DODGERS NEWS/RUMORS/AROUND MLB Thread

Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers · 3m3 minutes ago
Today, the Dodgers released RHP Ryan Webb.

 

The Dodgers are really re-writing the rules of engagement. As the MLB Trade Rumors article said, this is the first time ever in MLB histroy that a team has essentially bought a draft pick. With the FO and the GG backing them, we may be doing this a ll more in the near future and don't be surprised if we aren't done quite yet. The nerds have found a loophole and they are and will be exposing it.

However, this topic (issue to the rest of the league), I can almost guarantee, will be brought up in the off-season and might be addressed. In the meantime, this years draft combined with the talent foreign pool are going to make the franchise REALLYYYYYYYYYYYY strong for years and years to come.

 

draft picks are super important to this Kasten-led regime..it started before the nerds were even in place, although they did just execute this shrewd move. when a QO is attached to a free agent/potential target you may as well forget it..Dodgers will not touch him. guys with QO's aren't even worth discussing.

 

he and Andrew Heaney can have brunch and bond over it all

 

D'Bags being D'Bags again.

http://www.dodgersnation.com/diamon...-behind-home-plate-to-change-photo/2015/04/13

 

Cunts...

 

Read the article on DodgersDigest about how Hatcher had a lot more success last year when he's throwing his sinker. So far this year (obviously early), he's been throwing mostly 4 seamers, so we'll see if he adjusts his pitches.

 

And now released.

http://www.truebluela.com/2015/4/13/8406331/ryan-webb-released-dodgers-bought-draft-pick

 

signed a minor league deal with the Indians too. Confusing

 

i'd like to puttem in a headlock and squeeze til the top pops off

 

LOS ANGELES -- The Wally Pipp jokes aren't as funny after a while.

A few of the Los Angeles Dodgers dropped that old baseball gag on Juan Uribe -- you know, the one about the guy who lost his job to Lou Gehrig and forever after became a punch line -- when the popular veteran missed Sunday's game in Arizona with a tight left hamstring and saw his replacement,Alex Guerrero, drive in four runs.

Well, Monday it got a little more serious. Guerrero -- perhaps the most mysterious player on the Dodgers' 25-man roster -- showed the Dodgers he can do something else they didn't know he could do: get a bucket of sugary red liquid dumped on his head. Guerrero came up with a clutch, two-out single to drive in Andre Ethier with the winning run in the Dodgers' comeback 6-5 win over the Seattle Mariners in 10 innings andYasiel Puig gave him the requisite dowsing as he did his postgame interview.

The Dodgers love Uribe's leadership. They rely on his stabilizing defense for the left side of their infield. They felt like his bat down low in the lineup was a key to their offensive continuity last season.

Justin Turner batted .340 last year and was second to Yasiel Puig in wins above replacement among Dodgers position players and now Guerrero is starting to put some heat on Uribe, too.

"We've got some good stuff going on," Mattingly said. "We talk about it with [Turner]. I call him Ginobili because he could start a lot of places, but he's almost better for us off the bench. I look at it the same with Alex. We're going to need our full roster and, hopefully, our guys are buying in. We feel like that's the way to go for now."

Hard to miss that, "for now," at the end.

The Dodgers gave Alex Guerrero $28 million over four years fresh out of Cuba two winters ago without knowing much about him and, after a season in their organization, they really didn't gather all that much information. He was disappointing from the start at second base. He hit well in Triple-A, batting .329, but because of a vicious dugout fight with teammateMiguel Olivo that cost him part of his ear, he was limited to fewer than 250 at-bats.

All the Dodgers really knew this spring was that there was nowhere to put him. If he didn't make their 25-man roster, a contract clause would have allowed him to become a free agent and the Dodgers would have been out $14 million with nothing to show for it. That wasn't going to happen, not before they knew what kind of player they had on their hands.

Now, it's looking like, at a minimum, he could be a useful bench piece and, his upside could be as an everyday player. As usual, it's a question of when.

"I never had a doubt I could play in the big leagues," Guerrero said in Spanish. "But it's a process and I was playing in a new country and getting moved between positions, so it took a little while, but I always felt I could do this."

Guerrero isn't the only young player propping up what has otherwise been a mediocre week for the Dodgers. RelieversPedro Baez and Yimi Garcia combined for 1 2/3 strong innings of relief after Brandon McCarthy's wild ride of an outing -- 10 strikeouts and four home runs -- and those two seem to be sliding into crucial roles in a highly-fluid bullpen arrangement.

The Dodgers made a lot of changes this winter, but so far it's some of the overlooked players who were here all along who are providing some of the bright spots.





i told ya.." Wally Pipp'ed! " Lol

 

Dodgers are rumored to have an agreement with Cuban RHP Yadier Alvarez for 16 million according to Kiley McDaniel
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-international-signing-market-part-1/

 

This used to be the norm. Remember Karros, Piazza, Mondesi, Nomo, Hollandsworth?

 

Amazing how that mounted to nothing.

 

More than that, it's sad. O'Malley sold the team and the organization hasn't been the same since. The Guggenheim group (sp?) so far has been good for the club (overall), but the changes and upgrades initiated by them haven't come without a cost (I'm sure we're all aware of that ~ pick your favorite and/or least favorite cost/change). I do think we'll see a Series soon. Real question is when and how long will it really take. Ugh!