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PostPosted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 3:05 am    Post subject:

Man, how bad did this contract turn out?

5 yrs $80M

He gave us a great 1st yr, a shaky last yr, and a mediocre this yr

Plus 2 more yrs of garbage?

Man, looking back at that time, we had 2 major FAs, Justin Turner n Jansen.

Jansen was younger so he got the longer deal for more money. Turner got 4 for $60M.

So far Turner’s outperformed his contract. Jansen’s contract is horrible.
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LongBeachPoly wrote:
Man, how bad did this contract turn out?

5 yrs $80M

He gave us a great 1st yr, a shaky last yr, and a mediocre this yr

Plus 2 more yrs of garbage?

Man, looking back at that time, we had 2 major FAs, Justin Turner n Jansen.

Jansen was younger so he got the longer deal for more money. Turner got 4 for $60M.

So far Turner’s outperformed his contract. Jansen’s contract is horrible.


Jansen can actually opt out after this season! If the fans boo him enough, maybe they'll drive him away. Haha, nah, that won't be happening. He simply has too much money owed to him still, and the deal was backloaded. He's set to make $18MM next season and $20MM in '21. The only chance they have at saving some money would be if they found a taker in a trade and paid at least half of his remaining money owed. Basically, would a team give him 2 years and $19MM if he were a free agent? Not totally unreasonable to think that. Would the Dodgers be willing to just get $19MM off their books? Or $15MM? It would be an easy answer for me.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 5:31 pm    Post subject:

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LongBeachPoly wrote:
Man, how bad did this contract turn out?

5 yrs $80M

He gave us a great 1st yr, a shaky last yr, and a mediocre this yr

Plus 2 more yrs of garbage?

Man, looking back at that time, we had 2 major FAs, Justin Turner n Jansen.

Jansen was younger so he got the longer deal for more money. Turner got 4 for $60M.

So far Turner’s outperformed his contract. Jansen’s contract is horrible.


Jansen can actually opt out after this season! If the fans boo him enough, maybe they'll drive him away. Haha, nah, that won't be happening. He simply has too much money owed to him still, and the deal was backloaded. He's set to make $18MM next season and $20MM in '21. The only chance they have at saving some money would be if they found a taker in a trade and paid at least half of his remaining money owed. Basically, would a team give him 2 years and $19MM if he were a free agent? Not totally unreasonable to think that. Would the Dodgers be willing to just get $19MM off their books? Or $15MM? It would be an easy answer for me.


Good luck with that. They will likely need to throw in a prospect or two as well as eat a big chunk of that contract to move him.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:49 pm    Post subject:

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“It came to my attention that there was a little alteration to my delivery the last couple starts,” Ryu said through his interpreter, “so I just wanted to make some adjustments.”


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Roberts said of Ryu. “He and (pitching coach Rick Honeycutt) feel that they’ve cleaned something up in the delivery. I don’t think it’s fatigue.


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So that’s why they don’t think fatigue is an issue. I’m not able to see the game but he has given up 4 hits and 4 walks so far. Not encouraging unfortunately.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:59 pm    Post subject:

Ugh, Ryu couldn’t even make it thru the 5th inning. 4.1 innings, 6 hits, 4 walks, 5 k’s, 3 runs. Should have been an easy win with the run support he is getting in this game.

At least with him I think they can still fix whatever is wrong. I’m much more pessimistic about Jansen.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:41 am    Post subject:

LOS ANGELES -- Lingering back stiffness has forced the Dodgers to abort outfielder Alex Verdugo’s rehab assignment with Class A Ogden and send him back to their Camelback Ranch training complex in Arizona.

Verdugo played one rehab game as a designated hitter.

Max Muncy took ground balls on Wednesday and was in the batting cage to begin hitting soft-toss flips. Roberts said he hopes Muncy will be ready for game action next week after fracturing his right wrist.

Rich Hill will pitch two innings of a simulated game on Friday and could rejoin the Dodgers next week after more than two months on the sidelines with a strained flexor tendon.

Dustin May faced hitters on Wednesday in a simulated game for the first time since being drilled by a line drive to the head on Sunday. He showed no ill effects physically, but Roberts said the 21-year-old rookie’s command was lacking. May’s next action has yet to be determined.

• For the weekend series against the Giants, Clayton Kershaw will start for the Dodgers on Friday night, and Walker Buehler will start Sunday. Saturday’s starter is to be determined, with Ross Stripling and Tony Gonsolin the likely candidates, depending on bullpen usage Wednesday night.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 12:23 pm    Post subject:

Don't think it's been mentioned here - and I'm sure everyone already knows - but the Dodgers broke the NL home run record.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 2:11 pm    Post subject:

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Home runs surged 58% at Triple-A this season following the switch to major league baseballs.

According to the organization that governs the minors, 5,752 homers were hit in the International and Pacific Coast Leagues. That's up from 3,652 in 2018.

Rawlings provides baseballs for the majors and minors. The big league balls are manufactured in Costa Rica, the minor league balls in China.

