Tag Archives: Walker Buehler

Dodgers have 4 in BA top 100 + 2

Even with the promotions over the last three years of Cody Bellinger, Corey Seager, Joc Pederson, Andrew Toles, Julio Urias, Brock Stewart, and Austin Barnes the Dodgers still have some top talent in their farm system. Baseball America gave the Dodgers four prospects in their annual January top 100 list. The Dodgers also had four in …

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Pitching roster for NLDS

With the positional players done, let’s move on to what will be more important. Who will make up the pitching portion of the NLDS? Below are the splits for the pitching in Sept. This is more to get an idea of who is being used the most from the bullpen and how effective they have …

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Font, Rios, Peters, and Ferguson make Baseball America Prospect All-Star teams

Wilmer Font made the AAA All-Star team Edwin Rios made the AA All-Star team as the DH DJ Peters made the A+ All-Star team as an outfielder and Caleb Ferguson made it as a starting pitcher Notable exceptions were Alex Verdugo and Walker Buehler. Walker had a tough task because he split time between AA …

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FFA August 28th – Sept 4th

The minor league regular season ended last night so I thought I’d wait a day and get a final Farm Factory Award in with eight days instead of seven.  The final eight days had quite a few notable performers so without further ado The Contenders: Yusniel Diaz – AA/Tulsa – Diaz had four multi-hit games, …

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Dodger Minor League Awards

Many of the full league schedules will have their last regular season games played this Labor Day.  so I thought it might be a good time to look at the numerous individual minor league awards for players in the Dodger system. So far they look like this: Top pitching prospect Walker Buehler won the Branch …

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FFA Week of August 21st – 27th

Farm Factory Award for the week of August 21st – August 27th had plenty of competition running the gamut from an 18-year-old up and coming prospect to a 28-year-old journeyman minor leaguer who is having the hottest stretch of his minor league career. The Contenders; Scott Barlow – AA/Tulsa – Barlow pitched a brilliant game …

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October bullpen countdown

The Dodgers have two big decisions to make come October. Who will start game three and game four, and who will make up the October bullpen. The bullpen is so crowded that when I did my breakdown of the Walker Buehler chances I forgot to mention Josh Fields who reminded me tonight how foolish that …

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Walker Buehler relief experiment

Watching Pedro Baez struggle last night, I was left wondering how the Walker Buehler experiment is doing. Walker Buehler is currently the Dodgers top pitching prospect and after a disastrous first start in AAA he settled down and looked more like the Dodgers top pitching prospect. A few weeks ago the Dodger front office moved …

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FFA for Week August 7th – August 13th

Contenders: Wilmer Font – SP – AAA/OKC – Font started two games last week, went twelve innings, gave up nine hits, two earned runs, walked two, and struck out fourteen. Over his last seven starts, he has pitched 41 innings, giving up just six earned runs, twenty-eight hits, walked eight and struck out fifty-four. Tim …

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A+ – Rancho July Stat Snapshot & Review

Hitters: Top ten prospect Yusniel Diaz was just promoted to AA Tulsa. At 20 Diaz is having a solid season but nothing stands out. He is more about the scouting tools than actual production but we do have to remember he’s 20, even though he repeated the league. 2016 first round pick Will Smith was …

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