Category Archives: 2017 Dodgers
LAD FFA June 19th-June 25th
Contenders for the LAD Weekly Farm Factory Award for the week ending June 25th: Alex Verdugo collected twelve hits, including five multi-hit games, and walked four times to boot. Over his last ten games, Alex has gone 21 for 42. He’s now pushed his June OPS to 1.043 and overall OPS to .880. Walker Buehler …
Justin Turner is giving batting average new life
Batting average isn’t the end all anymore when it comes to evaluating the kind of season a player is having but it is can still catch the fans imagination when a player flirts with the magic .400 season. Justin Turner is still at .387, and as the calendar turns to late June he could set …
Alex Wood finds home cooking to his taste
Right now Alex Wood has a career ERA at Dodger Stadium of 1.78 which would place him 6th on the all-time list for pitchers who have made at least 10 starts at Dodger Stadium. The only Dodgers on this list are Sandy Koufax and Alex Wood. Heady company indeed. Anyone who watched J. R. Richard …
Dodger notes as they take aim on the Rockies
Lots of great stuff came through the daily Dodger press release this afternoon. One of the great secrets of a Dodger broadcast is that the Dodgers provide boatloads of stats for the broadcasters to refer to during a game. You can be sure that Joe and Orel will sample many of the stats found below. …
Is Puig the best 8th hitter?
Much has been made about the success that Puig is having hitting out of the eight hole, which led me to wonder if Puig was the best eight hitter in baseball? The simple answer is no. He is, however, one of the best. I used 50 PA as the criteria for this which might be …
Fourteen days of glory
This is what it looks like when everyone is hitting. Enjoy it, because it rarely happens that the top of the lineup is in synch with the middle of the lineup, while still having the bottom of the lineup cleaning everything up. Using Fangraphs once again for their fourteen-day splits: I know it is just …
Dodger offense blowing like a Santa Ana
Dodger fans have seen Dodger hot streaks before but I’m not sure they have seen this kind of hot streak. June started off with the normal June gloom but as the weather turned hot, so have the Dodger bats. Fueled by the greatest collection of young talent since the Piazza/Mondesi/Karros days the Dodgers have been …
Dennis Santana opens eyes in California League All-Star game
According to Kyle Glaser of Baseball America, Dennis Santana opened some eyes with his one inning of work in the California League All-Star game. • Rancho Cucamonga righthander Dennis Santana opened eyes, sitting in the mid-90s with his sinker and flashing a devastating low-80s slider and mid-80s changeup. The Dodgers prospect struck out two in …
Dustin May / Brendon Davis shine in MWL All-Star game
Dustin May got the start for the East in the MWL All-Star game and pitched one scoreless inning. Brendon Davis made the most of his one at-bat in the MWL All-Star game, crushing a home run to CF as a pinch hitter. Alexis Brudnicki of Baseball America said it was the longest home run of …
Did the Dodgers snag George Springer for nothing?
Jeff Sullivan did an exhaustive look at the stats of Chris Taylor for Fangraphs on Tuesday. Joe Davis mentioned the story last night either before or after Chris Taylor crushed a home run to deep left field. Joe mentioned that the writer came to the conclusion that the hitter that most Chris Taylor most resembles …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 