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Post by jrgreene6 on Feb 12, 2023 19:40:48 GMT
I REMEMBER Garv at third - he was terrible. Never thought he’d make a good 1B due to his height. Certainly proved me wrong there!
GO DODGERS!!!
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20DodgerMiracle24
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Post by 20DodgerMiracle24 on Feb 13, 2023 4:36:13 GMT
So, in other words, let’s try THIS for the five or six weeks in Glendale, and if it doesn’t work, we’ll change it up going into the regular season? This has disaster written all over it. What are they going to do if Muncy continues to bat .200? Vargas and Rojas have already been deemed “great D, meh bat”. And SS is Lux’ “natural” position? Dude has trouble covering and throwing from second base. How’s he going to handle more territory, deeper throws as well as being “captain” of the infield? Of course, DDF II continues to toy with the idea of an All Star OF wasted at 2B. Then - show me an arm and wheels that can replace him on the current roster. I’ll wait. This is the most disorganized we have seen this team in Daisy’s tenure. I’m interested and willing to see just how competitive they are. But to me it’s like going from a Bentley to a Yugo. Anyone seen any of those running and still on the road? GO DODGERS!!! 1973. Garvey was moved from third to first. Buckner from first to the outfield. Ferguson, Cey & Lopes hadn't proved themselves. The Dodgers won 95 games.  Plus, Manny Mota threw his glove away and became a pinch hitter deluxe. But sadly, it was Hal King who ruined that season for us. |
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 13, 2023 19:18:04 GMT
Dodgers Face Accusations of Cheating in New Book
Story by Jeff J. Snider • 39m ago
Evan Drellich of The Athletic has a new book coming out, and it includes anonymous, vague accusations of cheating against the Dodgers.
A new book, "Winning Fixes Everything" by Evan Drellich of The Athletic, comes out on Tuesday, but little bits and pieces have been released over the past few weeks. The latest nugget implicates the Dodgers as "the biggest cheaters" in baseball, and you'll never guess which sources went on the record with their accusations!
Just kidding, of course you'll guess it: No one went on the record. It's anonymous sources.
This isn't just an accusation of cheating. This is an accusation of collusion between the Dodgers and MLB — "They got caught by Major League Baseball and Major League Baseball did nothing." This sort of accusation doesn't even pass the smell test — what motivation would the league have to look the other way when LA cheated while punishing the Astros and Red Sox?
But wait, there's more!
This one takes the conspiracy one step further. Chase Utley (who wasn't on the roster for the 2018 postseason) worked with an MLB official to steal signs. And a "Red Sox source" knew about it because apparently they were so open about it they didn't even try to hide it.
Every time anyone has accused the Dodgers, either it's nebulous "they do the same stuff" accusations or specific accusations from people who don't understand the differences between legal sign-stealing or illegal sign-stealing. The first of these accusations falls right into that first category, no details, no one willing to go on the record, just "they is cheaterz!"
The second accusation feels like a Ralph Wiggum bit. "Chase Utley and an MLB official were in the closet stealing signs and Joc Pederson saw the signs and one of the signs looked at him!"
To be clear, the Astros had on-the-record accusers detailing exactly what happened, which was confirmed by video evidence and admissions from the guilty parties. The closest the Dodgers have come to being accused on the record was former big-leaguer Logan Morrison, who said, "I know from first hand accounts that the Yankees, Dodgers, Astros, and Red Sox all have used film to pick signs." Of course, what Morrison seems to not understand is that using film to decipher signs is legal; deciphering in real time (like the Red Sox did) is illegal, and using live video (rather than "film") to steal signs and pass them along in real time (like the Astros did) is illegal.
The problem with nebulous, anonymous accusations is they don't allow intelligent people to look into them. The fact that Logan Morrison doesn't know what's legal and what isn't doesn't make anyone a cheater, but at least he was willing to go on the record with his accusations so smarter people could look and say, "Oh, he just doesn't understand what's allowed and what isn't."
An anonymous source saying the Dodgers are "the biggest cheaters in the whole [expletive] industry" with no details is nothing. Mike Fiers put his name and details on his accusations, and multiple sources corroborated his accusations. That's how this process works.
Anything less is just an attempt to sell a book.
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 13, 2023 19:18:25 GMT
That's pretty pathetic.
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Post by truedodger on Feb 13, 2023 20:20:57 GMT
What happened to the highly touted Bobby Miller? There are still videos in this format about him, look it up What I'm saying is that there was big chatter about him being the next big thing up until last year but I haven't heard much about him so I'm wondering if he'll be on the big league club this year. |
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Post by truedodger on Feb 13, 2023 20:29:31 GMT
I still think there are a LOT of question marks with this team. We have a past prime .200 hitting third baseman, an unproven questionable range and arm SS and a likely rotating second baseman, including an all star right fielder.
