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$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
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*$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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Yhency Brazoban
Greg Miller
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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
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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
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Use your changeup, Clayton.
Maybe little Nicky C. can buy Kershaw a car or something out of his own pocket in the off season just to show some love.
Maybe they're just thinking of the psychological impact of starting the game off with a strikeout (setting the tone, whatever that means).
Next stop on the checklist is a trade:(
If you want me to leave that badly, just ask.
It seems to me the biggest points about batting lineups are
1/ hitters at the top of lineup get more at bats over the course of a season, so ideally your better OBP or just plain better hitters should bat in the top three spots.
2/ if a guys got speed and a high % success rate on sbs, he's best at batting leadoff given the fact that the bases are likely clear(8th and pitcher spots or 1st inning.)
Follow him with a guy that sees alot of pitches to give more opportunities to steal on the first few pitches.
3/ follow both with your hottest hitter, who's sure to get more at bats than most...since he's near the top of the lineup. Since he's following the two better hitters, he's more likely to have runners on.
Am I far off?
I like Kemp, Martin, Loney for now...
Get me Alex Cora for all I care but get me a SS.
http://www.truebluela.com/2008/6/22/556587/food-for-thought
I had exchanged e-mails with Jules numerous times and he was always happy to answer any questions I had about his book. And how to pronounce his last name when I mentioned him in a talk at the library. (TIE-gehl)
Crazy Legs Loney is on a pace to smash the triples record for a 1st baseman of 35 by Garvey. He already has 13 in only 819 at bats. Garvey got his 35 in 7027 plate appearances.
What more could you want from a lead off man? Plus it would keep him from breaking the 4-5-3 record.
Just saw replay of Martin's dinger at least, that was nice to see. I seem to miss what little offense the Dodgers' muster these days so I think I'll go back to work for awhile when they next come up to bat.
Yup
I just estimated a regression model that used Team Runs Per Game as the dependent variable and Team Lineup Position OPS (for #1, #2, #3, etc.) as independent variables.
The findings:
Lineup position #s 1, 4, 5, 7, and 9 have a significant correlation with Runs Per Game.
Lineup position #s 2, 3, 6, and 8 have no significant correlation (and the correlation is actually negative).
The lineup positions with the strongest impact on Runs Per Game (from strongest to weakest):
9
1
5
7
4
In other words, Runs Per Game do not appear to depend upon the OPS of the #2, 3, 6, and 8 hitters, and depend most strongly upon the OPS of the 9 and 1 hitters.
First inning of the Jacksonville game.
Lee Mitchell pops into a triple play, shortstop Ivan De Jesus to second baseman Shane Justis. Chris Coghlan out at 2nd. Gaby Sanchez out at 1st.
Sounds like some team is unfamiliar with the intricacies of the infield fly rule.
That doesn't make sense. So if we have Angel Berroa batting 6th and then Furcal comes back and we put him in the 6 spot not changing the personnel anywhere else, we'd score more runs? How could upgrading the offense at a spot in the lineup hurt?
I hope Quintero got no worse than his bell rung. Ouch.
Well, like I said, the correlation for those spots isn't significant. The fact that it's negative really doesn't mean anything, though I thought it was interesting anyway.
The Dodgers have focused their efforts making bids on seven Dominican players in advance of tomorrow's start of the international signing players when 16-year-olds who turn 17 after Sept. 6 may sign with major league clubs.
But don't expect the Dodgers to be throwing around seven-figure bonuses like the A's reportedly did in giving Michel Inoa $4.25 million. Assistant general manager Logan White said the team has not changed its philosophy of not getting into bidding wars on players they have attached a dollar amount to in value. "We can't shoot ourselves in the foot by overbidding," White said. "We're active. We're just not active on the high-dollar guys. We just don't like them as high-dollar as other teams do."
To bad they had to renounce Corey to make it happen because now they can't do a sign and trade with him but I'll take a lineup of
Baron, Cutino, Thornton, Brand, Kaman.
He'd be a Fish called Wandy.
Here's a belated..."why!?"
Martin and Kent have been on base all 6 times they've been up. martin's first time was very briefly on base(s).