Tag Archives: Justin Turner
MLB Network Top 100 show
You can make light of how MLB Network comes up with their top 100, but it is still a fun show to watch. With the Red/Angel game blacked out for us in Los Angeles they showed the 2017 Top 100 countdown. Kershaw came in 2nd, and Mike Trout won for the fourth year in a …
Fangraphs Hitter Contact Series – LAD Infield
Tony Biengino of Fangraphs is doing a fascinating series looking at hitter contact quality, utilizing exit speed, and launch angle data. We will start by going around the infield horn. Better have Bellinger ready Adrian Gonzalez is another of those lucky ones who can roll out of bed and hit liners, year after year. That …
Narrative busting day
With Kenley Jansen re-signing with the Dodgers for 5/80 today, two different narratives were busted. First Narrative – MLB players always sign for the most money. I had laid out reasons why it would be a bad idea for Kenley Jansen to sign with the Marlins even if the Marlins made the best offer. I …
Dozier and Dodger infield dingers
If the Dodgers do trade for Dozier, and re-sign Justin Turner they will have a good shot at hitting 100 home runs as an infield. The last Dodger infield to hit 100 home runs was in 2004. That was mostly due to Adrian Beltre who belted 48 home runs. Shawn Green hit 22 home runs …
Allen Craig / Justin Turner – My oh My
I always wondered what kind of contract Allen Craig would have gotten had he hit free agency after his three-year run from 2011 – 2013 as Justin Turner has done instead of signing that 5/31 deal in the spring of 2013. 5/80 maybe? I remembered Craig having a nice run for the Cardinals after coming …
Hill/Turner/Jansen – what a bizzare trio
The LAD have three big free agents this season and all three of them are as unlikely as they come. At some point, all three of them had to think their major league careers were either over, never going to happen, or be satisfied with making a team every spring. By the end of this …
Yazmani Grandal gets an MVP vote
Multiple Dodgers got MVP votes with Daniel Murphy barely nudging out Corey Seager for 2nd place. Seager got 3rd place because Murphy got six 4th place votes, while Seager got seven. They tied with 11 2nd place votes, and ten 3rd place votes. Justin Turner got some recognition for his outstanding season by getting at …
Justin Turner leaves an amazing legacy
With the season now over and possibly his Dodger career let’s take a look at the amazing accomplishments of Justin Red Dream Turner. At 28 years old Turner was a career utility player who was inexplicably released by the Mets in the winter of 2014. Ned Colletti jumped on the chance to get the valuable …
As postseason games go, this game had soul
I’ve been reviewing postseason box scores looking for historical games to write about, and I’ll have to admit if I saw this box score twenty years from now, it would not strike me as a particularly interesting game. That is the problem with box scores of games you never saw, they don’t really tell the …
Yazmani Grandal and the big RBI game
Since Yazmani Grandal joined the team in 2015, he has had some big games, so how does his big games compare against his Dodger peers over the same time span? Pretty damn good. If we look at LAD since 2015 to have driven in at least five runs: Eleven times in that period a LAD …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 