Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Neuromancer strikes my fancy
A few weeks ago Keith Law tweeted this lifehacker list of seminal Science Fiction books. From the age of 10 – 30 the only books I read were nature/baseball/science fiction/westerns so I thought I’d take a look at the list and see how many of them I read. Turns out I had read most of …
Three Dodgers get Cy Young votes
but they will have to settle for a 2nd place, a fifth place, and a tenth place. Scherzer in a rout over Kershaw, 27 first-place votes to three. Kershaw finishes second. Jansen fifth. pic.twitter.com/1oHXLXwXlV — Jon Weisman (@jonweisman) November 15, 2017 Have to imagine the last time the Diamondbacks had two pitchers place in the …
Cody Bellinger is more than just another LAD ROY
As expected Cody Bellinger unanimously won the National League Rookie of the Year award for 2017. Like Corey Seager he is more than that, he should be a top ten MVP candidate going forward. Given their ages, it can be expected that improvement will follow and that by the time they have played five seasons …
LAD Rookies of the Year
Should be adding a new player to the LAD Rookies of the Year later today, but this is how it looks right now. Position Players: Player ROY OPS+ PA Year Age HR OPS Pos Corey Seager 1st 137 687 2016 22 26 0.877 *6/H Todd Hollandsworth 1st 113 526 1996 23 12 0.785 *78H/9 Raul …
Dodger administration exodus continues
It is not surprising that a team that won 104 games is being raided as other teams try to emulate what the Dodgers have created. Now if they had 250M to spend on payroll and blow the doors off of foreign and infrastructure investment they might be able to actually catch them. The latest casualty …
Dodgers and Puig catch Wilson defensive team of year
It may not be a gold glove but Puig and the Dodgers where honored with the Wilson defensive awards today. The Dodgers won as the best overall defensive team while Puig was honored as the top right fielder. Winners, both individual positions and for the team award, are determined using a formula that combines traditional …
2017 Transactional review part one
The 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers had their most successful regular season since 1974, and their most successful postseason since 1988. They came within one game of achieving the goal of every major league franchise, the World Series Championship. Slowly I’m going to review all the moves that got them there, with columns for the big …
Did Puig measure up at age 26?
Back in February I asked if Puig could measure up to other LAD outfielders who had breakout seasons at the age of twenty-six? Even though his OPS+ was only 118, the growth he showed as the season progressed makes me say yes. He started out hitting eighth but by the time the Dodgers had gotten …
Will there be Morrow tomorrow?
Brandon Morrow and Yu Darvish are the two biggest Dodger free agents and both have stated they would like to return to the Dodgers. Morrow was on MLB Network Radio Brandon Morrow wants to re-sign with the #Dodgers pic.twitter.com/1osq9wzKy9 — MLB Network Radio (@MLBNetworkRadio) November 9, 2017 and said all the right things about returning including …
Puig can’t catch this gold glove
The best chance the Dodgers had for a gold glove this year was Yasiel Puig but he faced stiff competition in Jason Heyward, and it was Heyward who came up with the gold. It is easy to complain since we all saw Puig have an outstanding defensive season in right field. For my eyes, it …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 