J. Ellis looking to score today
It has been twenty days since we last took a look at the amazing A.J. Ellis scoreless streak, and sadly Ellis has still yet to score a run moving up from 7th to 5th on the all time LAD leaderboard for at-bats without scoring a run. You could blame his teammates but the truth is that …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 