Tag Archives: Scott Van Slyke
Ruf be gone
That sigh you heard might have been Scott Van Slyke who just saw his biggest competition for backup 1st baseman leave the Dodgers to sign a deal in Korea. Darin Ruf can earn twice as much in Korea and doesn’t have to worry about playing AAA instead of Los Angeles. SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) — South …
Jim Bowden goes bold
In a recent ESPN insider column, Jim Bowden predicted that Cody Bellinger would be the Dodgers starting left fielder. This led to some twitter ridicule but to be fair the headline for the column is “Bold Spring Training Predictions” so the predictions are supposed to be outside the lines. If your bold predictions don’t get …
He pitched his guts out!
I’m stealing this line from my friend Gary regarding Frias and his long-running oblique injury in 2016 which eventually sealed the deal for his DFA this past week to make room for our new minor league right-hand hitting outfielder Brent Eibner Frias was once mentioned in a fangraphs article by Carson Cistulli which felt he could …
Pondering left field
2017 LF is going to be interesting. From the Left Side: Toles – keeps showing skills, looks like he could be a promising leadoff hitter. Has the speed, showed good OBP skills, had some pop. His arm plays well in LF. I’d think he’d rank very high defensively over a full season in LF. We …
Howie Kendrick, clean up hitter
Lineup construction may only exist to amuse us, and if so, Dave Roberts is proving to be very amusing. Roberts sat Adrian Gonzalez yesterday, and instead of doing what he normally does, which is put Adrian’s replacement as the clean-up hitter, he put Scott Van Slyke eighth in the order. The amusing part was Dave using …
Can anyone play LF against RHP?
The Dodgers have turned their season around with six straight wins, eight out of nine, and homered in thirteen straight games, but they still have a few issues that need to be addressed. They need to rectify that .500 road record Having to use a Nick Tepesch doesn’t signal that the starting pitching depth has …
Dave Doc Roberts brings the Duck out of retirement
I really thought the Duck was going to stay retired, after all hardly anything has happened in the last three years that got his wings in a flutter. Yet, here I find myself writing a Duck Talk article because Dave Doc Roberts needs to answer some questions. For those unfamiliar with the Duck, you can …
Scott Van Slyke finally contributes to the 2016 Dodgers
SVS has had a rough start to the 2016 season. When Andre Ethier went down it was expected that SVS would take up the slack and possibly get full-time at bats but after just a few appearances, a back injury would sideline Scott until June. Once activated in June, Scott sat on the bench and …
SVS watches the Dodger offense do nothing
A rookie manager not only has to learn about his team and their strengths, the fans of the team get to learn the same about the rookie manager. The one thing I’ve learned so far this year, is that David Roberts has a strange affinity for Howie Kendrick in LF. With Carl Crawford finally being …
Dodger outfield is as hot as the San Fernando Valley in Sept
All the Dodgers starting team, and key bench players are on fire, but leading the charge has been the starting outfield. All stats are courtesy of Fangraphs.com. Notice that three of them have a plus .600 slug %. Strangely enough, it is Carl Crawford with the highest Slug%. SVS has the strange stat of a …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 