Justin Turner

RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE CURRENT STATE OF BASEBALL

May 18, 2020
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While battling with coronavirus fatigue as I navigate through the uncertainties in the legal world, I provide a short “Random Thoughts” post for your consideration: I will start by saying that I really hope that I’m wrong, but I do not believe there will be baseball this year. With guidelines for “opening up” society being such a moving target, I cannot envision any scenario whereby MLB and the Players Union…

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Do Deep Teams Have an Advantage in a Short Season

May 7, 2020
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Much has been said and written about the Dodgers depth and how that makes them a very dangerous team.  I do not think that there is a question (at least not for me), that the premier builder of the 40 man roster is Andrew Friedman.  During his tenure, over the last five years in a 162 game season, the Dodgers have 485 wins, more than any other team in MLB. …

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2021 LAD Free Agents

May 3, 2020
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There has certainly been a lot of optimistic discussions going on throughout the Baseball World about the possibility of MLB in 2020.  I think most of us want to believe that there will be MLB this year, but have doubts in conjunction with those hopes.  There has been a lot of speculation as to how a season would play out.  How many games?  How many divisions?  What size roster?  How…

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Could the Dodgers Really Field Two MLB Teams?

March 15, 2020
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There’s not much to do with the MLB season on hold, the NBA season on hold, the NCAA Tournament canceled, High School Tournaments in limbo, schools closed, and restaurants and theaters are persona non-Grotta. My youngest son and I spent the day plumbing his house, the house he has had since he was 18 (he’s almost 21 now) and has totally gutted and rebuilt it. It was built in 1900…

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Andrew Friedman is Ruining Dodger Blogs

March 10, 2020
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For years, Dodgers blogs have been a sacred place where Dodger fans went to lament their fate, cry in their beer, pontificate how bad the team, coaches, managers, general managers, and owners were, and generally write about how they could do a better job than whoever happened to be in charge. When Andrew Friedman was hired by the Dodgers as President of Baseball Operations, he was greeted with jeers, smears,…

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Connected With… Alanna Rizzo

March 9, 2020
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One of my all-time favorite movies is “The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn” starring Sidney Poitier.  In it, Poitier plays Noah Dearborn, a 91‑year old carpenter who lives a simple life and existence, detached from modern life.   His only interest is woodworking, at which he is very gifted.  In his hands, woodworking tools are not just tools, they become instruments for creating works of art.   Poitier, who is also a…

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Rowan and Martin

March 1, 2020
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Abbreviated Spring Time Random Thoughts – by 2Demeter2 (aka/Rowan) I was hoping to finish my article on Alanna Rizzo this week, but I have been down and out with the flu and a cold for the past 4 days, feeling rather punkish.  So that article will have to wait for another day.   On the other hand, one of the “benefits” of being down and out was that I got to…

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Random Thoughts on Spring Training

February 23, 2020
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On Saturday, AC provided us with an amazing analysis of questions to be answered this spring.  It prompted me to go back a few years and see what the pressing questions were in the spring for the past few seasons and how they were answered:  Last year, the top questions facing the Dodgers heading into Spring training were: •      Is Clayton Kershaw definitely in decline?    I would feel safe to…

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It’s Time For Dodger Baseball

February 22, 2020
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Time for Dodger Baseball. I like the sound of that as we begin Spring Training games today against the hated Giants. We all know ST games are meaningless in wins and losses, but I still want to see a win in every game. If you compete, compete to win. Before I get into ST, I want to offer my response to the apparent skepticism about the Dodger pitching. Are there…

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