Reviewing the Deadline

August 23, 2022

Mark’s going to be busy this week, so I’m going to try to fill a couple of days with posts while he’s out.  It’s not going to be easy for me as I’m starting a six months Cyber Security program tonight, so I’m going to have a little less time going forward.  Hopefully, OldBear and Evan will help fill the void to give our daily readers something to read and…

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“DUCKY”

August 6, 2022

Joseph Michael Medwick was born on November 24, 1911, in Carteret, New Jersey. He was the 4th child of Joesph and Elizabeth Medwick. He was of Hungarian decent. His parents immigrated to the US in 1893. His obituary stated that he was a four-sport star in high school, track, football, basketball, and baseball. He won all-state honors as a half-back in football and had many offers from colleges to play…

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Let’s do Math!

July 22, 2022

Digging into the Math behind the Trade Simulator I am generally a non-believer whenever I read anything, for the most part. This is my way of saying that I’m really skeptical.  I’m mostly this way after taking a couple of college courses, A logic philosophy class and a statistics math class.  My first statistics class had an assigned reading book called “How to Lie With Statistics” by Darrell Huff, which…

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Tonight is the Most Important Start of the Season

July 21, 2022

Tonight’s game against the Giants could likely prove to be one of the most important… if not THE MOST IMPORTANT START of the season for a Dodger pitcher. Why? Simply because in his last start, Mitch White gave up ten Hits and six Earned Runs, raising his ERA from 3.38 to 4.20. Mitch has started twelve major league games in his short career, and eight of them have been this…

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Are the Dodgers Ruining Andrew Freidman?

April 26, 2022

In 2008, Andrew Friedman took the Tampa Bay Rays to the World Series with a $51,000,000 Dollar Payroll. They didn’t win. The $112,000,000 Dollar Phillies did, but it was remarkable that the Rays made it that far on so little money spent. In 2021, the Dodgers did not even get to the World Series and their payroll was $262,000,000 Dollars. That’s more than 5X what AF paid in 2008. Of…

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Gavin, Belli, Doc, and Andrew

August 20, 2021

That is not the law firm defending Trevor Bauer, but it is the four most scrutinized members of the LAD organization.  I started to respond to Mark’s post from yesterday, but I got called away for errands. It then got too long for a response, so I decided to make it my own post. I am writing this before Game 1 with NYM, so this could all go to H***…

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SOME POST TRADE DEADLINE OBSERVATIONS FROM THE RECLINER

August 1, 2021

With Mark on the 10-day inactive list to attend to family business in Las Vegas (ever notice how these trips are never to Des Moines, Iowa or Wichita, Kansas?), Jeff (AC) was desperate for some assistance on the LADT writers roster. With his options limited, he had to resort to adding someone from the alternate training site, and had no choice but to call on me, the Zack Reks/Edwin Uceta…

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AC Musings for 01-18-21

January 18, 2021

There has been a lot of discussion as to what is the best way to develop a team; a team for sustained contending.  Most LAD fans believe that AF builds his team for success from within.  Others believe organizations can build a winning team by trading prospects for young controllable MLB stars.  Others believe they need to sign affordable free agents.  Most believe you need a bit of all the…

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Trickle Down Impact of San Diego Moves

January 3, 2021

Somebody made a point as to what the Padres transactions did for the psyche for the other teams.  The Padres have now joined the Dodgers, Braves, probably Mets, and maybe the Nationals (with their pitching and Soto/Robles/Turner) to separate from the rest of the NL.  Some team from the NL Central will get to the playoffs, because, well one of the teams has to.  It is a rule. Because of…

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Where There is a Will, There is a Way

September 19, 2020

Right now Dodger catcher Will Smith is the talk of the town and perhaps rightfully so. Just a few short weeks ago he was being thrown on the scrap heap by some Dodger faithful. I for one am not surprised that he has stepped up to claim the starting role as the Dodgers’ catcher. It was mentioned the other day that there was nothing to suggest that this transformation could…

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