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Updated LAD NLDS Home Run list
With Cody Bellinger and Austin Barnes going deep last night and the NLDS over, today is as good as any to update the NLDS home run list. The TBS announcers last night kept calling Austin Barnes and Chris Taylor rookies even though I should have known better and for a minute I thought that Bellinger …
Puig and Mondesi, side by side
With Yasiel Puig fulfilling the destiny of his twenty-six-year-old season he now ranks side by side with Raul Mondesi in OPS+. Back in 2013 when Puig was going to start the year in AAA, I projected that he would come up and have a Raul Mondesi type of impact. He did, and now that he …
Redemption day for Greinke
Even though Zack Greinke doesn’t think he has to be redeemed today, Arizona fans might feel differently. It was, after all, the poor start by the $34,000,000 dollar pitcher that put the team in such a bind because they had to use Robbie Ray in the play-in game instead of having him ready to face the …
How unique is Justin Turner?
Much has been made about Justin Turner having double-digit home run power while walking more than striking out. Listening to Vin Scully for 50 years you heard Vinny marvel all the time about the power that Joe Dimaggio had while still maintaining minuscule strikeout totals. I decided to see just how unique this skill set was, …
Can Robbie Ray stop the carnage?
It has been a bad run for young pitchers making their first postseason start so far in 2017. Not just hit around a little, crushed. When Taijuan Walker gave up four runs last night before recording an out, he was just following the same path of his fellow first time pitchers. He wasn’t even the …
Baez in, Joc out
The Dodgers finalized their NLDS roster by adding embattled relief pitcher Pedro Baez to the roster thus going with twelve pitchers and thirteen hitters. I had surmised that Farmer would make the team, and felt that Joc would be the last man standing with eleven pitchers and fourteen hitters but the Dodgers decided they needed …
All eyes on Kershaw & Morrow
Clayton Kershaw has started four straight game one NLDS, and while this will be the first time he will start against a division rival in the NLDS everything else should seem familiar. In those previous four starts, the Dodgers have won two games and lost two games. When they have won game one, they have advanced …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 