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Every player is replaceable

Why is that a controversial comment? Bill James said out loud what every GM has ever thought for the history of baseball. Or maybe not everyone, but certainly quite a few. Players come, players go, the constant is the game, not the players. Agents don’t want to hear this, fans don’t want to hear this, …

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MLB Pipeline has Dodger prospects on the move up and down, and even out.

The mid-season MLB Pipeline top 30 prospect list came out today and as was expected, several notable prospects were on the move up, while others were on the move down. The February edition of the MLB Dodger top 30 pipeline looked like this. Many prospects from the Pipeline Pre-2018 are gone from the list for …

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Cody Thomas and Carlos Rincon make history

I don’t normally do individual minor league games unless they warrant special attention but the Loons had a quite a historical game last night. The Loons hit seven home runs last night but the more interesting part was that it was done by only three hitters.  Yeah, that is kind of cool but not as …

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Great Lake Loons July Stats Snapshot & Overview

Hitters: Top prospects coming and going. Keibert Ruiz is now in Rancho but Jeren Kendall the 2017 number one pick is playing for the Loons Keibert Ruiz and Cristian Santana would appear to be the only two hitters who have overcome the pitching league and park.  I feel what Ruiz did at this level is much more …

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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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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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