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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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vr, Xei
Izturis, who seems like he hasn't played in two months, is safely in 2nd.
3B was a combo of injuries and ineffectiveness.
C saw Phillips replaced by Navarro.
Only 1B was a result primarily of mixing and matching.
Dodger AB leaders:
522 Kent - .897 OPS
444 Izturis - .624
387 Phillips - .655
322 Robles - .701
308 Werth - .743
Lots of wasted AB's there.
There were four last year in Weaver, Perez, Ishii, and Lima.
Next team on the chopping block, the Reds. If they lose to the Cardinals tonight and the Astros win, it will be over.
The Dodgers and Dbacks are eliminated from the wild care race and the Giants could be tonight as well if they lose and Houston wins.
In my lifetime, the prototype of the season that was ripped away at the end is 82 (maybe 91 also). The prototype of the plain, simple bad team is 92. I probably got a lot of enjoyment out of the 82 season while it was actually going on, but the pain still lingers. I hate 82 (and 91). 92 actually seems kind of fun to me now, although I don't think I'll recall 05 all that fondly.
In my lifetime the worst was 62-In those years of light hitting,great pitching years,62 was an anamoly.Tommy Davis drove in 153 runs,hit .340 and won the batting title,Maury Wills stole 104 bases.Frank Howard,Willie Davis and others had good years.The Dodgers blew a huge lead in August and lost the season on a bases loaded walk by Stan Williams in the third game of a best of three tiebreaker with the Giants.That was tough to swallow.
The only consolation was the Yankees beat the Giants in the World series when Bobby Richardson robbed Willie McCovey of a game and series winning hit.
The emergence of Cleveland is validation for rebuilding the right way through developing young talent.
I agree with you about Cleveland by the way. I am hoping that DePo/McCourt will go with the kids and let them develop. I would like to see another homegrown group to rival the 60's Dodgers and the Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey 70's team. Writing out big checks a la the Yankees and Red Soxs and building a team that way does not interest me at all.
I think from most of the comments here I am in the minority, but if the Dodgers go out and get players becuase they can afford them, it will result in me losing interest in the franchise. I am not much of a basketball fan but I can tell you that the Kobe/Shaq Lakers held no appeal for me.
Stan from Tacoma
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