Tag Archives: Wilmer Font
Alex Verdugo is on his way
Alex Verdugo will be joining the team this Friday Alex Verdugo will join #Dodgers in SD when rosters expand. Joc Pederson will not. Likely later when AAA season ends — Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) August 31, 2017 , and if Corey Seager still has problems with the elbow I could see him getting some playing time. …
Fontastic
Wilmer Font completed his amazing regular season in AAA with a flourish, pitching six shutout innings. Font finished the game with six innings, three hits, zero runs, one walk, and eight strikeouts. Font will surely be the Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Year finishing the year 2nd in ERA with those above 100 innings …
The six man rotational disabled list
Jon Weisman tweeted yesterday that the Dodgers have a full rotation on the disabled list. The Los Angeles Disabled Listers look like they’re headed for a six-man rotation: Kershaw, Darvish, Wood, Urias, McCarthy, Kazmir — Jon Weisman (@jonweisman) August 22, 2017 Not just five starters but six Not just any starters either: A 3 time …
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 …
AAA – Oklahoma Dodgers – July Snapshot
The hitters: Again I ask, why is Ike Davis in our system? Some amazing plate discipline by both Verdugo and Willie Calhoun. Hope Willie puts it to good use for the Rangers. He’s a hitter. Verdugo has a pretty poor ISO. Even more so when you realize he is in the PCL. Name Age PA …
Katoh from Fangraphs kicks things up
Chris Mitchell over at Fangraphs has an experimental tool called Katoh that it he uses to do prospect rankings based on how much fWAR they would expect to generate over the next six years. I would really recommend reading the link above before checking out the list so you get a good idea of what …
Fantastic Font
Wilmer Font has done everything you could ask in 2017 to get a shot at some kind of major league role. In most organizations, he would have gotten a few starts by now but in the deep Dodger organization, he bides his time behind a deep major league rotation. With the injuries to Kershaw and …
FFA Winner for Week of July 17th – July 23rd
The contenders are…… Wilmer Font – OKC – The starting pitcher in the PCL All-Star game twirled a gem last week going seven innings, giving up seven hits, two earned runs, one walk, and eleven strikeouts. In his last ten starts Font has only walked more than two hitters once as he has displayed an …
Re-visiting the Rotational guesses
On Feb 17th we made our first guesses on how the rotational starts might be distributed in 2017. When spring training ended we did it again since the information had changed. How did we do? Kershaw has been the rock we expected, never missing a start. Urias ended up being the only casualty in the …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 