LADodgerTalk.com – Matt Kemp, Clayton Kershaw, Vin Scully, Andre Ethier and the Dodgers

First of all – I must tell you that this is no joke.  There is nothing funny here.  No jokes, like before.  I am just going to give you my take on Hiroki Kuroda: Stand up guy.  As a person, there’s nothing you can say bad about Hiroki.  I was watching when he was hit [...]

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Hiroki will be in Pinstripes in 2012.   I figured him for Boston or NY.  So it was no surprise. The question now becomes whether Ned did the right thing in signing Capuano and Harang instead of Kuroda.  I guess time will tell, but I think the fact that he decided to sign them instead of [...]

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According to ESPN.com, Joe Torre has quit his day job and is joining half of Los Angeles in bidding for the Dodgers.  The money behind the bid is allegedly Rick Caruso, but I think there may have to be some more money backing that deal.  Evidently Joe is serious.  He would likely be team President [...]

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I hope that Hiroki Kuroda signs with the Colorado Rockies, mostly because he is a worthless piece of crap who has the brains of a snail.  Other than that, I think he’s a wonderful idiot!  Hiroki loved the Dodgers so much that he refused a traded to a team (BoSox) where he might have won [...]

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Signing Matt Treanor is not news because it would be a shame if he actually  took a roster spot from either A.J. or Fed-X. It’s such a non-factor that I won’t address it anymore. He’s the Dioner Navarro of 2012 – that’s the best I can say.  A million dollars?  OK?  Well, he does have [...]

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Lineups Dodgers Justin Sellers SS Tony Gwynn LF Matt Kemp CF Juan Rivera RF Casey Blake 3B James Loney 1B Jamey Carroll 2B AJ Ellis C Hiroki Kuroda P Cardinals Jon Jay CF Rafael Furcal SS Albert Pujols 1B Matt Holliday LF Lance Berkman RF Skip Schumaker 2B Gerald Laird C Daniel Descalso 3B Jaime [...]

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Final Score: Dodgers 8, Rockies 2 Yes, I guaranteed the win. Yes, I accept gifts. No, don’t ask me to do it every day. That makes it less valuable when I actually do it. The Dodgers struck early, led by offensive stalwarts Rod Barajas and Tony Gwynn. As a matter of fact, only the 8 [...]

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Lineups Dodgers Tony Gwynn LF Justin Sellers SS Aaron Miles 3B Matt Kemp CF Juan Rivera RF James Loney 1B Rod Barajas C Jamey Carroll 2B Hiroki Kuroda P Rockies Dexter Fowler CF Chris Nelson 3B Carlos Gonzalez RF Troy Tulowitzki SS Todd Helton 1B Seth Smith LF Eliezer Alfonzo C Mark Ellis 2B Jason [...]

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Before we get to the interview, let me bring up a few things that are on my mind. The PCL Factor:  Travyon Robinson hit 32 HR in about 1,100 AB’s at Inland Empire which is known as a “hitter’s league.”  Then, last season he hit 9 HR at Chattanooga (523 AB’s) which is a “pitcher’s league.”  [...]

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No, I don’t mean that Frank McCourt should sell Ned Colletti (wait, maybe that’s not such a bad idea… but I doubt there’s a buyer). What I mean is that it is time to trade Hiroki Kuroda, Aaron Miles (yes, there are teams who want him), Jamey Carroll, Rod Barajas, Dionaro Navarro (maybe there’s one [...]

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If you were grading the Dodgers first-half performance the team would have to get a D -. There’s no way to sugar-coat it – the Dodgers sucked big time in the first half.  There were a few bright spots including Clayton Kershaw, Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, Jamey Carroll and even Aaron Miles.  At the end [...]

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A few years ago, I was repeatedly berated for calling Andre Ethier “soft.”  I backed off for a while when he had some clutch hits, but let’s face the truth:  He is soft.  He’s a singles hitter who can’t hit lefties.  It is what it is.  You can’t pay a soft player what he is [...]

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I feel more confidence in the Dodgers 2011 starting rotation than any other Dodger starting rotation in the past several years.  Barring injury or alien possession, the Starting Five should be very good.  While not the best in all of baseball (at least not now, not on paper), this group has to be in the [...]

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See, what the Robots don’t understand is that 25 men with passion can defeat a great army of trained soldiers. There is no stat for passion, desire, “want-to” or “can-do.” Ted Lilly, Juan Uribe, Jon Garland, Hiroki Kuroda and Rod Barajas wanted to be in LA for various reasons. They had a passion to play in 2011 for the Dodgers – never minimize that! Give me some guys who want to play together, who have a passion for being where they are and for the game and I’ll deliver you a winner!

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Trade Chad Billingsley and Trayvon Robinson for Carlos Quentin? Trade Jon Broxton and  Ivan DeJesus, Jr.  for Martin Prado? Would you sign Vicente Padilla to be a closer? If the Dodgers did that, this could be the lineup: Furcal  SS Prado  2B Kemp  CF Ethier  RF Quentin  LF Loney  1B Uribe  3B Barajas/Ellis  C Bench: [...]

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I have a hunch that James McDonald and Andrew Lambo for Octavio “Don’t Tell Me” Dotel and Tony Jackson, the Sportswriter from Arkansas, could go down as Ned’s biggest blunder.  I’m just sayin’ Jerry Sands is putting it together.  He was sent to the AFL to work on his batting eye and he has delivered [...]

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OK,  I know that this is going to be just like the Jon Broxton thing (“I have an irrational hatred of Broxton because I can see in his eyes”), but I still have to say it:   The object of the Dodgers affection should be Adrian Beltre.  I can see it already:  “Timmons has an [...]

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Think how different the Dodgers might have been this year without the contracts of Broxton and Sherrill. They could have afforded another big bat or top-of-the-rotation starter. I begged them to trade Brox for two years and Sherrill after last season. Some people think that I am just a “Broxton Hater” and that there is no way that I can tell he is not a guy who thrives under pressure, Think what you want – don’t judge me by what you can do – but I have been saying that Broxton chokes under pressure for three years and that the Dodgers should have traded him.

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The Dodgers are 15th in Batting Average (.235) and tied for last in Runs Scored with the Mets at 183. That’s an average of less than 3.3 Runs Per Game. That is a total breakdown and it is worse than pitiful! It is unacceptable and heads must roll! Torre, Mattingly and Pentland must face the Guillotine!

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