Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
A Triple A bonanza of riches
Having followed the Dodgers for 55 plus years now, the winter of 2023 is unique to me in that the Dodgers have a plethora of actual pitching prospects who are banging on the major league door. By plethora I mean TEN, we are lucky to usually have one or two. Several of these pitchers have …
Dodgers Bautista win 2023 Dominican Summer League Championship
by beating the Pirates two games to one in the three game Championship series. The Dodgers lost the first game of the series 7 – 5, but won the 2nd game 7 – 5 by scoring 3 runs in the bottom of the 8th. In the final game, they scored 4 quick runs, and broke …
Eduardo Quintero Dominican Summer League MVP?
The Rookie leagues for 2023 are done, and since the Dodgers had so many interesting players on their two Dominican League teams along with the Arizona Complex League, I thought I’d take a stroll through the stats and see what stood out. Nobody stood out more than 17-year-old Eduardo Quintero who dominated the Dominican Summer …
Down Season!!!! Not so fast
The Dodgers won 111 games in 2022, yet most folks had the Dodgers between 88 – 94 wins headed into the 2023 season. As recently as last week Fangraphs pegged the Dodgers with 84 wins just one month into the season. At that point the Dodgers were 13 – 13 and had just been embarrassed …
No one had a better run, than Vin Scully
You don’t mourn a person who lived the life of Vin Scully, you celebrate it. Vin was 94 when he passed away last night, his beloved wife had left him a few years before and he was ready to join her. He had one of the great categorical runs of all time. He had nothing …
Will Smith Appreciation Page
As Will Smith continues to hit home runs every game we thought it might be a good time to show some love for the underrated slugging catcher. The first table compares Will Smith against other Dodger catchers at a similar age which is 26. Player HR PA OPS+V From To Age 2B BA OBP SLG …
Field of Dreams
The Field of Dreams game and this Calvin and Hobbs timely comic strip made me write what I’ve dreaded writing about for almost a year. Many people like to rank this movie compared to other baseball movies but I think those folk have always missed the boat. For me, this movie was always about a …
What a game 4
The Dodgers lost last night but baseball won with the most entertaining postseason game of 2020. If the Rays go on to win the World Series the walk play in Game 4 will become historical, if they don’t it will merely be a footnote, but what a footnote. So much had to to happen for …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 