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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
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Mario Alvarez
Yhency Brazoban
Greg Miller
Justin Orenduff
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$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
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$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
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A.J. Ellis
Lucas May
Xavier Paul
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$12,000,000 Jason Schmidt
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$2,000,000 Brad Penny (buyout of $9,000,000 option)
$50,000 Gary Bennett (buyout of $900,000 option)
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Working total: *$68,020,000
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Every year it seems, I'm dead wrong about someone. Rudy Seanez, Takashi Saito ... the list goes back as far as Dodger Thoughts. This year, it's Chan Ho Park. Don't know what will happen from here on out, but you've got to hand it to him - he's been simply superb so far (2.52 ERA). And he's starting to do it with authority. In two starts, June 21 and tonight, Park has gone 11 innings and allowed one run on seven hits and two walks while striking out 16.
Dodger pitchers struck out 14 tonight, including the final six (by Jonathan Broxton and Takashi Saito).
Either way, hopefully he can keep it up.
BTW, when did Brian the Falken Cyborg start throwing 96mph gas?....HUH?!?!?
It is so gratifying to see a man come back and perform at the highest level when just about everyone has counted him out. Chan Ho!
Chan Ho Park has one of the best winning % at Dodger Stadium in HISTORY That kind of jumps out at you, when Vinnie mentioned it. I can't wait till tomorrow at 9am to watch the recap of the '88 series.
Park was great, Falkenborg looks FAR better than Proctor, Broxton was an absolute beast (even hit 100 MPH), and Saito looked like his old self.
Vin mentioned it a number of times in the broadcast. Mentioned earlier, but have always wondered if CHP had been able to stay with the Dodgers and accept, don't remember the number a fairly healthy contract, how good he would have been. Great thing about tonight's performance was his velocity, TV gun was showing 96 on a number of pitches-great control...If Park and Stultz can continue this way, a trade I would try at the deadline would be to offer Lowe back to the Sox or to the Yanks for some good prospects or 1 good pinch hitter and 1 mid-level power prospect.
Riiight!
There's 36 million reasons that he'll be back out there.
It's ok, just put Kemp in left and Ethier in right:)
I was at that game I think... if the hit went thru the middle of Short & 3rd (LF) then that's the game I was at.
Lasorda use to use him a lot from what I remember.
The game was against San Francisco.
Speaking of pitchers pinch hitting, it was kid of weird how Vin barely acknowledged the strange event of Stults pinch hitting when there were position players still left on the bench. I thought it was cool that Torre did that; too bad he struck out.
2 - I hadn't forgotten that start. I was noting that with the most recent two starts, he was dominating.
One thing we do learn from the stories is that Dylan Hernandez doesn't know the definition of suicide squeeze.
In Diamond Leung's blog he says the bunt was La Roche's call.
I only have the MLB package not Fox, what did Ned say of note?
Nomar return = Sweeney DFA
Furcal return = Maza optioned
A DFA is necessary to activate Nomar.
I was also a non-believer, and didn't see the game tonight, but I'm not sure Chan-Ho has been throwing mid(upper?)-90's the last few years.... so maybe it's real. Amazing command with the curveball also lately.
My hunch is that its probably Sweeney, though you could see DeWitt or LaRoche being sent back too unless you plan to carry 3 thirdbaseman.
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Torre spent pre-game going over one play the previous day when James Loney made a diving stop at first base to record an out, but didn't need to do so since a shift was on and three infielders were overloaded on the right side of the infield.
"It's James," Torre sighed.
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That's been Loney's main defensive problem all year -- ranging too far to his right on balls he should let the second baseman get, leaving nobody to cover first. But I guess he learned his lesson because the exact situation came up tonight (on Kent's diving play) and Loney ran straight to the bag. Ordinarily he would have gone after that ball, which would have resulted in the play getting screwed up.
In 1994, when I was in 9th grade and I was beginning my JV baseball career, that's when Chan Ho began his career with the Dodgers. And since then, I've been following his career pretty closely.
Since he's probably eating Korean food every day, he's probably added a good 2-3 mph on his fastball. Good for you, Chan Ho....
Good show.
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I took some pictures of Tiger Stadium. It's still there, just rusting away. Along with old Boston Garden, it's one of the two venues I wish I could've seen a game at before it closed. I'm told that it's finally going to be demolished later this year, which is a shame. It would've been nice if they had kept the stadium operating for exhibitions and things like that.
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