Tag Archives: Josh Sborz

Rookie magic takes over Chavez Ravine

♦ June 24, 2019 ♦ 2 Comments

The well-known screenwriter texted his agent and said he’d just written a script from a dream he’d had. In the script, the home town baseball team (let’s call them the Dodgers) was playing the team in 2nd place trying to catch them. The agent asked for the highlights and the screenwriter provided the bullet points. …

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Dodger Minor League Update – 04/08/19

♦ April 8, 2019 ♦ Leave a comment

AAA – OKC Josh Sborz is thriving in a bullpen role for AAA, as he has struck out nine of the twelve hitters he’s faced so far with only one hit and one walk. The Dodgers made no noise when they signed veteran major league pitcher Zach McAllister to a minor league contract but he …

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Every player is replaceable

♦ November 8, 2018 ♦ Leave a comment

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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FFA Week of July 9th – July 16th

♦ July 17, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

The contenders: Wilmer Font – started in the PCL AAA All-Star game on Wednesday and threw one scoreless inning. Followed that up with six innings, three hits, one earned run, zero walks, and eight strikeouts on Sunday.  Font continues to excel at AAA as he waits to see if his production will turn into a …

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Extended spring training is loaded

♦ April 11, 2017 ♦ 2 Comments

William Boor of MLB.com puts out the whereabouts of the LAD Top 30 prospects. That extended spring training team is loaded 2. Yadier Alvarez — Extended spring training 7. Gavin Lux — Extended spring training 13. Starling Heredia — Extended spring training 16. Imani Abdullah — Extended spring training 17. Josh Sborz — Extended spring …

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Updated LAD Prospect Ranking

♦ February 26, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

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

♦ January 13, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

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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Josh Sborz, Andrew Sopko, and Kyle Garlick will represent Rancho Cucamonga in the Single-A California/Carolina League All-Star Game tonight

♦ June 21, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

The LAD High A California League All-Star game is tonight.  The game features the all-stars of the California league versus the all-stars of the Carolina league. The LAD have three players representing them tonight. Josh Sborz who was just named Single-A California League Pitcher of the Week for his work last week.  Sborz was the 74th overall …

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