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Five Questions: Los Angeles Dodgers (2006) (Hardball Times)
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Dodger home record: 50-35 (.588)
When Jon attended: 9-5 (.643)
When Jon didn't: 41-30 (.577)
Dodgers at home: 795-635 (.556)
Jon attended: 302-238 (.559)*
Jon didn't: 498-404 (.552)
* includes road games attended
Current Roster with Estimated 2009 Salaries
(updated November 14)
Most figures are estimates (some are wild estimates) but will be updated as information comes in. Corrections welcome.
More contract details here.
Starting Pitchers (5)
$10,000,000 Hiroki Kuroda
*$475,000 Chad Billingsley
*$415,000 Clayton Kershaw
*$405,000 Eric Stults
*$400,000 James McDonald
*Total: $11,695,000
Bullpen (7)
*$2,500,000 Takashi Saito
*$1,300,000 Scott Proctor
*$1,500,000 Jonathan Broxton
*$425,000 Hong-Chih Kuo
*$420,000 Cory Wade
*$410,000 Ramon Troncoso
*$400,000 Scott Elbert
Total: $6,955,000
Also on 40-man roster
Mario Alvarez
Yhency Brazoban
Greg Miller
Justin Orenduff
Starting Lineup (8)
$17,100,000 Andruw Jones
*$3,000,000 Russell Martin
*$2,500,000 Andre Ethier
*$600,000 Matt Kemp
*$600,000 James Loney
*$500,000 Angel Berroa
*$410,000 Blake DeWitt
*$400,000 Tony Abreu
Total: $25,110,000
Bench (5)
$10,000,000 Juan Pierre
*$600,000 Jason Repko
*$410,000 Delwyn Young
*$400,000 Danny Ardoin
*$400,000 Chin-Lung Hu
Total: $11,810,000
Note: Team can buy out Ozuna's 2009 option for $200,000
Also on 40-man roster
A.J. Ellis
Lucas May
Xavier Paul
Disabled List
$12,000,000 Jason Schmidt
Also Paying ...
$2,000,000 Brad Penny (buyout of $9,000,000 option)
$50,000 Gary Bennett (buyout of $900,000 option)
Note: Kansas City is responsible for $500,000 buyout of Angel Berroa's $5,500,000 option for 2009.
Working total: *$68,020,000
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In honor of Andy LaRoche's 2008 Dodger debut (at first base tonight), here are some words to contemplate from Francois de La Rochefoucauld:
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world!
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady.
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment.
We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.
Not sure LaRochefoucauld's views on coquetry apply, but have at them …
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Dodgers at Padres, 7:05 p.m.
I wish he was little bit taller,
I wish he was a baller
I wish he had a girl who looked good
He would call her
I wish he had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
and a '64 Impala
Ferris Bueller was released on this date in 1986. I saw it an inordinate number of times in the theater that summer.
Thanks for that
I don't quite remember the words to that song.
Gerut, CF
E. Gonzalez, 2B
Giles, RF
A. Gonzalez, 1B
Kouzmanoff, 3B
McAnulty, LF
Greene, SS
Barrett, C
Wolf, P
Billingsley lifetime @ Petco:
2-0 1.80 ERA 30 K 8 BB 1.20 WHIP 25 innings
However, my BlackBerry's battery seems to have died and won't accept a recharge and local stores around here don't stock them.
Which seems downright weird.
The prices varied from $6 to $22 for the exact same product.
" "It's either (Ethier) or Juan, and Juan is too important for us at this time without Furcal at the top," Torre said."
In case there were any doubts about what Torre is thinking.
I guess we'd been reading tea leaves, and coming to the correct conclusion that Torre is no different from any bozo old school manager when it comes to understanding run production. Nonetheless, to have him say "hey, I'm unenlightened"! out loud is still a punch in the gut.
Ah well, I can still hold out hope that he IS somehow better than average at the psychological counseling side of player management. Can't I?
Meanwhile, since Furcal went down, Pierre: .262 .319 .292
I don't get it. It's one thing to overvalue a guy with speed who actually gets on base and gets to use it. But I don't see how even the oldest of olde-timey old-schoolers see Pierre as anything but a black hole.
I think he's a witch.
He runs fast, and always has a dirty shirt at the end of the game. But he never makes solid contact, takes horrible routes to fly balls, does not LOOK like a ballplayer. Which would fine if he produced a lot while looking bad, but we all know that's not the case.
I'm just amazed that any kind of fan or coach can watch this guy every day and like what they see. You don't have to merely overvalue stolen bases to like this guy - you pretty much have to think that SBs are the single most important aspect of the game. That and dirty uniforms.
Just calculate (H-2B-3B-HR).
Gurnick:
LaRoche played his last week of Triple-A at second base and he might get the start there in Thursday's day game vs. the Padres in place of Jeff Kent.
"I may take the chance," said manager Joe Torre, reversing his position one day earlier that LaRoche was not likely to start at second base.
Because there's so much to lose.
The Dodgers would later beat Maddux.
Check out the replay on Gameday.
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Berroa???
2 seamers hanging over the inner third of the plate, then outer third of the plate to the righties, then a curve hanging on the outer third of the plate for the lefty.