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Dodger home record: 50-35 (.588)
When Jon attended: 9-5 (.643)
When Jon didn't: 41-30 (.577)
Dodgers at home: 795-635 (.556)
Jon attended: 302-238 (.559)*
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Current Roster with Estimated 2009 Salaries
(updated November 14)
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)
$10,000,000 Hiroki Kuroda
*$475,000 Chad Billingsley
*$415,000 Clayton Kershaw
*$405,000 Eric Stults
*$400,000 James McDonald
*Total: $11,695,000
Bullpen (7)
*$2,500,000 Takashi Saito
*$1,300,000 Scott Proctor
*$1,500,000 Jonathan Broxton
*$425,000 Hong-Chih Kuo
*$420,000 Cory Wade
*$410,000 Ramon Troncoso
*$400,000 Scott Elbert
Total: $6,955,000
Also on 40-man roster
Mario Alvarez
Yhency Brazoban
Greg Miller
Justin Orenduff
Starting Lineup (8)
$17,100,000 Andruw Jones
*$3,000,000 Russell Martin
*$2,500,000 Andre Ethier
*$600,000 Matt Kemp
*$600,000 James Loney
*$500,000 Angel Berroa
*$410,000 Blake DeWitt
*$400,000 Tony Abreu
Total: $25,110,000
Bench (5)
$10,000,000 Juan Pierre
*$600,000 Jason Repko
*$410,000 Delwyn Young
*$400,000 Danny Ardoin
*$400,000 Chin-Lung Hu
Total: $11,810,000
Note: Team can buy out Ozuna's 2009 option for $200,000
Also on 40-man roster
A.J. Ellis
Lucas May
Xavier Paul
Disabled List
$12,000,000 Jason Schmidt
Also Paying ...
$2,000,000 Brad Penny (buyout of $9,000,000 option)
$50,000 Gary Bennett (buyout of $900,000 option)
Note: Kansas City is responsible for $500,000 buyout of Angel Berroa's $5,500,000 option for 2009.
Working total: *$68,020,000
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Robin Hood, a great-paced, unsung hero of a show, has its second-season premiere tonight on BBC America. Depending on where and how you get your television, it might be on as soon as 6 p.m. - perfect for just before tonight's game. Otherwise, look for re-airings later in the evening or the coming week. I'll (hopefully) be watching after the game.
The early Macs had some pretty silly software you could get for them. One was a thing called Talking Moose where you could type in a phrase and it would play it back in this robottie Bullwinkle voice. Well, a friend of mine had a 3-year-old daughter at the time and she was sitting by the Mac so we typed in "Hello Martha" in talking Moose. When it re-played through the Mac, she started crying. We asked her what was wrong and she said "I don't like the moose talking about me".
We use that phrase now anytime we don't like something someone says.
Hopefully we get another fun one tonight.
A B.J. Upton double is the only thing preventing Clay Buchholz from pulling a Clay Buchholz.
From previous thread, to trainwreck, yah, we got our guy with the first pick so I'm happy. The second one seemed kind of a head scratcher, though. But maybe they just like that WR. They coulda had DeSean Jackson! Oh well. And no third round picks.
Go Dodgers! Will only be watching sporadically. But as long as they have the gnome around I feel fairly confident.
SS Furcal
LF Pierre
RF Kemp
2B Kent
C Martin
1B Loney
CF Jones
3B DeWitt
RH Penny
Ethier is the odd man out tonight, Matt Kemp bats third. Apparently the name of the game is speed at the top of the lineup, although if speed were the sole determinant, I think we'd see
Pierre
Furcal
Kemp
Martin
Dewitt
Loney
Kent
Penny
Jones
Jones
vs. LH: .316/.409/.632/ 1.041
vs. RH: .121/.215/.155/.371
Oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly, what a day...
Robin Hood, Robin Hood with his band of men
Feared by the bad, loved by the good
Robin Hood... Robin Hood.
Was at the game last night and attempted my first scorecard ever. What a game to try that. I think I did a pretty good job considering. I always thought runs scored on a wild pitch were unearned, but according to the box score, they count (which makes more sense to me. If it's the pitchers fault, it's his fault).
ERA
Chan Ho Park: 3.00
Chad Billingsley: 6.53
FIP (Per fangraphs)
Chan Ho Park: 7.93
Chad Billingsley: 4.28
Chan Ho is also giving up 15.6 walks and hits per 9 innings.
Something tells me his 3.00 ERA isn't gonna last very long.
As for Kent, he really always does what's expected of him, and I won't complain about .280, 80 RBI's, although the range is a bit tough.
What's "FIP"...?
As for the scorecard, there's only one thing you need to make it work: WW
Fielding Independent Pitching, a measure of all those things for which a pitcher is specifically responsible. The formula is (HR*13+(BB+HBP-IBB)*3-K*2)/IP, plus a league-specific factor (usually around 3.2) to round out the number to an equivalent ERA number. FIP helps you understand how well a pitcher pitched, regardless of how well his fielders fielded. FIP was invented by Tangotiger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_independent_pitching_statistics
On a related note, I'm getting the feeling that Penny's peripherals are catching up with him this season.
Hope the Dodgers have that gnome handy.
33 You don't have to go to anything as sophisticated as peripherals to follow Penny . Last year he threw 95-96, this year 92-93. I am being slightly unfair, because tonight as he gets warm he may be over 95.
Lets see.
I wish he was on base more.
And that's JP's game in a nut shell.
In Russian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZNMPAu2qgI&feature=related
Between Redman's pitching and this song, I feel like jumping in front of a bus.
Luck is part of the game isn't it?
70 Yes luck is a big part, and it has killed us early this year. So it is prudent to remember that it can turn on a dime.
Who knew Ethier was the one dragging down the offense?
No sympathy required.
That's the Matt Kemp that I'm talk'n about.
When do we face Mark Hendrickson?
(I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but still).
I'm pretty sure he faces more heat from Tommy during BP.
As Martha would say "and that's a good thing".
Tip #1: Throw 10 MPH faster.
Good call.