Big league batters are on pace to break the season home run record next week with two-plus weeks remaining in the season.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:03 am    Post subject:

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The Dodgers’ 2016 draft class already looks like a big winner
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PUBLISHED: September 5, 2019 at 6:45 pm | UPDATED: September 5, 2019 at 6:46 pm
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Four members of the Dodgers’ 2016 draft class, (from left) pitcher Tony Gonsolin, infielder Gavin Lux, catcher Will Smith and pitcher Dustin May, are on the major-league roster right now and all of them are candidates to make the postseason roster of the National League’s best team.

LOS ANGELES — Dustin May had a laptop hooked up to his television at his family’s home in Justin, Texas. He watched the 2016 draft unfold from his couch along with his parents, his grandmother, a friend from high school, and his agent, Craig Rose.

Will Smith and his teammates at the University of Louisville were in the Cardinals’ clubhouse, along with their families, watching each name come off the draft board with nervous anticipation.

Gavin Lux was at his family’s home in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Dodgers were merely one of 30 possible employers before they chose Lux; he said it was his uncle, the former minor league baseball player Augie Schmidt, who told him that day: “man, you just hit the jackpot.”

Tony Gonsolin might have the funniest draft story of any player in the Dodgers’ superlative 2016 class. He and a friend were driving home from a workout in their hometown of Vacaville when his name appeared on his smartphone.

“I said, look, this is me! I just got drafted. That’s really cool,” Gonsolin recalled telling his friend. “We were driving and he was trying to give me a hug when we were driving. I was like: Stop that, let’s get back to your house first, it’s two minutes away, we’ll celebrate then.”

Three years and three months later, all four players have lockers in the Dodgers’ clubhouse. May, Smith, Lux and Gonsolin are all candidates to make the postseason roster of the National League’s best team. They have cemented the class as the Dodgers’ best draft of the decade – at least – in astonishingly short order.

Lux and Smith are among 10 first-round picks from the 2016 class who have reached the big leagues. May is one of nine third-rounders who have arrived, and Gonsolin is the lone ninth-rounder. Only 18 of the 935 players chosen after Gonsolin have already debuted.

Fifth-round pick Devin Smeltzer, whom the Dodgers traded to the Twins for Brian Dozier last year, made his debut in May. Others are on their way, either with the Dodgers or with another organization. The only question is how many more will arrive and when.

“I think there could be 11 or 12 big leaguers in the draft class,” draft director Billy Gasparino said.

The 2016 draft was Gasparino’s second with the Dodgers. He had just enjoyed a full offseason to assemble a full staff and hire new scouts. In hindsight, he said, that might have contributed to the group’s success in June. Unlike Lux, Gasparino did not immediately realize he had hit the jackpot. The feeling in the draft room afterward, he said, “was definitely on the high end of optimism.”

More than perfecting the process of scouting and drafting, Gasparino believes the Dodgers were simply able to choose the players they wanted before their rivals could take them off the board. Some years that happens. Other years, it doesn’t.

“If I had a secret recipe for what happened in ‘16 I would roll it out every year,” Gasparino said. “I’ve thought about it a lot. Felt a little better (after that draft) than most years, but to stamp this as special, is really hard to say.”

Lux attended his high school graduation the Friday before the draft began, then attended a pre-draft workout with the Chicago White Sox the following day. Gasparino believed another team, the Kansas City Royals, might have been considering Lux with their first pick too.

The White Sox held the 10th overall pick. The Royals weren’t picking until the second round, 67th overall. Lux was still on the board when the Dodgers’ number-20 pick came around.

“As the week unfolded, it grew and grew that we wanted him to be our guy,” Gasparino said. “There was a little discussion about college pitching versus Lux, but he had a really good talent package. … There was a little fist pump, ‘let’s do it,’ and quickly move.”

The Dodgers held the 32nd overall pick as compensation for losing Zack Greinke in free agency. They also held the 36th overall pick, which they ultimately used to select Vanderbilt pitcher Jordan Sheffield. The Cardinals were picking 33rd and 34th, the Reds 35th.

Gasparino was quick to credit Josh Byrnes, the Dodgers’ senior vice president of baseball operations, for encouraging the team to select Smith 32nd.

“There was a little moment of strategy play: could we wait on Smith? The industry consensus was a little lower on him,” Gasparino said. “We rolled with it and took the chance. That was a good group decision on that one.”

May was the second high school player the Dodgers chose, after Lux. Gasparino describes the third round as “a high-school overpay round,” a time for teams who feel confident in their draft-bonus pool to select a player who might command a signing bonus above their slot value. Usually, that means a high school player, rarely a college junior, and never a college senior.

In the draft room, Gasparino said the Dodgers were debating between selecting May and a high school position player.

“I think late that night, early that morning, we were trying to create a (financial) scenario to get Dustin,” Gasparino said. “I think we had a million-dollar bonus. We were hoping that would be enough to get Dustin.”

