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Reliever Statistics and Minor League Report

With all of the statistics discussion yesterday, and much of it directed to relief pitching, I thought that I would gather some Dodger relief pitching comparisons, keying on inherited runners and inherited runners scored. See table below. With the recall of Adam Liberatore, the Dodgers have now used 10 relief pitchers. 6 of those relief pitchers have entered into the games and have inherited runners. On 13 different occasions, 20

By Jeff Dominique · April 19, 201812

Allen Roth Bill James

Dodger Chatter: Baseball Statistics the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Baseball, among all of the major sports, is the one most closely linked to statistics. There seems to be a stat for just about every circumstance one can imagine. Each year the game becomes more and more saturated with statistics. The use of statistics in the greatest game of all is not new. The practice of keeping records of player achievements was started in the nineteenth century by Henry Chadwick .

By Mark Timmons · April 18, 201837

Alex Verdugo Conner Wong

Don t Confuse Yourself!

I don t know if this is where the ship turns around, but I have always said that this team has too much talent to fail very long. This team is finally figuring out how to work the count and hit as a team picking each other up. Some of you think the Dodgers didn t make wholesale moves over the winter because FAZ is from a small market and is not

By Mark Timmons · April 17, 201869

Alex Verdugo Andrew Toles

What Will FAZ Do???

This will be somewhat unusual for me, as generally I am an extremely unapologetic pro-FAZ supporter, and I still am. But to critically examine any operation, personal biases need to be thrown out, even when it comes to the Dodgers. Sports team owners do not get into the game for short term profits. The big profits come when the team is sold. For the Dodgers, the ownership group has

By Jeff Dominique · April 16, 201847

Alex Verdugo Andrew Toles

Stop the Insanity!

The fact that the Dodgers are 4-9 is not what bothers me. This stuff happens in baseball, but what bothers me is how this happens to a team that won 104 games last year and finished a game short of winning the World Series. What bothers me is that the team went 52-8 and then lost 16 in a row. How can that happen? Why are they sooooo good and then

By Mark Timmons · April 15, 201838

Alex Verdugo Andrew Toles

Let s Not Forget Henry Ramos

There s not much to talk about for the 4-8 Dodgers who are struggling with the cobwebs between their ears, so I thought I would focus on a player that I happen to really like whose name is not Andrew Toles or Alex Verdugo. Dodger fans assume that Toles and/or Verdugo will be the next callups for the Dodgers and they may be, but the Dodgers have a player who does

By Mark Timmons · April 14, 201832

Andrew Toles Dave Roberts

What a Train Wreck!

It is rumored that the Phillies and Dodgers are in trade talks for their managers although the 6-5 Phillies are asking for a GM to be named later if they take the manager of the 4-7 train-wrecked Dodgers. Move along folks, there s nothing to see here. Look, it s simple! I try to break it down to the simplest explanation. The Dodgers only have four problems: (1) Can t Hit; (2) Can t

By Mark Timmons · April 12, 201846

Chris Taylor Hyun-Jin Ryu

The Dodgers Are Turning Back the Clock to the Future

When the Dodgers re-acquired Matt Kemp this past winter, some fans were ecstatic while others felt he would wreck the chemistry of the Dodgers locker room. Ladies and Gentlemen, the old locker room-wrecking malcontent has been replaced by the new, ingratiating and consummate teammate Matt Kemp. Matt Kemp has become fast friends with Justin Turner and even Cody Bellinger. On Justin Turner, who still has pain in his wrist, Ken

By Mark Timmons · April 11, 201841

Adrian Gonzalez Alex Freedman

Alex Freedman Voice of the OKC Dodgers

Dodger Chatter or DC as we call him wants to do a blog on each Dodger minor league play-by-play announcer. This is the first! Enjoy! Dodger Chatter The heart and soul of baseball minor league baseball kicked off another season on Thursday, April 5. Four Dodger affiliates were scheduled for action with the Oklahoma City Dodgers playing a double header due to a cancellation of their game on

By Mark Timmons · April 10, 201821

Andre Scrubb Austin Hamilton

Melvin Jimenez and Edwin Uceta Make 2018 Loons Debut

Jimenez, from Santiago in the Dominican Republic, was signed as an international free agent by the Dodgers on December 23, 2015. During the 2016 season he played with the DSL Dodgers making 12 appearances, all of them starts. In six of those starts he pitched five innings and had an additional two appearances of six and four innings respectively. On the season, the right-handed Jimenez posted a 1.47 ERA along

By Mark Timmons · April 9, 201823

Rich Hill Wilmer Font

I Am Not Giving Up on Font Yet!

It s easy to blame the loss yesterday on Wilmer Font and that would be correct at any level, but does that mean that the Dodgers should dump him? Someone said that the only reason FAZ kept was so they would not lose him. Well, duuuhhhh. Of course, that s why they kept him! Maybe the Dodgers have seen enough, but I haven t. His control has not been great, but he has

By Mark Timmons · April 8, 201831

Andrew Toles Alex Wood

First Week Observations

Some first week observations: It is obvious that the Dodgers offense misses JT; the one clutch hitter in the lineup. The only offense thus far is Yasmani Grandal. Without any concrete evidence, it is my opinion that the Owings HR off of Jansen with two outs in the 9th on the Monday game against the DBacks had a negative impact on the Tuesday and Wednesday games. The Dodgers have

By Jeff Dominique · April 6, 201858

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