Category Archives: 2017 Baseball
Rickey Nolasco opening day starter and he deserves it
When Nolasco was announced yesterday as the Angel opening day pitcher it seemed to be met with a touch of ridicule. Maybe we should look back at the summer of 2016 and see who made the better decision. The Dodger front office or the Angel front office? The Dodgers dipped into the deep farm system …
Hey look, Ronald Torreyes starting SS for the NYY
Old friend Ronald Torreyes has parlayed the injury to Didi Gregorius into the starting SS gig for the NYY. By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com | @BryanHoch | 9:45 AM ET + 49 COMMENTS With the injury to Didi Gregorius, what do you see the Yankees doing at shortstop? And if they go with Tyler Wade …
LAD Prop Bets for 2017
You might know by now I’m a betting person, and while I don’t always bet I always like to look at the odds. Below are the odds for the 2017 MLB season brought to you by Bovada, (www.Bovada.lv, Twitter: @BovadaLV). I’ll only list the odds relevant to the LAD (and Matt Kemp). Who would you …
Andrew Heaney might be on to something
Pedro Moura wrote a column yesterday about Andrew Heaney and the unique contract he signed with Fantex that left me wondering if maybe Andrew Heaney started something that might become commonplace. eighteen months ago, Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney agreed to commit 10% of his future earnings to investors in exchange for $3.34 million up front. It …
Unscientific analysis has Dodgers winning another Western Division
For years I’ve done a silly little analysis before the start of the year to determine the Dodgers fate in the Western Division. What I do is take the five NL Western Division team and compare them numerically from 1 – 5 with 5 being best at each position. I like to think I’ve always been objective …
WBC Goliath slays David
The entertaining 2017 WBC ended last night with the United States clobbering Puerto Rico 8 – 0 ending the surprising undefeated run by the Puerto Rican team. Marcus Stroman bounced back from his previous humiliation at the hands of the Puerto Rican team to no-hit them for six innings and the bats did the rest. …
Alternative Cuban WBC team
Was just wondering what a Cuban team would look like for Cuban players who have left the island. Here is what I got. A very potent offensive team, but without Jose Fernandez to lead the rotation, it is very thin in starting pitching. You would basically have to convert Raisel Iglesias back to a starting pitcher. Simply …
Kershaw 33/1 to win MVP
Bovada odds came out today and this one jumped out at me. The 2014 MVP Clayton Kershaw is at 33/1. I know pitchers don’t win MVP awards, but this guy already did, and it is the NL, and he could easily be the best player in the NL again in 2017. Corey Seager is 12/1 …
Treasonist?
I’m enjoying the WBC but some of my fellow Americans might think I’m a tad unpatriotic because I simply can’t find it in me to root for the US team. Watching little countries bring down big countries has always made my heart smile. Of course, when a country like the DR has a lineup that …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 