Tony Gonsolin

AC’s 2021 Pitching Preview as of 11-03-2020

November 4, 2020
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While reviewing the list of LAD pitchers, the Dodgers have 66 pitchers currently in their organization.  Per Fangraph’s Roster Resource the breakdown is as follows: MLB Starting Pitchers (5) MLB Relief Pitchers (9) MiLB Starting Pitchers (34) – 9 Rule 5 Eligible MiLB Relief Pitchers (18) – 13 Rule 5 Eligible With the pending MiLB contraction, those numbers are obviously going to decrease.  Many of these pitchers are organizational depth,…

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Ranking the Dodger Farm System Position Players

November 3, 2020
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This is really hard because we have nothing to go on insofar as for player development in 2020… and it is going to get worse! Next year, MLB is allegedly going to contract 40+ teams (if they stick to the plan).  If there are 30 players on a team (counting the IL), that is almost 1,200 players who will be out of jobs.  It’s sad, but it’s also a stark…

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Construction of A 40 Man Roster – Part One

November 2, 2020
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The Hot Stove League is always fun for us armchair GMs, allowing us to look at ways of improving a reigning World Series championship team.  Not just a WS championship team, but THE consensus choice of the best team in MLB for 2020.  But changes must be made.  Nothing can stay at the top by being stagnant.  Changes can come internally or externally.  AF is a master as to building…

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2021 and Beyond… the Dynasty Continues

October 29, 2020
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Dodger’s Offseason Plans The Dodgers won the World Series in 1988 and it only took thirty-two more years to win another Championship.  I guarantee the next ones (notice I did not say “one?”) will be much sooner. Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman got the proverbial monkey off their backs and both can now rightly take their respective places as “baseball icons.” I do want to say a few things about…

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It Could Be Over Tonight…

October 27, 2020
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It has been 32 years! In some ways that is a lifetime, but here we finally are: Ready to see if the Dodgers can clinch the 2020 World Series tonight. I would be remiss if I did not consider our Dodger brothers and sisters who are in the path of the wildfires and have had to evacuate or are facing evacuation. May the Big Dodger in the Sky be with…

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Kershaw Grinds LAD to Victory in Game 5

October 26, 2020
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What a difference a night makes.  After last night’s game I commented that the Dodgers need to come out swinging in the 1st against Glasnow.  Mookie Betts leads off with an 8 pitch double followed by a run-scoring Corey Seager single, two wild pitches and Seager gets to third.  JT strikes out, Muncy walks, Smith K’s and Belli comes up and gets an infield single to score Seager.  After a…

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GAME THREE RECAP AND SOME RANDOM PLAYOFF THOUGHTS:

October 24, 2020
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 Showdown between the Rays top pitcher, Charlie Morton (Joe Buck will tell you over and over again that he’s absolutely great!) and Walker Buehler.   As in most games, the Dodgers had several objectives:              1.         get off to a good start;             2.         run up Morton’s pitch count;             3.         Keep Buehler’s pitch count down;             4.         Keep the Rays off the bases; and             5.         Score more…

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The Role Player

October 23, 2020
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Just like every other fan, I have my favorites.  I believe I have been more than obvious that Corey Seager has been my favorite Dodger since he was drafted.  I also have jerseys for current Dodgers, Kershaw, Buehler, Bellinger, Turner, and Wood.  I love the stars, but I am also partial to those who are more role players and not top of the rotation pitchers.  The angst I feel with…

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Brandon Lowe, Blake Snell, and Rays Bullpen Even Series

October 22, 2020
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In 2017, George Springer was 0-6 with a walk and 4 strikeouts before getting a one out double off KJ in the 9th inning in Game 2.  A sleeping giant had awoken.  In 2020 postseason, the Rays best hitter, Brandon Lowe was in a miserable slump, but that ended when he took Tony Gonsolin deep in the first inning.  And he wasn’t done. Gonsolin gives up a walk to Margot…

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Doc: “THIS IS OUR YEAR. THIS IS OUR YEAR”

October 19, 2020
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For the third time in four years, the Los Angeles Dodgers are NL Pennant Winners and headed back to the World Series.  Will 2020 be different?  Like the Cubs in 2016 and the Nationals last year, I think the Dodgers are the team of destiny.  I am sure Tampa Bay Rays fans feel the same way, but I am a Dodgers fan so who cares what Rays fans think. Corey…

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