Category Archives: 2017 Dodgers
Keibert Ruiz sizzling in May
Last year at this time I’d never heard of Keibert Ruiz but by the end of the 2016 season he had become a hot prospect and quickly rose in the prospect ranking put out in the winter but didn’t crack any top ten lists. I bet that changes this summer. The eighteen-year-old catcher is destroying …
Buehler blows Cardinals off perch
Walker Buehler may not find any competition for his pitching repertoire until he hits the major leagues. Walker struck out nine of his eleven outs yesterday in AAA and there is already talk that the talented Buehler could be used in the Dodger bullpen come Sept. He clearly won’t be stretched out enough to be …
Ty Blach? Really?
Evidently, I had the wrong impression of Ty Blach. My impression was that the fill-in starter for the Giants was a journeyman left-hander who would get schooled by the Dodgers. The 26-year-old pitcher had been pressed into the Giant rotation when Madison Bumgarner decided his recreational needs were greater than the needs of this team. …
Can Rich Hill break DL losing streak?
So far in 2017, each pitcher that has started for the Dodgers after being on the 10-day DL have lost their first start. Strangely enough, it started with Rich Hill who had made only start in 2017 before he found his way on the 10-Day-DL. He came back to start on 4/16 and lost 3 …
Checking in on Mitch White
A few blurbs from national media on Mitch White after his superlative game list night in which he pitching seven innings for the first time in his professional career. Starting off with Baseball Prospectus: Mitchell White, RHP, Los Angeles Dodgers (High-A Rancho Cucamonga): 7 IP, ER, 3 H, 8 K White’s been on a hard …
Updated May Stats
Record: 22 – 16 Position: 2nd place, 1.5 games back of the Colorado Rockies Dodgers in May so far: Hitters: Rk Player Split Year OPS PA R H HR RBI BB SO OBP SLG 1 Brett Eibner May 2017 1.500 6 2 2 1 2 1 1 .500 1.000 2 Franklin Gutierrez May 2017 1.189 …
Roberts thinks it is 1966
and the Dodgers failed to take 1st place away from the Rockies falling in the final game and ending up splitting the series. Many things happened in this game, and I saw none of them after the 4th inning as I cut out to take my wife to an adult movie. When I say an …
Johan Mieses walks away with Weekly Farm Factory Award
You know you have been fairly horrific when you have a great week in early May and still have a batting average of .130. Whatever had been ailing the power hitting Mieses was finally put to bed with Mieses hitting four home runs in three days. Well, actually that is not true. Making contact …
Alex Wood joins Ramon Martinez
as a double-digit Coors master. Before the series started I posted the LAD leaderboard in strikeouts at Coors and was surprised to find that Ramon Martinez was the only Dodger to have double-digit strikeouts in a game at Coors. He is no longer alone after Alex Wood pitched a masterful game on Saturday night. Wood …
Masterson is masterful once again
The Dodgers rotation is so loaded they have to game the system to keep the seven legitimate rotation options on the major league roster which must leave Justin Masterson wondering how he’s going to crack the Dodger major league rotation. Masterson has done everything an NRI could do to bring attention to himself but in …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 