Tag Archives: Paul DeJong
Corey Seager isn’t the shiny new SS anymore
Hard to believe but Corey Seager is already twenty-five years old and while Dodger fans wait for the 22/23 Seager to show up, the team down south in San Diego has the shiny new shortstop who has already been ordained the best young Shortstop in California. We won’t get to see Fernando Tatis Jr. this …
Only Bellinger and Kershaw crack top MLB award player finalists
Cody Bellinger is a shoe-in for the 2017 NL ROY but that will probably be the only hardware the team with the best record in baseball will acquire. Clayton Kershaw is in the finals with Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg for the NL CYA. At one time this summer it seemed as if the Dodgers …
Sophomore slamming
The two best players on the Los Angeles Dodgers are a 21-year-old 1st baseman and a 23-year-old shortstop. They will both be ROY winners, and they both will be leaned on very heavily to help the Dodgers move through October. It seemed that Corey Seager had a very quiet sophomore season, but once the 162 …
Rookie mashers
I should probably wait until the end of the year but I’m just blown away by the number of magnificent rookie home run hitters this year. It looked for a while that Aaron Judge had no chance to catch Mark McGwire’s historic rookie record of 49 home runs but Judge has gone crazy and blew by …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 