Joc Pederson hit 36 HR’s in 2019. That’s a lot. In fact, it was the most of any player not named Bellinger for the Dodgers. Joc has 123 HR in his short career. Duke Snider, of course, holds the Los Angeles All-Time Home Run Record at 389, but in a season and a half, Joc should be in the Top 10 in LA Dodger All-Time Home Runs. That’s pretty dang…
This is your forum. Pick what you want to talk about today. A good place to start is The Athletic’s Molly Knight who talks about how what the Astros did is different… and why pitchers are livid. This from MLB Trade Rumors.com: Relief pitching looks to be a clear need for the Nationals this offseason…or is it? As Jesse Dougherty of the Washington Post observes, the Nats’ early acquisitions of Trevor Rosenthal and Kyle Barraclough last winter ended…
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real…
On the Dodgers web site on Monday Ken Gurnick posted an article, “Lasorda vs. Phanatic and funniest LA moments”. It immediately brought back the memory of an article I posted on Think Blue LA on March 19, 2014. That article was prompted by a video of Mark Monninger, the Dodgers Rally Bear. I watched the video that accompanied the article and certainly enjoyed the performance as apparently did the fans…
It’s is becoming pretty apparent that the Astros are a bunch of cheating, dirty-rotten scoundrels who stole the 2017 World Series from the LA Dodgers with their Criminal ways. In some aspects, this is worthy of a “Pete Rose-Type Ban” for the Players involved. The video evidence is mounting all over YouTube, compiled by amateurs. Rob Manfred and his Minions should have independent counsel or prosecutors investigating this and forcing…
• Admittedly, the constant banter about trade speculation and the wait for free agents to sign can be very wearying for me . . . Frankly, I can’t wait for the winter meetings to start. My baseball life was so slow this week, that I actually found myself spending some rather depressing time thinking about the Dodger signing Andrew Jones, Jason Schmidt, and Darryl Strawberry. Oh my! Please, please, please,…
If in response to the above question, you said “Not Much!” I will say you may or may not be right. See, indecision may or may not be part of my problem, and no one knows what a bullpen guy will do from year-to-year, but I will say that you cannot look at the past and predict what a bullpen pitcher will do in the future. You can guess… even…
With the addition of DJ Peters (OF), Mitchell White (RHP), and Zach McKinstry (Utility), the 40 man roster is set. We can all debate as to who we think would have been a better choice to be protected, but I have no quarrel with who was ultimately protected. AF could have influenced by a number of calls for a specific prospect or lack of calls for a specific prospect to…
Last week I submitted a post on Joe Black indicating it was one of my two favorite articles that I have ever written. The other was on Jim Gilliam that I profiled on Think Blue LA on April 25, 2016. AC was/is a huge Jim Gilliam fan and suggested I pull this one out of the mothballs so AC this one is for you, again. As a youngster growing up…
In 2018, Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. hit .381 over 4 minor league levels with a .437 OB%. He hit 20 HR and 29 doubles to go with 37 walks and 38 strikeouts in 357 AB’s. His OPS for the year was 1.073. He was the 2018 Minor League Player of the Year. In 2019, Gavin Lux hit .347 across two minor league levels with a .421 OB%. He hit 26 HR…