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$500,000 Russell Martin
*$400,000 James Loney
*$400,000 Matt Kemp
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$600,000 Mark Sweeney
$424,500 Andre Ethier
$391,000 Delwyn Young
$390,000 Chin-Lung Hu
$390,000 Blake DeWitt
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*$400,000 Tony Abreu
*$390,000 Andy LaRoche
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$750,000 Odalis Perez
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$500,000 Randy Wolf
$487,500 Jason Repko
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Please stop comparing Chad to Matt Herges.
Thanks,
everyone
I filled my quota for the year.
with the camera pointing out the wedgie in it's full glory, another nice inning by Billz, stupid Kent though.
12-8 Pads.
It's unfortunate, because we need to win this game, but the Karma feels like we won't do anything right today. It may take an individual effort to turn it around.
We're tide with the Marlins for most in the NL with 85, that's pretty darn bad.
Billz is pitching very good I think we have a pretty good chance today.
Hu and LaRoche both started in Vegas, first inning, both singled, LaRoche drove in a run.
James McDonald has struck out 11, walked 2, given 3 hits, one of them a solo home run and he is trailing 1-0 through 6 1/2 innings. McDonald has now 24 strike outs in 22 innings in AA.
you mean 27Ks.
they also have this left hander Franklin Morales who is suppose to be pretty good. He's down in AA though.
McDonald has done what you would hope a good pitching prospect would do in the Southern League so I would have to think that he would now be perhaps just under Kershaw and Elbert in starting pitching prospects for the Dodgers.
31 Morales is touted, but not at the level Jimenez was. Honestly, Tsao was the biggest prospect I can remember. (once again- I'm speaking from not an analysis perspective). Jimenez was supposed to be the savior.
Maybe Russell could teach that pitch to Tomko.
Matt Holliday is pretty good.
You could not tell she was that young?
Run, Russell!
I'll give you the fact that she has a deep voice.
"The Naturalist."
I have this terrible, disturbing vision of Robert Redford triumphantly rounding the bases. Nude.
McDonald has a chance for a win as Suns score 3 in the top of 8th, 3-1 Suns.
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Dumb.
Just plain dumb.
doesnt work the count.
doesnt let furcal try to steal 2nd.
yes. dumb.
{71] It doesn't surprise me, but it doesn't make me okay with it.
Pierre's Career Bunt Hit Average (minus 2007): .387
he hasnt been getting bunt base hits this year.
Dontrelle Willis in Blue by Tuesday?
1.Lack of a 4th,5th starter
2.Juan Pierre
3.Defense
4.Rudy Saenez coming down to earth
Well said.
Pierre is just fine, maybe a tad overpaid but in a year the market will correct that.
I oscillate between a big stick and a 7th inning guy as THE big problem.
Still 15-11, Pads.
Russell Martin's bad second half has to be on there.
Nice one.
Heh.
he could have stayed still instead of pretending to go to 3rd, I thought it was a bad play but oh well.
I take it JP has not distinguished himself. And it seems like the D's pitchers are having a terrible time finishing off hitters, starting with Bills.
I have had a feeling throughout this series that nothing would go are way, and I don't get as upset as I once did. When Kent dropped that ball for the second time and Loney was judged to go around--I knew it was so. Things will turn around. I just hope Colletti doesn't make any panic trades.
I met a couple of Dodger fans in Chicago last week and we went to Beloit, WI on Tuesday to see Clayton Kershaw pitch. We sat right behind the plate in the "scouts area" and watched the whole game. A 27-year Cubs scout sat beside us. He said that he had never seen Kershaw before, but that when he threw 3 pitches in warmups, he knew he was special.
While this wasn't one of Clayton's best games, I saw enough to know that he has the tools to be a dominant #1 starter for the Dodgers:
1. He topped out at 97 (1 pitch), but threw many in the 95-96 range;
2. He throws a "heavy" ball and shattered 5 bats (4 of which were "bloop" hits);
3. His worst pitch is his curve;
4. He tends to get a little rattled by bad calls (remember he's only 19);
5. He just has a "presence" on the mound; and
6. He mixes speeds very well.
I talked to Josh Bell and he seems like a good kid - he's a few years away, but he bears watching.
It's really amazing to see how different the talent level is at Low A compared to AAA (I go to a lot of Indianapolis Indians games). The Cubs scout told us that this year the talent levels across the low minors is lower than it's been in some time.
6-0 now, good news indeed.
His curveball is good, you probably just saw it on a bad day.
Are you a Cubs fan?
Good man Gen3Blue that's the way I see it.
LaTroy "Screaming Line Drive" Hawkins.
Classic Colletti-style trade, since both Aardsma and Williams flamed out after being acquired for a middle reliever.
Aardsma?
judging by the swing Russell was expecting fastball but it was not sow, it's only a 3 run game now with that 2 RBI single by Kent & it's only the 7th inning.