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Chris Thile and the new PHC show
Garrison Keillor gave up the Praire Home Companion show and now ponders giving up Christianity. So I’ve been shopping around for a new religion to see me through the next four years. Too many of my fellow Christians voted for selfishness and for degradation of the beautiful world God created. I guess they figured that …
Education Education
Nice to read that my old working class college California State University Los Angeles is still doing good things for the middle and lower classes. The California State college systems were the only colleges that I’d been able to afford or even get into for me. Full-time employment while hitting college these working colleges are …
Now for something completely different
Right now the Dodgers options for second base are Enrique Hernandez, Chris Taylor, Willie Calhoun, and in theory Austin Barnes. Ken Rosenthal chimes in recently on who the Dodgers might be targeting for second base now that the Dozier talks have cooled off. He mentioned names like Most of the Dodgers’ preferences are not known, …
Ex-Dodgers receive 334 HOF votes
The complete list of 2017 HOF votes Jeff Kent – 74 votes (16.7%) Manny Ramirez – 105 votes (23%) Gary Sheffield – 59 votes (13.3%) Fred McGriff – 96 votes (21.7) Casey Blake and JD Drew got zip Dodger killer of dreams Matt Stairs got zip Gary Sheffield has quite a HOF case and gets …
LAD second base has a fine history, Part Two
Last week I took a look at the greatest LAD 2nd baseman using OPS+ to display the best seasons and best careers. Today we will use bWAR to examine the same seasons, and careers which will show huge differences since bWAR incorporates all of a players production, not just the offensive side. As you can see, …
What does Puig/Harper/Stanton/Cutch have in common?
Andrew Simon of MLB.com thinks that all of these players are candidates to bounce back in 2017. That isn’t a very big limb to climb out on. Harper is just one year removed from being the MVP. Cutch is just one year removed from being a top five MVP four years in a row. Stanton …
Updated Dodger Prospect Rankings
Baseball Prospectus chimed into today with their top ten Dodger prospect list. A few days ago I put out the lists by MLB, FanGraphs, Rotowire, and Baseball America. Today I’ll update that list with Baseball Prospectus and remove Rotowire for the time being. Yadier Alvarez gets the BP top ranking, giving Alvarez two number one …
Adrian Gonzalez and age 35 seasons
Eric Stephen did an excellent review of what Adrian Gonzalez did in 2016, but I’m curious about what to expect from him in 2017. As Eric noted Adrian had a slow start but turned things around to end up with a somewhat productive season even though it was his least productive season of his career. …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 