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I wouldnt mind for 2009 season.

1b- Teixeira (age 29)
2b- Russ Martin (age 26)
SS- Ivan DeJesus (age 22)
3b- Andy LaRoche (age 25)

Put Lucas May or Santana at catcher. They'll struggle for 2009, but imagine how good the Dodgers should be in 2010.

LAT too.

With Diamond's announcement, the Dodgers can still activate both Nomar and Jones without having to DFA anyone by just putting Furcal on the 60-Day DL.

Now in terms of who goes tomorrow (or probably today after the game),

A. Jason Repko (nice 4-day visit to Texas)
B. Angel Berroa (don't know his status, he was playing in the minors for KC so he might just get optioned)
C. DeWitt/LaRoche.

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Is there any reason to believe that Martin can handle playing 2nd base in the majors, any at all?

Welcome back Andruw Jones. Please do not suck.

Like it or not, Hu is unavailable right now. The choices are Garciaparra, Maza, Berroa and DeJesus.

Except that he's out of options. He's been DFA'd before by KC.

Its true, Nomar is not going to have the range to take hits away but how often do those plays happen.

Also, if Hu recovers from his eye injury in the next few weeks, he may be up by the end of July.

If Nomar can throw up a 700 OPS (as he did last year) I think that makes up for the defensive deficiencies.

See? I've been saying this for years now. Being on this site is like being an unpaid GM.

Nomar return = Sweeney's Dodger career over

I actually like the idea of Nomar at SS. Better than the soul-suck that is Angel Berroa. Platoon him with Maza, who seems to have enough juice to be a valuable UT.

Sweeney's not going anywhere until they pry him from Ned's cold, dead hands.

On a related note, how long until Sweeney is eligible for his MLB pension...?

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vr, Xei

I don't really thinks it a bad move, Kershaw will get a couple of starts before the ASB and who knows, if Penny can't make it back, maybe he'll be up right after that.

7 I somehow don't think that Derek Lowe will be "strangely excited" to find that the middle IF behind him is Nomar/Kent.

With Furcal's injury, I think Sweeney is saved from any sort of roster-crunch motivated release. Now it would simply be a matter of performance, and LA looking to upgrade at his position.

Derek Lowe, welcome to PVL-HELL! You asked for it, you got it.

His ex-wife made a deal with Satan to make this happen.

So, what was the deal with Tomko?

I had heard about these vision problems, but I was unaware they were lingering such that he can't play.

BTW, one thing that probably has not escaped the Dodgers attention is that Delwyn Young has adapted well to being a PH, he's 10 for 31 (.323) which is 3rd in the NL for PH with 25 or more PA.

That ability will keep Young on this club for a while.

:)

I hope we are able to enjoy DeWitt hitting well these days.

2 year offer take it or leave it.

The WBC tried to get Dan Haren to play for the Netherlands. Despite the fact that Dan Haren is not Dutch. At all. He didn't play for the Dutch.

Mike Piazza played for Italy in the WBC.

And the nationalities of Alex Rodriguez and Albert Pujols are whatever they want them to be at the time.

I once flew out to my brother's house in Michigan and Kaman were on the same two legs of the flight to Gerald R. Ford International Airport.

Chris Kaman is a very large human being.

Maza's range factor, though, is somehow 5.93 in 82 innings.

Edit: Ethier! nice HR!

I liked hearing that. Looks like Andre found his stroke.

77 - Knock on wood.

78 - They saw Chad pitch well against them last year.

I demand the return of the word to everyday language!

Wear that ball for heaven's sake.

http://www.billjamesonline.net/fieldingbible/summary.asp

that the whole system is based on subjective calls of ability. That is, +/- is no better than figure skating, gymnastics -- or fielding percentage.

It helps that Pierre is no longer leading off or in the lineup.

The biggest knock against defensive stats is that they can't replace watching a guy play. This system involves watching every single play and comparing that against every other player in baseball. This is why i use +/-.

It's not subjective. It's objective. The "credit" is based on a quantitative value. I think the last sentence in the above quote - "looked at" - you're taking as subjective when it's intended as objective.

This is still a matter of subjective opinion, though. It's not at all clear to me based on their description that this takes into consideration positioning.

Where is there evidence that this is in fact objective, though? Maybe they're trying to do that but IMO it's misleading if so. On the other hand, this is only the nutshell version, and I understand Dewan's book goes into much greater detail.