Postseason NEWS/RUMORS/INJURIES Thread

I started off semi serious btw. Now it just got out of hand.

 

NL adopting the reason would be the perfect incentive to...
re-sign Hanley
Although having Arry in the lineup defeats the purpose of the DH.

 

i know..it was a play on the thread you posted the update in.

 

if the NL adopts the DH, i'd very much like to see VMart get signed by LAD

 

Now the White Sox GM is the latest name in the LAD GM replacement rumors...I hope these guys are tired of wallowing in the spectator environment of the post season annually, and they pull the trigger on almost anyone else. It's worth a try, IMO, and so is some radical managerial change....say like one of the Molinas that are out of BB...they are totally in the game when they played, just like Yadier, the douche, was the other night, and possibly could be the type of leadership the team needs.
Do something.
Of course if the faggotty DH comes to the NL, and they play this other game they call baseball, then it doesn't matter at all who they get.Douchebaggery at it's height. A fucking moron can manage an AL team, and many have. Might as well keep Donnie then. We can live vicariously through Donnie and his Yankee career stats, and glory in his prowess as a JoTo student.

 

Friedman and Maddon..come on down.

 

Yes! Fuck that AL baseball. It's a bullshit style used for dumbed up so called fans of the sport. I doubt I will ever see it in my lifetime but they need to do away with the dh

 

I too hate the DH. I was just joking around

 

I fucking really hate the DH and I hope it never comes to the NL..................

............ but it probably would benefit us on the field shit

 

i agree with Kenley in that the Cards were obviously clutch, but i'll take it one further..the Dodgers struggled to come back in the late innings all year long. what was the stat again?..Dodgers had 1 or 2 wins all year where they rallied from behind after the 7th inning? some shit like that. anyway, i remember somebody sayin it was just a fluke and not to think much of it. but then we get to the playoffs and find out what?..that this Dodger team wasn't clutch.

 

The Dodgers scored late in the games 1 and 2. Were very close the last game. Not as bad as the regular season.

 

and then scored 3 runs in the final 2 games.

 

Dodgers Notes: Pitching, Hanley, Colletti
By Mark Polishuk [October 13, 2014 at 8:41am CDT]
Here’s the latest from Vin Scully’s team…

• The Dodgers aren’t likely to sign any starting pitcher that would cost them a draft pick, a source tells ESPN Los Angeles’ Mark Saxon. This would rule out the likes of Max Scherzer, James Shields or any other free agent arm who will have qualifying offer draft compensation attached to their services. As Saxon notes, the Dodgers’ primary offseason goal is to inject more youth into their roster, as “they’re terrified of becoming” a team loaded with declining veterans, a la the Phillies or Yankees.
• Speaking of qualifying offers, Steve Dilbeck of the Los Angeles Times looks at whether or not the Dodgers would extend a QO to Hanley Ramirez. The qualifying offer (not to mention his injury history and subpar shortstop defense) could hurt Ramirez’s market, which creates the possibility that he could accept the one-year, $15.3MM offer and stay with a Dodger team that may prefer to move on from Ramirez. “It seems like a no-brainer,” Dilbeck writes, that L.A. would give Ramirez a QO and I agree — despite Ramirez’s issues, he’ll surely find a multiyear deal on the free agent market and thus there is very little threat of him accepting the qualifying offer. Even if he did accept, that would hardly be a major problem for the Dodgers since (as Dilbeck notes), Ramirez could then serve as a one-year bridge until prospect Corey Seager is ready at short.
• Also from Dilbeck, he doesn’t think GM Ned Colletti deserves to be fired for the club’s failure to advance beyond the NLDS. The Dodgers have been generally successful during Colletti’s tenure and blaming him for the many large and problematic contracts on the payroll isn’t fair since upper management signed off on those deals, Dilbeck writes.
• While the Dodgers would like to keep A.J. Ellis , the team could non-tender the catcher and then re-sign him at a lower price tag, MLB.com’s Ken Gurnick opines. Ellis made $3.55MM in 2014 and he still has two years of arbitration eligibility left as a Super Two player. Ellis’ arbitration raise will be a modest one, as he hit only .191/.323/.254 in 347 PA last season, though Ellis’ hitting isn’t as valuable to the club as his defense and relationship with the pitching staff. According to Gurnick, it seems likely that the Dodgers will acquire another catcher this offseason to compete with Ellis for the starting job.

 

with that said..Jon Lester, come on down. i've changed my thinking in that it'd be greedy of LAD fans to want a 4th top end starter. i was already kinda leaning that way since Greinke can opt out after next year and we had a couple of our top end guys miss time this year ( never can predict health for a pitcher). but i guess what puts me over the top is the way Kershaw needs to be handled going forward..and some of that needs to be handled by making the right moves with the bullpen of course because he really doesn't need to go 8 innings as much as he does going forward, but i think next year should be the end of Kershaw going on 3 days rest in the playoffs. the Yankees asked a similar power lefty in Sabathia to go on 3 days rest every year in the post season and they ruined him. Dodgers can cover their bets on both Kershaw and Greinke if they add a 4th guy like Lester. Lester will be 31 in January..4yrs/94M with a player option after the 3rd year. he's from Seattle, so he can be closer to home as well as have a chance to win immediately ( what he wouldn't have with the Cubs, where a lot of pundits have him winding up).

 

they seem to want to build both ways. i think Lester would be a great get for us. he's not as dominant as Scherzer right now of course, but i like the idea of goin berserk with lefties.

here's a " what if " for you..what if they sign Lester, let Greinke go next year and replace him with Price, and then bring Urias up for 2016?

L Kershaw
L Lester
L Price
L Ryu
L Urias

Lol greatest lefty rotation ever by default.

 

because that's how you become a old team like the Phillies have become, throwing away the acquisition of potential good young talent is risky. I'm not completely against giving up the pick to get a great player, especially since we're picking like 26th or something, but it would still be nice to find another young stud, too.