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Cody Bellinger puts his skills on display
With Adrian Gonzalez ailing, and headed out to represent Mexico in the WBC, Dodger fans are going to get to see a lot of number one prospect Cody Bellinger. I suspect they will like what they see. Today, Cody put some of his skills on display. In his first at-bat, he struck out on a …
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 …
Baseball America Dodger Prospect Centric chat
Baseball America did a top 100 prospect chat several days ago. Since the Dodgers have numerous prospects in the top 100 let’s see what they had to say specifically about the Dodger prospects. Could they be any more giddy about Bellinger? Tony (Lakeland, FL): Who is the most likely of the top 100 to hit …
Jim Bowden goes bold
In a recent ESPN insider column, Jim Bowden predicted that Cody Bellinger would be the Dodgers starting left fielder. This led to some twitter ridicule but to be fair the headline for the column is “Bold Spring Training Predictions” so the predictions are supposed to be outside the lines. If your bold predictions don’t get …
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 …
Updated Dodger Prospect Rankings
Baseball Prospectus chimed into today with their top ten Dodger prospect list. A few days ago I put out the lists by MLB, FanGraphs, Rotowire, and Baseball America. Today I’ll update that list with Baseball Prospectus and remove Rotowire for the time being. Yadier Alvarez gets the BP top ranking, giving Alvarez two number one …
Adrian Gonzalez and age 35 seasons
Eric Stephen did an excellent review of what Adrian Gonzalez did in 2016, but I’m curious about what to expect from him in 2017. As Eric noted Adrian had a slow start but turned things around to end up with a somewhat productive season even though it was his least productive season of his career. …
Pondering left field
2017 LF is going to be interesting. From the Left Side: Toles – keeps showing skills, looks like he could be a promising leadoff hitter. Has the speed, showed good OBP skills, had some pop. His arm plays well in LF. I’d think he’d rank very high defensively over a full season in LF. We …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 