Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Chasing Piazza / Robinson / Green / McGwire with number 28
While doing this chase segment for Cody Bellinger I’ve been remiss in leaving out Frank Robinson and Wally Berger who both hold the NL rookie home run single season record of 38. With Joc Pederson and Corey Seager dropping off after Cody Bellinger hit his 27th home run on Sunday, I’ll add Frank Robinson to …
Crap, Kershaw goes down
Just a few days ago I was about to write about how the NL league leader in games started had bounced back quite nicely from his back troubles of a year ago. So much for that column. Guess we won’t have a Clayton Kershaw CYA debate again this year. Shooting from the hip I really …
Damn, I agree with Dylan
Dylan Hernandez has mostly become an annoying columnist following in the vein of TJ Simers since leaving the Dodger beat, but he does make a valid point in this column. The Dodgers should trade for Yu Darvish if he is available. I know that getting a relief pitcher like Andrew Miller is all the rage right …
LAD offensive July snapshot on July 24th, 2017
How about those catchers? More on that later today. Quick July offensive notes: Two players with an OPS over 1.000. The T & T boys Five players with an OPS over .900 Six starters with an OPS over .850 Puig and Pederson holding back the offense Four players with an OBP over .400 Trayce Thompson …
FFA Winner for Week of July 17th – July 23rd
The contenders are…… Wilmer Font – OKC – The starting pitcher in the PCL All-Star game twirled a gem last week going seven innings, giving up seven hits, two earned runs, one walk, and eleven strikeouts. In his last ten starts Font has only walked more than two hitters once as he has displayed an …
68 – 31, right on track after 4 – 2 week
Last Monday I ran a little exercise to see what it would take to get the Dodgers to 110 wins. I conservatively got them to 108 wins, and by going 4 – 2 this past week they are right on schedule. We didn’t get there the same way but nonetheless ended up 4-2. I expected …
Just another LAD July Triple leaderboard
When Chris Taylor hit his triple last night, that gave him three in the month of July. Which gave me an excuse to see who has hit the most LAD triples in the month of July. No surprise that the 3-Dog is tied at the top with Maury Wills. Who can forget triple fever with …
Chasing Piazza/Green/McGwire on July 23rd
With Cody Bellinger blasting his 27th home run of the year he surpasses the rookie totals of Corey Seager and Joc Pederson and continues to chase down the rookie record of 35 home runs by Mike Piazza. Cody has fallen far off the pace of the all time home run rookie record of 49 by …
Age 26 revisited with Chris Taylor and Ian Kinsler
Before the season started I mentioned how many Dodgers had their break out seasons as a twenty-six-year-old. I was focused on Yasiel Puig but maybe I should have focused on Chris Taylor. Watching Chris Taylor club another home run and triple last I heard that Ian Kinsler was being made available by the Tigers and …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 