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Filler Time
2003-07-24 09:54
Ah, the sweet wretched refuse ... As of today, no hitter on the Dodger bench started the season with the team. If I made one accurate prediction this year, it was that the amount of time and energy people spent discussing who would make the back end of the Dodger roster would be time and energy wasted on players who would have next-to-no impact. Nonetheless, on March 14, I took a mid-March look at who would make the Dodgers 25-man roster. At the time, Rodney Myers was ranked 41st on my list out of 41 players. My comment on the guy above him, Calvin Maduro, was, "Filler for Las Vegas." Myers merited only a "Ditto." Well, Maduro ended up becoming a Newark Bears teammate of Rickey Henderson, but Myers is now here, following Larry Barnes, David Ross, Steve Colyer, Chin-Feng Chen, Chad Hermansen, Wilkin Ruan, Alfredo Gonzalez and Victor Alvarez as players who answered affirmatively to my question, "See You Midseason?" (For what it's worth, however, I ranked Tom Martin below all those guys. Who'd have thought he'd be the most impactfulescent of them all?) Now, we're just waiting for Koyie Hill, Lindsay Gulin and Chris Clapinski. Not to mention spring hitting sensation Calvin Murray. What of Quilvio Veras, you might ask? His last recorded statistics are with Estrellas, a Dominican Winter League Team. His stats on Baseball America indicate they were updated May 8, but I don't think that date reflects the league actually playing at that time. So after nearly making the Dodgers, Veras may have just quietly called it quits.
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