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Dodger home record: 39-30 (.565)
When Jon attended: 5-3 (.625)
When Jon didn't: 34-27 (.557)
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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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Schoolteacher Ken Aven invites you to check out his first novel, Chavez Ravine Echoes. Here's the description:
Hidden beneath the vast acreage of Dodger Stadium's parking lot is an almost forgotten Mexican/American community that once thrived in the area known as Chavez Ravine. A journey to uncover the culture and vibrancy of the displaced community is embarked upon after a late night serendipitous meeting between Dodger third baseman, Joe Shapiro, and Dodger marketing assistant, Liz Reyes. Using diary pages from a young 1950s Chavez Ravine inhabitant to guide them, Shapiro and Reyes's fictionalized voyage of discovery will bring to life the fascinating truths of Chavez Ravine and the forces that conspired to destroy the community.
2 - Way to take the harshest reading possible from the author's bio. I tend to doubt that this guy has a lifelong passion for advocating lynching.
hahaha.
So what is Colletti on trades thus far?
1-3?
Bradley for Ethier. Base Hit
Sanchez for Seo. Swing and a miss
Jackson/Tiffany for Baez/Carter. Swing and a miss
Could Hendrickson or Weaver be strike 3?
There's a topic for the next off-day; mystery novels with baseball at least peripherally attached.
http://tinyurl.com/r6xsc
No reviews yet; be the first one!
Anyways, Ned needs to pick up Weaver. He's an average pitcher and on this team, he'd be our 3rd best starter.
I have decided that "no-no" is allowed.
Maybe Edwin has finally found his niche as a reliever. If he can improve his control, he could be a pretty good closer.
Oh, he's still batting ahead of Martin. Never mind.
Furry
Lofty
Garcy
Drewy
Kenty
Ethy
Matty
Izzy
Marty
26 - It doesn't annoy me, but I wrote a post about it early this month talking about Mueller 2006 has turned out about the same as Valentin 2005, while Valentin 2006 is what both GMs intended all along.
I have a Guzman+ Ruggiano deal on the table.
I offered Guzman and Abreu for Cliff Lee but I haven't heard back yet.
LHP SP 2nd round 2003 draft. 23 yrs old. fb 91-95 with a plus slider. having a great year in AAA today.
Jeff Kent, Nomar, JD Drew, Hank Blalock, Mark Teixeira, Barry Bonds, Scott Rolen, Bobby Abreu, Todd Helton, Chipper Jones, Jim Edmonds, Geoff Jenkins, and even Kenny Lofton
Mitzelplick
This deal is most likely going down unless someone can give me a reasonable reason why not too in the next hour.
What org is he with?
Depends on how much you like Gorzy.
his numbers this year in the international league
2.35era 99.2IP 67H 4hr 27bb 94k
Gorzelanny starts tomorrow for Pitt. I told the pitt GM that I'm going to have my big league scouts (you guys) take a look at him before I pull the trigger.
scouts pay for their own traveling expenses. Come, Frank is our owner.
They don't call him "McCheap" and "McBankrupt" for nothing...
Must say that my Red Sox affinity may take over again soon (have that rocky New England soil in my blood) if things don't pick up around here. This team ain't goin' nowhere as is.
That's what I've been saying for two years.
I agree. Stupid is more appropriate than cheap.
Does Hendrickson suck? Probably. Does he have an awesome beard? Absolutely.
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Hurts.
"Jim is very smart," Kasten said last night at RFK Stadium. "By smart, I mean analytical. I love that. I also think he's very resourceful. . . . And right now, as we're building this -- needing to speed the process up as quickly as we can, needing to shave any unnecessary steps -- I need someone resourceful. I think Jim is really good at that."
Amazing. Just amazing.
http://6-4-2.blogspot.com/2005/05/fishslapped-by-grabowski-principle.html
is that the same tune the dueling banjos izzy and furcal play?
But lots of teams notionally try and build this way, and for many it just doesn't work. And starting where the Nationals are starting is a far cry from Florida trading a slew of All Stars for premium prospects.
Could be long and ugly here in DC if you ask me.
Yea but it was off the plate and was called a ball.
I don't follow the Angels that closely.
Say hello to your newest Dodger fellas.
This guy won the Cy Young recently, didn't he?
Sounds like he should be pitching in a random game callback.
He cares not for the woes of Weaver nor the cares of Colon.
Bartolo for Odalis?
An exchange of FTOGs?
have you seen Colon's contract?
04:$9M, 05:$8M, 06:$12M, 07:$14M
How many bowls of Total does it take to match the fiber in one bowl of Super Colon Bowl?
I'd rather release Odalis than have to watch Fartolo pitch for the Dodgers.
isn't it safe to say, that as much times the hitter gets lucky, he is unlucky.
In St. Louis, Elmer intentionally loads the bases then gives way to Ambiorix Burgos v. pinch hitter Scott Spezio, one out.
Then how does he know if they are ever right?
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