Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Max Muncy and Dylan Covey have a bit in common besides that “y” at the end of their name.
Max Muncy and Dylan Covey were both drafted fairly high by the Oakland Athletics and both are now producing at the major league level for other organizations while Oakland got little to nothing in return. Most Dodger fans by now, know that Max Muncy was cut loose by the Oakland Athletics after being drafted by …
Joc is on an extra base hit tear
At this point, you could write about every Dodger starter and find something amazing but today I’ll focus on Joc. Since Joc Pederson showed up as a full-time player in 2015 we have learned several things about our Joc. He is one streaky dude. One moment (for long swaths of at-bats) Joc looks very much …
Evidently, Max Muncy can do everything
This is getting beyond the ridiculous. Max Muncy came into yesterday’s game with the best OPS+ of any National League hitter with at least 150 plate appearances. He had appeared in 23 games at 3rd base, 18 games at 1st base, and 5 games in the outfield. He started yesterday at 2nd base. And hit …
Caleb Ferguson ignites Dodger offense
Caleb Ferguson has now started two games and gotten a total of seventeen outs but the team has scored twenty-three runs in both of his starts. Can you imagine how many games Clayton Kershaw would have won in a month if the team had scored twenty-three runs in a month back when he was the …
We are all living in Muncy town
At least Matt Kemp has done this before. I’m wagering this is the greatest 150 plate appearance stretch of Max Muncy’s professional career and he decided to do it, at the highest level. Baseball is weird, but this, this is beyond that. Player OPS+ OPS PA Year Age Tm Max Muncy 175 1.011 152 2018 …
Finally, it appears to be Manny Bañuelos time
[Caleb Ferguson was recalled today so everything I wrote below is a moot point] It has almost been ten years since a Manny was rocking Dodger Stadium but as of right now it looks like the Dodgers will be dipping once again into the Oklahoma rotation and finally giving Manny Bañuelos his shot this coming …
Edwin Rios trying to make up for lost opportunity
By all rights, the call to Oklahoma for Max Muncy should have gone to Edwin Rios the 2016 Dodgers position prospect of the year. The problem for Rios was that he wasn’t at Oklahoma to accept the call, instead, he was rehabbing in Arizona. Rios could only think of what could have been as Max …
JUNE DINGERS
It isn’t your imagination if you think this version of the Los Angeles Dodgers loves the month of June. It was the same for this group in June of 2017 when they slugged fifty-three home runs. Of course, home runs aren’t the only offensive stat, and they actually had a better OPS in July while …
Grandal has passed Mike Scioscia on the LAD Catcher Home Run Leaderboard
Actually, Grandal passed Mike much earlier this year but his two home runs last night made me look up the LAD catcher home run leaderboard and I just now noticed that Grandal had passed Scioscia. Grandal came into the year with 65 Dodger home runs and has hit eleven this year to give him 76. Mike Scioscia …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 