Imagine how many DP’s are going to be missed without the consistency and timing it takes to make those plays?We let another .200 but outstanding defensive outfielder walk and will replace him with a dude that is in his second “tour” with a team that released him years ago. We have ONE proven starter and if they push to get more innings out of Eew, you can already see the IL writing on the wall. As much as I love and admire Kershaw, if the last few years have proven anything, he’ll probably have more than a couple of IL visits. May did not look even close to the dominating hurler he was prior to his surgery coming back late last season. Perhaps the winter will give him the additional recovery time he needs - but that’s a big “perhaps”. Syndegard might be the steal of the year if coaching can do for him what they did for Anderson and Weenie. But a fastball in the 90’s isn’t going to fool or get by too many major leaguers, unless they play Bellinger & the Cubs every game. Catman just got a nice little extension, but was last year a fluke? And he’s another of the five or six inning club. And we’re all too familiar with what shortened starts do to a bullpen, no matter how many aces we have there. I don’t see two rookies in our starting rotation or even by or after the All Star break. Let’s face it - we’ve got two stars in Mookie and Freddie and not much more. Not to mention the lunkhead puppet master and marionette. On the plus side? We’ve had the best team on paper for the better part of a decade and only one short season ring to show for it. Maybe a scrappy, hungry bunch is what this team needs. But I ain’t holding my breath. GO DODGERS!!! Idk. They're saying they're going to play Vargas who has been gettting innings at 3B in the minors because without the full shift in place Muncy has less range at 2B. Here they go again accomodating Muncy. I mean for $15 million is he that "special"? JT playing 3B was good defensively and so damn clutch with the bat and made $15- $20 million so... |
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Post by truedodger on Feb 13, 2023 20:35:51 GMT
So, in other words, let’s try THIS for the five or six weeks in Glendale, and if it doesn’t work, we’ll change it up going into the regular season? This has disaster written all over it. What are they going to do if Muncy continues to bat .200? Vargas and Rojas have already been deemed “great D, meh bat”. And SS is Lux’ “natural” position? Dude has trouble covering and throwing from second base. How’s he going to handle more territory, deeper throws as well as being “captain” of the infield? Of course, DDF II continues to toy with the idea of an All Star OF wasted at 2B. Then - show me an arm and wheels that can replace him on the current roster. I’ll wait. This is the most disorganized we have seen this team in Daisy’s tenure. I’m interested and willing to see just how competitive they are. But to me it’s like going from a Bentley to a Yugo. Anyone seen any of those running and still on the road? GO DODGERS!!! Agree though how good do they have to be to compete against the Mads. San Francisco and Colorado will be battling for last place in the division I believe. So maybe that's how management is looking at it. |
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Post by 20DodgerMiracle24 on Feb 14, 2023 3:14:58 GMT
I REMEMBER Garv at third - he was terrible. Never thought he’d make a good 1B due to his height. Certainly proved me wrong there! GO DODGERS!!! The Garv was such a great pinch hitter that Walt Alston wanted his bat in the lineup every day, so they put him at 1B, moved Bill Buckner to LF and now Manny Mota was the pinch hitter deluxe. Great dicision all around! |
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Post by Blunashun on Feb 15, 2023 1:57:15 GMT
Dodgers News: PECOTA Projects LA to Win Division in 2023
Story by Jeff J. Snider • 4h ago
Baseball Prospectus's projection system, PECOTA, has the Dodgers winning 97.4 games and winning the National League West for the 10th time in 11 years.
The Dodgers have won the National League West in nine of the last 10 seasons. The one year they didn't win the division, they won 106 games. It's been quite a run for Los Angeles, and while we'd prefer to have more than the one World Series title to show for it, the LA front office consistently puts together a team that has a real chance to win every year.
It's the same old story for 2023, as the Dodgers head into spring training among the favorites in the division. The Padres have had a very strong offseason, but according to the PECOTA projections from Baseball Prospectus, it hasn't been quite strong enough to overtake Los Angeles.
PECOTA stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, although that's a great example of a tortured acronym where they just found words to fit the initials of the word they wanted. Bill Pecota was a mediocre infielder for the Royals, Braves, and Mets from 1986-94, and baseball fans of a certain age love nothing more than naming mediocre infielders from the '80s and '90s.
But while PECOTA's name may be silly, its purpose is straightforward:
PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past performance and tries to project the most likely outcome for the following season. It looks at all of the numbers, and all the numbers that make up the numbers, to see which players are more likely to repeat their success and which ones benefited from good fortune.
And PECOTA is giving the Dodgers a little more respect than some of the other projection systems. Remember how FanGraphs' Steamer projections have Julio Urias with a 4.05 ERA this year? Well, PECOTA has his 1st-percentile ERA — meaning the worst-case scenario — at 3.77. His 50th-percentile ERA, or the most likely outcome, is 3.11. We can argue that even that's not good enough, but it's a heck of a lot better than the silly 4.05 Steamer threw out there.
Projections are always conservative, and this is no different. Julio will probably be better than his projection. Freddie Freeman's 50th-percentile OPS is .845; he hasn't been that low in eight years. The list goes on and on. But that's actually really good news, because even with those conservative projections, PECOTA has Los Angeles winning 97.4 games, the second-highest projected win total in MLB behind the Yankees' 99.3.
If you wrote off the Dodgers because of their quiet winter, this is your reminder that they still have a really, really good team.
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