Tag Archives: Jeren Kendall
Cool prospect links and notes
DJ Peters on being the home town kid. Alex Verdugo and his parents. “He would be so mad if he knew I told you this, but every night in the month when he shuts down right after the season, all I see in his bed are Reese’s peanut butter cups and hot Cheetos. I mean, …
Dodgers place 6 in revised MLB Prospect top 100
MLB finally released their midseason top 100 prospect list and six Dodgers made the top 100 list. Walker Buehler at 13 – preseason rank was 93 – big jump Alex Verdugo at 28 – preseason rank was 61 – big jump Yadier Alvarez at 51 – preseason rank was 49 – not much movement Willie …
FFA Winner for Week of July 17th – July 23rd
The contenders are…… Wilmer Font – OKC – The starting pitcher in the PCL All-Star game twirled a gem last week going seven innings, giving up seven hits, two earned runs, one walk, and eleven strikeouts. In his last ten starts Font has only walked more than two hitters once as he has displayed an …
Minor League Notes 07/21/17
A lot of activity at the minor league level for the Dodgers with some ramifications. Walker Buhler was promoted to AAA and made his first start last night. The number one pitching prospect for the Dodgers did not get out of the first inning, Walker faced five batters, giving up three walks and two hits …
Midseason Prospect Rankings coming in
David Hood was the first with an update prospect list, and he published it this morning. MLB did their update last year around July 20th and that is when we will be looking for it this year. I was pleased to see that David was aggressive on Keibert Ruiz and Dennis Santana the two prospects …
Dodgers draft a Panda
Baseball America with a great review of Jeren Kendall. This kid sounds like a lot of fun. That’s one quirk. Here’s another: Much like the late artist Prince, Kendall has become synonymous with a symbol. A Panda emoji. He’s used it in all of his Instagram captions for a year now. His intrasquad team in …
Did the Dodgers just draft Jonathan Villar or Carl Crawford?
Based on the pre-draft rankings the Dodgers just stole their number one pick Jeren Kendall with the 23rd pick. I’ll be misspelling Jeren for a while unless I get to write it often. MLB had him as their 6th top prospect. Baseball America had him at 18. John Sickels felt he was a top ten …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 