Category Archives: 2017 Dodgers
Chase Utley joins the 400/200/100 club for 2nd baseman
With his two doubles today, Chase Utley now has 400 doubles in his career. Many second baseman have had 400 doubles, but not many have had 400 doubles 200 home runs 100 stolen bases who have played at least 75% of their games at second base. Player WAR/pos HR 2B SB From To PA OPS …
Dodgers need the return of the four horsemen
Sure, this is obvious. One of the horsemen was back but hardly anyone noticed because the team kept losing. The second one joined him this week and it directly resulted in two victories for the Dodgers. If they hope to have any chance in October it would behoove the other two horsemen to join Bellinger/Turner …
Dodgers becoming a punching bag for NL West
On Sunday, August 27th, the Dodgers played their last game against the NL Central losing to the Brewers 3 – 2. On August 25th the Dodgers had a 21 game lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Since August 27th the Dodgers have only played NL West teams: The Diamondbacks swept the Dodgers in Arizona outscoring the …
September fools
I don’t know why the Dodgers decided to stop hitting as a team but this is why the team has won only one game in Sept and that was the 1 – 0 game on Sept 1st. Player Split HR PA 2B RBI BB BA OBP SLG OPS Chris Taylor Sept/Oct 1 23 1 1 …
Is AAA/OKC where Dodger outfielders go to die?
Normally when a proven major league outfielder struggles and gets sent to AAA they blow back up and are quickly promoted back to the major leagues. Case in point Keon Broxton of the Brewers was their starting CF for most of the season. In an extended slump, Broxton was sent to AAA on July 21st …
About that Pythag!!!
That record breaking season the Dodgers were headed for has hit a brick wall named Arizona. When the Dodgers won their 90th game on August 24th, you saw plenty of tweets about how the Dodgers only needed to go 10 – 26 to reach 100 wins. Or 15 – 21 to reach 105 wins, or …
Dodgers reward Brett Eibner
with his release. The AAA outfielder was asked to pitch by the Dodgers this summer and did so, eventually blowing out his arm and requiring Tommy John surgery. Today the Dodger designated him for assignment. They could have put him on the 60 Day Dl, but they choose not to. I guess to make up …
Route 66 has a quirky problem
Jeff Sullivan was the man for the job. I had just visited Fangraphs and couldn’t figure out why Puig had such a low fWAR for a man having his season. It just so happened that Jeff Sullivan was wondering the same thing and looked into it and found that Puig has one glaring problem this season. …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 