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Less Dodgers, More L.A.
Dodger home record: 22-20 (.524)
When Jon attended: 3-2 (.600)
When Jon didn't: 19-18 (.514)
Dodgers at home: 745-600 (.554)
Jon attended: 293-233 (.557)*
Jon didn't: 457-374 (.550)
* includes road games attended
Current Roster with Estimated 2008 Salaries
(updated March 28)
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)
$12,300,000 Hiroki Kuroda
$10,000,000 Derek Lowe
$9,500,000 Brad Penny
$7,000,000 Esteban Loaiza
*$500,000 Chad Billingsley
Total: $39,300,000
Bullpen (6)
$2,000,000 Takashi Saito
$1,925,000 Joe Beimel
$1,125,000 Scott Proctor
*$500,000 Jonathan Broxton
$500,000 Chan Ho Park
*$400,000 Hong-Chih Kuo
Total: $6,450,000
Starting Lineup (8)
$14,100,000 Andruw Jones
$13,000,000 Rafael Furcal
$9,000,000 Jeff Kent
$8,500,000 Nomar Garciaparra
$8,000,000 Juan Pierre
$500,000 Russell Martin
*$400,000 James Loney
*$400,000 Matt Kemp
Total: $53,900,000
Bench (6)
$875,000 Gary Bennett
$600,000 Mark Sweeney
$424,500 Andre Ethier
$391,000 Delwyn Young
$390,000 Chin-Lung Hu
$390,000 Blake DeWitt
Total: $3,071,000
Disabled List
$12,000,000 Jason Schmidt
*$400,000 Tony Abreu
*$390,000 Andy LaRoche
Total: $12,790,000
Also Paying ...
$1,000,000 Brett Tomko
$750,000 Odalis Perez
$540,000 Yhency Brazoban
$500,000 Randy Wolf
$487,500 Jason Repko
$135,225 Rudy Seanez
$100,000 Mike Lieberthal
$50,000 Ramon Martinez
Total: $3,562,725
Working total: *$113,268,725
*Rough salary estimate
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Violets are blue.
Sorry Erickson,
The Bull smells better than you
(phew)
Broxton Navarro called up
Do we trade Phillips?
Can anyone explain the reasoning behind putting Phillips at first base?
Broxton was impressive,throw out the two bloops and he was pretty overpowering.
I wonder who else we'll see this year.I'd guess we'll see Osiria again,maybe Delwyn Young in September.I'd like to see Loney also so the doubting Thomases can see his glove work and that sweeet line drive bat.
Really did okay
Let's just hope
He stays away from Hometown Buffet
Times change. Remember when Al Campanis (stupidly) unloaded Sid Fernandez to the Mets because he thought El Sid was too big?
Most impressive thing was Broxton's off speed. Even Eckstein can make contact with a 95+ fastball, but the curve is the difference maker.
I guess weight is relative.Claire got rid of Pedro because he was too frail.Lets hope Depo doesn't think Kuo is too small to throw gas.
Unfortunately Dioneer doesn't have any major league catcing experience. But if this weren't the case, I don't think Phillips is unmovable because of his offence.
The next gigantic reliever we see come up from our farm -- though who knows how long it will be -- may be Jose Diaz, who is called "Jumbo" Diaz within the Dodger organization. Same height as Broxton, but heavier. A couple years ago, when Diaz was in Rookie ball, a fan at a game overheard a Dodger trainer get big laughs out of the bullpen pitchers with the remark that he had a dream that the Dodgers fired him for letting Jumbo get too fat. Jumbo's fastball was clocked as high as 100 MPH last year. He had 74 K's in 45 IP between low and high A, but needed Tommy John surgery before the 2004 season was done. He just returned to action a while ago, and has 7 K's and no hits or walks in 3 IP in high A. His fastball has been clocked as high as 99 MPH recently.
David Wells has pitched into his 40's with that type of body, Sid Fernandez was successful for years, while someone like Joey Hamilton always had to fight it.
There was a fine pitcher named Scott
But talent he's no longer got
He went D F A
Now the Dodgers, I'd say
Are due to start winning a lot
Next?
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