Tag Archives: Alex Verdugo

Trading value?

David Hood at TBLA put up a post ranking the Dodger rookies/prospects by trade value. His number one option to be traded was Alex Verdugo and he gave excellent reasons for ranking him as number one. 1. Alex Verdugo: Talented offensive player that might have more hype than ceiling, a year away from reaching the …

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MLB Dodger Prospect Update

MLB updated their prospect lists this week which gives us a chance to see the progression from 2016 Preseason to 2016MidSeason(after draft) to 2016 PostSeason to 2017 Preseason. We can identify those who graduate, and those who moved up and dropped down. Dropping off the list because they exhausted their rookie status were Julio Urias …

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WBC will give some players a chance to shine this spring

Players are getting ready to depart to their respective teams for the World Baseball Championship. Dodgers headed out will be: Ike Davis playing for Isreal – an interesting decision by Ike. With Adrian headed to Mexico he might have gotten some extended time in games in front of the coaches but instead, he will play …

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Updated LAD Prospect Ranking

David Hood of TBLA finally completed his ranking of the top 60 LAD prospects. He didn’t actually finish but with Cody Bellinger the only player left he hasn’t written about we can figure it out. Legend: MLB = Major League Baseball Ranking BA = Baseball America FG = Fangraphs BP = Baseball Prospectus TBLA = …

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MLB Top 100 Prospects – Five Dodgers crack the list

The top 100 MLB prospect list The Dodgers: 13  – Cody Bellinger 49 – Yadier Alvarez 61 – Alex Verdugo 82 – Willie Calhoun 93 – Walker Buehler Dodger Prospects traded in the past year: 33  – Jose De Leon – Tampa Bay via Logan Forsythe trade 85 – Grant Holmes – Oakland via Rich …

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Dodger Prospect Rankings

With Baseball America putting out their top ten Dodger prospect list for 2017 we now have enough lists to put out a prospect table. I would have liked to include TrueBlueLA prospect writer David Hood but he is spreading his list out and is only down to 13. I’ll add his ranking when he’s finished. …

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Willie Smalls goes yard, Tulsa Trio start raking again

Willie Calhoun slugged his 26th home run for the Drillers, Alex Verdugo collected three hits, and Cody Bellinger just hung out. Let’s check in on how the Tulsa Trio have done since the trading deadline left them in the Dodger organization. I’m going to add in Edwin Rios and Johan Mieses because it will be …

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Prospect player of the day Cody Bellinger fills out the box score.

Bellinger had the big offensive day yesterday , home run, single, two walks, and two stolen bases. Cody filled out the box score yesterday. On Saturday Verdugo slugged two home runs to pass Bellinger, but it only lasted one day, as Bellinger roared back Sunday to tie Verdugo by slugging his 11th home run. The …

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Dodger AA Tulsa Drillers, drilling home runs, Verdugo and Calhoun lead their respective age group

Alex Verdugo slugged two home runs yesterday giving him eleven home runs and the league lead in home runs for a 20 year old. He passed teammate 20-year-old Cody Bellinger who has ten. Unless they get promoted or traded to a new organization this should be an interesting race between the two top LAD positional …

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Dodgers have nine prospects on Rotowire updated top 200

Rotowire is a baseball fantasy site, so these ranking do not reflect their possible future major league production,  but it does give an idea of how well stocked the Dodgers are in the farm system. This particular top 200 was recently updated to reflect the influx of the 2016 draft class, which added twenty-six draftees’ …

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