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Ross, Walker, Kenta, and KJ lift the heavy load in May
The Dodgers were one game into May when they lost Clayton Kershaw for the whole month except for one start on May 31st. They lost Ryu two games into May. Later they lost Rich Hill. Kenley Jansen came into May staggering but left swaggering. With 3/5 of the starting rotation on the disabled list for …
Dodger offense in May provided by two unlikely sources and one that Dave Roberts seems oblivous too
The Dodgers didn’t have a great offensive month in May as they were ranked 11th in wRC+ at 90 but they did have some solid performances, with most of the production coming from their 1st baseman but not the one you would have expected. I sort this by plate appearances because I think it gives …
May starts and ends the same way
The Dodgers recovered some of their moxie in May with a boatload of surprise performances but in a month of bad news, they finished the month with even more. On May 1st Clayton Kershaw pitched six innings and left the game with bicep tenderness and would miss the rest of the month until he made …
Let’s talk about Caleb Ferguson
Last week Caleb Ferguson was promoted to AAA to pitch for the Oklahoma Dodgers at the age of twenty-one. Caleb earned this promotion by being the best pitcher stat-wise for the Dodger AA affiliate Tulsa team. You could argue he was the best pitcher in the Texas League and I would not disagree if we …
Dodger Draft fun, 2013 version
The 2018 major league draft is just a few days away and everywhere you look you can see a draft story so instead of swimming against the tide, we will just flow with it. CBS Sports did a breakdown of the 2013 major league draft in which both 2017 Rookies of the Year came from. …
Ex-Dodgers flourish for Tampa for one night
Three ex-Dodgers who now all pitch for Tampa and had seen nothing but tough times put all that behind them for one night as the three combined to pitch a one-hit shutout over the Oakland Athletics. First up was Nathan Eovaldi the fireballing right-hander who was traded by the Dodgers to the Marlins almost exactly …
Kenta Maeda has the best two game stretch in his three year career
Fresh off of his best game ever in the major leagues, Kenta followed it up with another gem giving him a two-game, game score total of 164, by far his best two games back to back. Kenta has had only five games out of sixty-six starts with a game score >= 75 and two of …
Puig and Kemp dominate Fangraphs May wRC+ leaderboard for NL outfielders
Given the Dodgers struggles to win in May it is a big surprise that the Dodgers have three players in the top ten of wRC+ for National League outfielders in the month of May. It is no surprise the Yasiel Puig is number one on the leaderboard with his 214 wRC+ as he is as …
Max Muncy doesn’t take Buehlers day off
but the rest of the Dodger offense did. Once again Max Muncy led the Dodger offense just as he has done most of May. Before Justin Turner returned last week and Puig got hot most of the May damage had come from the unlikely source of Max Muncy. It isn’t just an illusion as you …
My first Brother in Arms game
Reading Jon Weisman’s Brother in Arms was like reading my own history with the Dodgers. It took a few chapters to get there but once Jon reached Don Sutton I was with the man who started my Dodger chapter at Dodger Stadium. When I came to Los Angeles in the spring of 1970, Don Sutton …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 