Tag Archives: Willie Calhoun

Subtle changes at AAA

♦ June 27, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

One box score on June 26th, 2017 might not mean much or it might portend for a different future for a key Dodger prospect. Jose Miguel Fernandez was promoted to AAA and played his first game last night. This is significant because Willie Calhoun was the AAA 2nd baseman and the Dodgers were trying to …

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Clobbering Calhoun wins FFA for week ending 6/11/17

♦ June 12, 2017 ♦ 10 Comments

Willie Calhoun needs to hit since that is his only tool and the hit tool was carving up the PCL last week. Calhoun went 11 for 34 with eleven RBI and three home runs to win the weekly Farm Factory Award for June 11th. The three home runs came in back to back to back …

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Dodger Farm System Positional update June 2nd, 2017

♦ June 2, 2017 ♦ 5 Comments

With two months in the books, how has the farm system been doing? My quick top ten: Keibert Ruiz – I might be crazy, but he’s my favorite positional prospect Alex Verdugo – possible trade bait Willie Calhoun – trade bait Brendon Davis Gavin Lux Edwin Rios – trade bait Will Smith Oneil Cruz Carlos Rincon …

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May 22nd – Font Farm Factory Award winner

♦ May 21, 2017 ♦ 2 Comments

There were a lot of great performances by LAD prospects in the past week but the award has to belong to Wilmer Font. He’s not even really a prospect but when you put up a game like he put up on Monday he has to be on someone’s radar. I don’t care what kind of …

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Dodgers send down five

♦ March 22, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

Dodgers sent two of their top prospects along with three other players from major league camp to minor league camp and each of them could be back at some point. Alex Verdugo –  Verdugo played for Mexico in the WBC and while playing RF could have made the catch that kept Mexico in the tournament …

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Ryu puts one foot forward

♦ March 11, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

as he attempts to navigate the long path back to productive major league pitcher.  Ryu pitched for the first time this spring in a real game and was able to complete two solid innings of work. His velocity has moved back to the 88 – 91 level from the 86-88 he was throwing in his …

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Rich Hill reminds everyone he sucks in March

♦ March 8, 2017 ♦ 2 Comments

Rich Hill had his second lousy start this spring but compared to a game he pitched last March for the Oakland A’s he doing just fine. In that game,  he walked the bases loaded and didn’t even get three outs. I was curious so I looked up a few things. As great as Hill was …

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MLB Dodger Prospect Update

♦ March 3, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

MLB updated their prospect lists this week which gives us a chance to see the progression from 2016 Preseason to 2016MidSeason(after draft) to 2016 PostSeason to 2017 Preseason. We can identify those who graduate, and those who moved up and dropped down. Dropping off the list because they exhausted their rookie status were Julio Urias …

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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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Baseball America Dodger Prospect Centric chat

♦ February 15, 2017 ♦ 2 Comments

Baseball America did a top 100 prospect chat several days ago. Since the Dodgers have numerous prospects in the top 100 let’s see what they had to say specifically about the Dodger prospects. Could they be any more giddy about Bellinger? Tony (Lakeland, FL): Who is the most likely of the top 100 to hit …

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