By the ninth round, the financial scenarios weren’t lining up for the Dodgers to make a splurge. (They eventually signed their first 11 draft picks.) Gonsolin was a college senior with plenty of upside but no clear position. During his final pre-draft workout, Gonsolin said he swung a bat and threw from flat ground, not knowing whether he would be selected as a pitcher or an outfielder.

West Coast scouting supervisor Paul Cogan and area scout Tom Kunis were sold on Gonsolin’s potential as a pitcher. It was Kunis who called Gonsolin personally to deliver the good news. Without the table-pounding recommendations from his scouts, Gasparino might have gone a different direction with the pick. That’s not unusual by the time the ninth round rolls around.

“These are the type of players who haven’t been heavily cross-checked in most cases,” Gasparino said. “They’re seniors. They’ve been overlooked at some point. It takes creativity and imagination: this guy’s a talent, a senior, we can save money, but if everything clicks to be a prospect – it takes a fine level of skill. In this case, the area scout and the supervisor both nailed it.”


A fuller appreciation for the Dodgers’ 2016 draft class is still to come. Infielder Zack McKinstry (33rd round) is Rule 5 eligible this winter after a strong showing at Triple-A. Outfielder D.J. Peters (fourth round) also excelled after a promotion to Oklahoma City. Pitcher Mitchell White (second round) has shown flashes of dominance between stints on the injured list; Gasparino believes the right-hander has a chance to reach the big leagues with the Dodgers in 2020.

Outfielder Luke Raley (seventh round) and pitcher Dean Kremer (14th round) have a strong chance to reach the majors with the Twins and Orioles, respectively. That’s 10 players from the 2016 class who have already reached the major leagues or the high minors in a three-year span.

“It feels quick now, but when you’re living through the ups and downs, it doesn’t feel quick,” Gasparino said. “You just see how much work needs to be done. That’s what makes it special. You realize how special it is when they make it.

“It turned into a magical draft on some levels. I don’t know if you can predict it, or expect it, but it’s pretty neat.”

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/09/05/the-dodgers-2016-draft-class-already-looks-like-a-big-winner/amp/
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 3:50 pm    Post subject:

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Rich Hill faced hitters today and felt good. The plan is for him to make four starts before the end of the season, beginning Thursday in Baltimore. He'll throw about 30 pitches and build from there. If he stays on track, he can open the postseason as the fourth starter.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:51 pm    Post subject:

Willie Calhoun is up with Rangers

18 hr in 64 games.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:51 pm    Post subject:

Kershaw only lasted 4ip tonight - 99 pitches in 4ip, wowo
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:04 pm    Post subject:

Why did we call up Dylan Floro again? And why are we using him?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:11 pm    Post subject:

LongBeachPoly wrote:
Kershaw only lasted 4ip tonight - 99 pitches in 4ip, wowo


It didn't work out, but I give Roberts credit for pulling the plug on him. Not his fault the bullpen sucks.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:07 pm    Post subject:

Another bad start by Ryu/Kershaw/Buehler. Weird. It used to be the other way; those guys used to normally pitch well.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:07 am    Post subject:

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Ryu will miss a scheduled start in Baltimore, and should get 9-10 days off in a row.

Ryu boasted a major-league leading ERA of 1.45 on Aug. 11. Since then, the 32-year-old left-hander has a 9.95 ERA.

He has given up five home runs in the four starts since Aug. 11. He had given up only 10 in 22 starts before then.

Fatigue might be a factor. Ryu has pitched 161⅔ innings this season, the most he has pitched since 2013. In the four seasons preceding this year, Ryu had pitched only 213⅔ innings combined.


DODGERS TO SKIP START FOR STRUGGLING RYU
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:15 pm    Post subject:

Not to overreact but we are in big doodoo.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:21 pm    Post subject:

Braves won again, too. I think they will be within 2 games of the Dodgers if the Dodgers lose tonight.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:22 pm    Post subject:

Pitiful. The team makes Beede look like an all-star even though he had a 5.61 era coming into this game (that era is even higher if you don’t include his start in June against the Dodgers).
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:24 pm    Post subject:

Coming into this game, Dodger starters had a 5.54 ERA since Aug. 26.

Meanwhile the Braves have won 9 games in a row.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:33 pm    Post subject:

Steve007 wrote:
Coming into this game, Dodger starters had a 5.54 ERA since Aug. 26.

Meanwhile the Braves have won 9 games in a row.


The Dodgers are playing like they wish the postseason started already and they are bored.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:21 pm    Post subject:

Jansen is in for the 9th inning. Leadoff single, a strikeout, then a stolen base which preceded a walk. Two on, one out. Velocity sitting at 90-91.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:22 pm    Post subject:

Is there a more painful Dodger pitcher to watch than Jansen?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:23 pm    Post subject:

greenfrog wrote:
Is there a more painful Dodger pitcher to watch than Jansen?


He hits 94 as he has two on and two out now.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:46 pm    Post subject:

The Giants were 2-8 in the last 10 games coming into this series.

Next opponent after this series will be the Orioles. That should be interesting.
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