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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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Kemp RF
Ethier LF
Martin C
Kent 2B
Loney 1B
Jones CF
Garciaparra SS
DeWitt 3B
Billingsley P
G. Blanco lf
Y. Escobar ss
C. Jones 3b
M. Teixeira 1b
B. McCann c
J. Francoeur rf
K. Johnson 2b
M. Kotsay cf
J. Jurrjens p
"We just got done doing a live web chat with Matt Kemp and throughout Delwyn Young was chiming in. Hopefully some of you got the chance to join in... there were more than 1,000 questions, which might be an all-time high. Pretty cool. If you missed it, the transcript will be up on the site soon."
The chat transcript is up:
http://tinyurl.com/6bs993
Is the guy calling the game giving you the pitch speed or are you trying to determine the speed through a Doppler shift sort of thing?
Jair is wearing the cap w/ the red bill.
rmlvr55: Hey Matt, Do you have any pre-game rituals? And keep up the great work your an amazing outfielder :)
Kemp: Me and Jeff Kent get together and listen to Lil' Wayne to get pumped up!
Even the Cubs and Red Sox?
No, he gives out the pitch speed every so often.
Someone had complained that there wasn't enough physics on Dodger Thoughts.
So there, we've met the minimum requirement.
Kemp: I'm a beast! Seriously though, what do you think of it??
The Atlanta papers are full of speculation about where Texeira will go.
It worked!
So Andruw will take that hit!
36 Yes.
Either you're kidding or you haven't been paying attention to one person's comments all year.
And I don't mean me.
But I know thee not because you are not a true believer in the one true Sudakis.
Wherever a perfect game is being thrown, he will be there to extinguish the flame of hope.
And I did look up Sudakis later; interesting player, it appears. I was still in diapers when he was at the peak of his career.
Maybe they can get Jar-Jar out of there faster than you can say "Phantom Menace."
He's sitting at .590 after that homerun.
I'm humming the riff from Black Magic Woman right now for you. Too bad you can't hear this far.
Don't turn your back on me!
A lot of hitters have done what Santana is doing in the Cal League, but not many have done it with a k/bb ratio of less than 1 and average in age for the league.
Dewitt played in the Cal League last year...Just sayin'...
Yeah, but does he know how to play the game? Does he do what he is told?
I don't know what you mean by that....you have me excited about Santana.
Sorry for the humming.
take out the extra "an".
What I mean is that the average age for the Cal League is 22-23 years old. Santana is 22 years old so this is not an older player beating up on younger pitching.
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Man, Russell's having some issues throwing to 2nd as of late.
Dewitt played the first half in the Cal League going 298/336/466 8hr in 339 ABs. Then they promoted him and he played the second half in the southern league.
So what should we call him in order to pretend he doesn't exist? "Black Magic?"
http://www.montereyherald.com/state/ci_9821977
Ethier was running on it. Frenchie has a gun.
If I were them I'd skip the thoughts of Barry Bonds and go for Kenny Lofton, who is still available, is always pretty solid, and unlike Bonds at least can field. But on the other hand I want the DBacks to fail, so I'm not sure why I'm giving them advice.
It's amazing what little attention he receives.
I can't figure out why.
97 D'backs made offer to Bonds?
I'm a HUGE Russel fan & would call you out on it IF it wasn't true but I agree, this is the first time I've ever seen him look that TIRED.
Torre needs to give Russell a few days off, he won't though, one thing I've noticed about Torre is that he is not an observing manager.
I bet he feels out of place too, what with being out of baseball for the first time in what 17 18 years?
Because his thighs are as big as elephant trunks.
I got scared & sat back down.
8ks but he got in trouble with the walks again. Arghhh.
Dewitt! on fire!