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Dodgers 2018 July Pitching Breakdown
July is in the books and a familiar face led the Dodgers staff in fWAR for the first time this year. In a normal Dodger year, Clayton Kershaw would lead the Dodgers in fWAR about five out of six months but it took until July for Clayton to take his accustomed spot at the top of …
Omar Estevez getting it together
20-year old infielder Omar Estevez is playing his second season for Rancho in Class A+ ball after having an underwhelming season in 2017. Given his age, I was surprised that he dropped so far in the prospect ranking this spring as he was much younger than the age group for his level. He’s still young …
Trammel, Vlady, and Thome highlight my HOF Sunday
Three of my favorite players were enshrined yesterday into Baseball’s HOF and I couldn’t have been happier. I’m not sure why I was a Tiger fan in 1984, but I suspect it had to do with Kirk Gibson, Alan Trammel, and Sweet Lou Whitaker. I watched Alan Trammel and Sweet Lou combine for the best …
Breaking down Dodger centric MLB Pipeline Mid-Season top 100
The Dodgers posted four players in the revised MLB Pipeline top 100 that came out this week. Alex Verdugo was 29, Keibert Ruiz was 38, Will Smith was 74, and Dustin May clocked in at 83. The Dodgers lost Walker Buehler who no longer qualifies as a prospect and no one else graduated into the …
Caleb Ferguson is pitching like 2016 Andrew Miller
A bullpen ebbs and flows all season, one moment a Daniel Hudson is handling the class five rapids with aplomb, the next moment he can’t even navigate a simple class one. When one stumbles another takes his place so it is rare that a bullpen has everyone firing on all cylinders and the Dodgers are …
MLB Pipeline has Dodger prospects on the move up and down, and even out.
The mid-season MLB Pipeline top 30 prospect list came out today and as was expected, several notable prospects were on the move up, while others were on the move down. The February edition of the MLB Dodger top 30 pipeline looked like this. Many prospects from the Pipeline Pre-2018 are gone from the list for …
Phillies have their own Ross Stripling
Zach Eflin is probably unknown to most Dodger fans but for the Phillies, he’s been as much a reason for the Phillies being in 1st place as Ross Stripling is for the Dodgers. Zach was actually a Dodger for about one day. The Dodgers acquired him on Dec 18th, 2014 in the Matt Kemp / …
Machado deal is 3rd big summer deal in a row
For a team that gets criticized for not trading prospects, the Dodgers sure trade a lot of prospects. In the summer of 2016, they traded three of their top pitching prospects Jharel Cotton, Frankie Montas, and 2014 first round pick Grant Holmes for Rich Hill and Josh Reddick. Rich Hill at the time was one …
Machado coming but who is going?
This deal could be announced any second but until it does speculation is running rampant on who is headed to the Orioles. Based on the reporting we have read we know two things: Five prospects of which none are on the current major league roster Yusniel Diaz is the headliner There have been reports that …
Oh my goodness, Miguel Vargas
I tend to ignore what happens in the short season rookie leagues because I’ve been burned way too many times getting excited about what happens in Odgen but I can’t take my eyes away from what 18-year-old Miguel Vargas is doing this summer for the Raptors. Miguel Vargas is from Cuba and got to the …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 