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David Pinto of Baseball Musings began releasing his year-end defensive ratings, which are not definitive but are among the best you can find. He started with team defense, and found the Dodgers' to be 25th in baseball.
Roughly translated, the difference between the Dodgers and the No. 1 team, Toronto, amounts to giving away about an extra out every other game.
Blue Jays: 2994 actual outs, 2915 expected outs, +79
Dodgers: 3084 actual outs, 3100 expected outs, -16
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As we speak, it would cost the Dodgers $14.5 million "plus accrued interest and premiums" to buy out the bonds that would allow the team to pull out of its Dodgertown lease, TCPalm.com reports.
"Or, if the stadium is worth more at fair market value than the bonds, the team could buy back the stadium," the report adds. "The county would get the difference between the bonds and the purchase price."
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Takashi Saito vs. National League Cy Young Award runner-up Trevor Hoffman, courtesy of Andrew Grant at True Blue L.A.:
Trevor Hoffman, second in Cy Young voting: 0-2, 2.14 ERA, 63 IP, 50 K (7.14 K/9), 13 BB (1.86 BB/9), 6 HR (.85 HR/9), 46 saves.
Takashi Saito, reciever of one third place vote: 6-2, 2.07 ERA, 78.3 IP, 107 K (12.29 K/9), 23 BB (2.64 BB/9), 3 HR (.34 HR/9), 24 saves.
It's the Ecksteinization of America!
In JD Drew's America, everybody tries to avoid getting hurt. The world is not as exciting.
In Toby Hall's America, everybody whines.
Where did you hear about Beimel?
Nevermind found it in LA Times.
doesnt toronto have a higher homerun park factor then DS? that didnt really hurt speiers performance.
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toronto had the 4th highest homerun park factor in the majors compared to 7th for the dodgers.
so it wouldnt be like going from RFK to DS. it wouldnt affect him significantly.
Is Mike Mussina a future Hall of Famer?
I think he'll get in eve he doesnt get to 300 wins.
He recently re-negotiated with the Yanks at 2/22. He has 239 career Wins.
I'm going to say yes, but not on the 1st ballot.
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Namar's OPS leads Loney's by not much (038), but the difference in money will be enormous.
did anyone watch Toronto actually play defense this yr???
There middle infield was the worst in baseball and openly cost them games.
Hence why they're on the market for a 2b and ss right now.
and glaus at 3b was awful
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Here's what I gleaned from the interview (from his answers and reading between the lines).
1. Nomar will be resigned (or at least they will make a very strong attempt).
2. He thinks Kemp needs at least 1/2 season at AAA.
3. Because of his defense (and what his defense may be at the end of the longterm deal he'll require) Carlos Lee will not be signed.
4. They will be a serious player for Soriano and Colletti guesses Soriano will be signed by some team before December 4th to a huge deal in numbers and length.
5. As opposed to last year, he is much more willing to dole out two long term deals this offseason (bat and front line starter) to help "bridge the gap to the young players."
6. If Dodgers lose out on Soriano and they can acquire a pitcher he will look to trade one young pitcher to get a good power bad in the lineup, not a great one.
7. He does not want to trade more than one young player (blue-chipper) this offseason as he remains committed to their young players.
8. After talking to Boras, he doesn't feel Maddux will be resigned but he hopes that will change (i.e. that there won't be a market for him for two years and the Dodgers will sign him for one).
9. Zito is top choice FA pitcher, followed by Schmidt ("but only for the right deal"). Sounded like he's really high on Zito.
10. Lofton is a wait and see what develops and he still wants to see what they have in Betemit.
11. They were a player for Matsuzaka but Colletti wryly said his dollar amount fell a little short of Boston's.
All in all it was one of the most enlightening radio interviews I've heard. He was very forthcoming and again, really, really funny.
Also, Plaschke says Beimel's ERA against left-handed hitters was 2.34. How is an ERA against left-handed hitter (or right-handed hitter, for that matter) figured?
Beimel isn't even a J.D. Drew sized villain. He's not a whoever that teenage ice-skater was who Didn't Want to Be There, sized villian. But Plaschkers needed a column today, so, any port in a storm.
If Paps is moved to the rotation and Baez takes over as closer, the Rays have a legit shot at finishing 3rd(if all goes well).
If only the Rays could get some MLB-ready pitching from trading Dukes & Cantu.
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