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OK, it’s almost time for pitchers and catchers to report.  I’ll make some predictions for the 2012 season.  This is from the gut, not from any empirical evidence: Fed-Ex will be the Dodgers starting catcher before the season is over. Javy Guerra will be supplanted by Kenley Jansen as the Dodgers closer (in fact, I [...]

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I want you to consider a few questions and how you would have answered them on January 20, 2010: If I had told you that James Loney would hit more home runs than Andre Ethier in 2010,  would you have probably felt pretty good about the 2010 season? If I had told you that RDLR [...]

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Wanted: 23-Year Old Cy Young Award Winner Who Is One Of The Top Five Pitchers in Baseball. How much would you have to pay for that? $10 Million? That’s a bargain. What a deal! Pay him and smile!

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The title of this post was inspired by the book “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” by Stephen King.  If you haven’t read it, you should* – but I digress!  I frequently compare my writing style to Stephen King, other than the fact that I can’t write and have no style, we are the same! [...]

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Now that Frank McCourt has been give the go-ahead by the bankruptcy court (barring reversal upon appeal) to negotiate a new TV deal, he might just have given Ned the go-ahead and sign Prince Fielder. As near as I can figure, I think it will take probably the same amount Albert Pujols received. He’s 5 years younger [...]

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I have not had a Top Ten for a while, at least not ranked in order, but I’ll break form and name my Top 10 for 2012.   Absent from the list are Jerry Sands, Nate Eovaldi, Josh Lindblom and Dee Gordon, all of whom made the show for various intervals last year and all [...]

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Shoot!  Shouldn’t all of Major League Baseball learn from the Cardinals?   Last years Hot Stove signings included Carl Crawford and Jason Werth who both were gigantic (and expensive) boat anchors for their teams.  The Cardinals, on the other hand, didn’t make any big waves.  Hey, they already had one of the Top 5 players [...]

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Sporting News’ AL and NL All-Star Teams Announced October 27 – Voted on by 55 members of major league front offices, twenty-six AL executives and 29 NL executives, Sporting News has released its 2011 AL and NL All-Star teams, presented by Gillette Odor Shield. Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander, chosen as the team’s starting pitcher, [...]

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Frank and Ned, The season is over and now some real work begins.  I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt, Frank.  I mean, it’s possible you won’t own the team next year, but I am working under the premise that you will, for no other reason than you own it now. [...]

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We live in a time when wins and saves evidently don’t mean anything for pitchers.  A time when batting average and RBI are diminished because of new stats like WAR, OBP, OPS and  plethora of other statistics that can prove whatever the writer wants.  Stats?  Yeah – I read ‘em, I  like ‘em – I [...]

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Lineups Dodgers Dee Gordon SS Jamey Carroll 2B Matt Kemp CF Juan Rivera LF Aaron Miles 3B James Loney 1B Jerry Sands RF Rod Barajas C Clayton Kershaw P Padres Cameron Maybin CF Jason Bartlett SS Nick Hundley C Jesus Guzman 1B Chris Denorfia RF Orlando Hudson 2B Aaron Cunningham LF Alberto Gonzalez 3B Cory [...]

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1966, 1965, 1964 and 1963, when Sandy Koufax dominated.  Of course, the mound was a lot higher then.  I wonder how much better Clayton would do with an eighteen inch mound?  We’ll never know, but we do know this:   Unless Clayton blows up in his last two starts, he should win the Cy Young – end [...]

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I think that the Dodgers have to bring James Loney back next year.  Maybe he just was allergic to Jeff Pentland.   It could be.  How could you think otherwise?  Loney has went from being gone for good to being a candidate for a long-term deal. So, Frank McCourt is pursuing Plan A (get a [...]

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I have been a Dodger fan for nearly 50 years, but I’m not from LA.  Some of you will say that doesn’t qualify me to be a real Dodger fan because I wasn’t “born” into the family.  I say it qualifies me more because I “adopted” it.  Dodger fans from LA had no choice – [...]

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Clayton Kershaw is now the Ace of Spades!  Cy Young in waiting!  Yes, I know he has at least 2 more starts. Before the season started, I heard that Clayton would “probably be an ace someday” but that he wasn’t that elite pitcher yet. Let me pose you one question now: If you were the [...]

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Right here, right now, the LosAngeles Dodgers, who were long ago declared dead and buried (by many, including me), are the hottest teamk in baseball and stand poised to pull within one game of .500 with their Ace on the hill today.   It would take an incredible run, but it is possible that by next [...]

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The 2011 Dodgers are 7 games under .500 and are 11 games out of first place.  They also have won 5 in a row and have 18 more games with division rivals, mostly the Giants and D-Backs.  Of those 18 games, 10 are at home (of the 8 away games, 3 are at Petco).  Do you [...]

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Final Score: Dodgers 13, Cardinals 2 Clayton Kershaw recorded his 16th win of the year, the first time it’s happened since Billingsley won 16 in ’08. He also struck out 8, including Albert Pujols, Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman, to become the youngest pitcher to record back to back 200 strikeout seasons since Doc Gooden. [...]

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Lineups Dodgers Justin Sellers SS James Loney 1B Matt Kemp CF Juan Rivera LF Andre Ethier RF Aaron Miles 3B Rod Barajas C Jamey Carroll 2B Clayton Kershaw P Cardinals Rafael Furcal SS Allen Craig CF Albert Pujols 1B Matt Holliday LF Lance Berkman RF David Freese 3B Yadier Molina C Ryan Theriot 2B Kyle [...]

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