DODGERS 2017 NEWS/RUMORS/AROUND MLB Thread

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  1. ColoradoKidWitGame

    ColoradoKidWitGame DSP Legend Administrator

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    I really have no idea, I just mostly noticed it from watching and the numbers somewhat back it up. Truthfully, I think Grandal has also started to get stiffed somewhat and the reason I really started to think about it was after a series with the Rockies RIGHT before the slump. One of their bigger bloggers went on a firestorm about how the strike zone for the Dodgers pitchers was significantly larger than the Rockies was. He pitched a long tirade with overlays and some bigger national guys tweeted about it too. Soon after, it felt like things changed. Not sure that was the reason why these close calls stopped going our way, but the timing is somewhat suspicious.
     
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    glad you brought this up cwtg
    grandal [the hitter] whines about more called strikes than anyone i've ever seen... seriously
    not the wisest thing to do -- especially if you're the catcher
    one thing to say something to the ump with your head down
    but to visibly show your displeasure for all to see?...
    even the fairest of umpires are going to subconsciously call shit against you [your pitchers]
    just dumb
    maybe the toxins from the hair plugs penetrating his scalp
     
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    Personally, I don't mind the catcher giving it to the ump some. They just have very different relationships with umps being that they share the same workspace for so much of the time, usually know how far they can take it and so there's a comfort there. Go back out there after the inning and say whatever to patch it up and the game goes on. Somebody on the field has to light into these umps sometimes. Back in the day the catchers were absolutely the mouthpiece for the team, so in a way Yasmani is old school. Still, at the end of the day these umps are graded and evaluated by their accuracy, so they shouldn't be out there fuckin around and holding grudges anyway.
     
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    On the otherhand, with his baseball career uncertain, maybe he can step up his boxing and make a run for a heavyweight division title.
     
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    Four 160 lb. guys at the same time? Shit...what did you expect?
     
  6. irish

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    used to box when i was younger
    guys told me i had a great chin...
    translation: you get hit too much
    got tired of hurting opponent's hands with my face
     
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    yeah but there's an etiquette involved
    and the old school way is to do it without the anyone knowing
    tilt your head down, claw the box with your spikes, and quietly say something
    umps are no different than anyone else in that they don't like being shown up
    i remember one time taking a called strike three that was clearly off the plate
    i said nothing, made no gestures
    next time up the catcher goes out to the mound
    umpire (with his mask on) says "i may have missed that last one on you, so i owe you one"
    i know... nice story bro
    but if i would have bkitched and/or been demonstrative, i would have to be up there hacking the rest of the game
     
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    Keep getting spanked by the d-bags and Rockies.
    Playing our last three games in Coors Field is a terrible scenario. No team should have to suffer it
     
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    Of course that way can work too. I just don't worry about my catcher talking up an ump because he'll have ample opportunity to walk it back. They have so many back and forths with umps during games/over the years that there's just a foundation there that non-catchers don't normally have. If Yasmani starts losing strikes, I'll begin to worry.
     
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    Wait, we killed it?

    I always heard it was the Pads who decided against it?
     
  11. CapnTreee

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    yeah but

    yeah but how many years in a row did we all complain about ending with a 3 game series at the Stick in the fay?

    Winners win. wherever.
     
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    To be thoroughly pleasured.
     
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    http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-shohei-ohtani-20170930-htmlstory.html

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    Had Ohtani stuck to his original plan of moving abroad out of high school, there’s a chance he would be preparing for the National League playoffs right now.

    Many MLB teams were courting him, but he was thinking of signing with the Dodgers.

    “I can’t say that for sure, but there’s a strong possibility that’s what would have happened,” he said.

    The Dodgers scout in Japan at the time, Keiichi Kojima — now a consultant for the Arizona Diamondbacks — had gained Ohtani’s trust by attending Hanamaki Higashi’s practices on nearly a daily basis.

    Ohtani’s dilemma then had one striking similarity to his present-day one: There were new limits on how much MLB teams could pay amateur players. The most the Dodgers could offer him was around $1 million, which was less than he could get from an NPB team.

    “I still want to go,” Sasaki recalled Ohtani telling him.

    One of the reasons was that American teams saw him as a pitcher; Japanese teams wanted him to hit.

    The Fighters disregarded the request Ohtani made to NPB teams to not draft him and offered him an alternative: Do both.











    Was reported a long while back that LAD had a scout over there damn near living with Ohtani's family, getting close to them. Kojima's that guy, I guess.
     
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    i know its after the fact
    but have to wonder what it would have taken to get doolittle
    looks like the nats gave up a couple of promising low/mid level prospects so idk
    but the guy has been fucken nails and would have greatly helped bridge the gap from starter to kenley
     
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    Doolittle's got those chronic shoulder issues, so maybe LAD wasn't willing to meet the asking price or beat the Nats out because of that
    Nats were so desperate, Doolittle could've been on life support and they would've been sitting bedside with a contract
     
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    ah, i didn't know that :retard:
    that changes things
     
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    Not just Dolittle. Madsen or Kintzler would have been nice additions, too.
     
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    Never stopped this front office in the past.
     
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    Yeah, LAD was rumored to be hot after Doolittle last year and wanted him in the Hill/Reddick package, but the value couldn't be determined because Doolittle was dealing with the shoulder stuff and inconsistency in performance. Beane wasn't going to sell him off at a low point..not a lefty with his talent
     
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    If he were a free agent, he would've been signed.
    You start talking about trade compensation and that changes things.
     
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