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LAD first half leaderboards – Batting Average
With so many Dodgers having amazing first halves, we will be displaying the historical significance of those performances. Justin Turner and Cody Bellinger will populate these boards, but will anyone else show up? Justin fell from .380 but not only walks away with the best first half batting average, good bet he will be on top …
LAD 1st half leaderboard – Wins
The 2017 LAD have their 3rd best win total at the all-star break. I was surprised to find out that 61 wins only gets you the 3rd spot as this has seemed to be the hottest 1st half team I could remember. I guess we have to remember that they were 10 – 12 at …
Dodgers ho hum their way to another sweep
With another Dodger victory, this is getting ridiculous 61 wins at the all-star break 10 series sweeps 18 of last 19 at home Three hot teams have come to Dodger Stadium and three teams have left with their confidence shaken. Rockies/Diamondbacks/Royals are 0 – 9 against the best team in baseball. I guess the Dodgers …
LAD FFA July 3rd – July 9th
Some noteworthy contenders by two real prospects, by a pitcher who I don’t have a read on, and a minor league free agent who got some burn in major league camp this past spring. DJ Peters has been hot for a while and he kept it going last week picking up ten more hits, including three more …
A season of WTF
Besides the Dodgers doing their best imitation of the 1927 Yankees this year has been full of bizarre offensive seasons from players either long given up or simply far exceeding expectations from what had been their previous norms. This is like the 2004 Beltre season but from a baker’s dozen. It won’t include players like Aaron …
Future’s game Dodger style
Two twenty-one-year-old prospects will be headed to the 2017 Future’s game to represent the Dodgers in Miami. They are both going to be playing for the World team. The game will be played on Sunday, July 9th in Miami. If you want to know who the best prospects in the game are, this is the game …
Hill/Wood/Kershaw have three things in common
Two are obvious. They are all left handed. They are all Dodgers. But did you know that over the last fourteen days they are also the three best pitchers in the NL? Fangraphs tells us, this is so: (this snapshot only worked if viewed on July 7th, 2017) Before the snapshot changes, this is what …
Rich Hill puts another win on the Dodger wall
Rich Hill and Logan Forsythe were two of the last holdouts this year in the summer of the Blue, but both have joined the fray, and the team looks unstoppable. For the 3rd straight start, Rich Hill worked seven innings and now has twenty-seven strikeouts to only three walks over his last three starts. That …
Alex Wood makes it six all-stars
With the announcement that Alex Wood has been picked as a replacement all-star the Dodgers now have six 2017 All-stars. Even if the baseball All-Star game does not float your boat, as a Dodger fan you have to be excited to see this incredible team rewarded. They all deserved it, no gimmie’s here. 1st/LF – …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 