In each race, two clear favorites have emerged and are waging close battles for the top spot. I won't post any results until the polls have closed, as to not sway the voting.

I'm just gonna give the All-Time Faves*:

Fernando
Pedro G.
Sax
Orel
Piazza

Honorable Mention:

Hee-Seop Ch-i

*I don't necessarily have much emotional connection to these players now, but I did when they played.

Broxton: 1.49
Guo: 2.67
Beimel: 2.86
Wade: 3.23
Billingsley: 3.30
Lowe: 3.71
Penny: 3.77
Kuroda: 4.30
Loiaza: 4.64
Park: 5.57
Proctor: 5.75

This list tells a different story.
vr, Xei

Alternately, I should have created a bunch of sockpuppet accounts, and really rigged the poll up good. But that's a lot of work, as opposed to snubbing, which comes effortlessly to me.

You can probably get away with PG-13

The only thing that come to mind was Jar Jar Binks.

All-Time (that I was old enough to see)
Guererro
Fernando
Scioscia
Cey
Orel

2 for 3.

Current
1. Bison
2. Russ
3. Loney
4. Broxton
5. Furcal

All-Time-
1. Jackie
2. Koufax
3. Edwin Jackson (what can i say, i got attached)
4. Piazza
5. Campy

As for my all-time #3, he currently has a VORP over 10. He is also second in the majors behind Cliff Lee in starts giving up 0 runs. He has 3 and i like Lee has 5 or 6.

"Cate Blanchett" is perfectly fine, however.

Please forgive me everyone.

I hope Eric never gets a job he pays attention to so that we get his complete poll attention.

"This is the first time he's left the nest," the manager said. "He's been with an organization his whole life. He ventures out; he doesn't do very well."

I then wondered what explained Jones's 2007, given that he was still in the nest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmFAL84Egw

He left "the nest" of Curacao in 1994 and over the next 3 seasons played in 7 cities and roared thru the farm system. He did all this as a teenager. It did not seem to bother him then.

He spent 12 years in Atlanta and I have no doubt he misses it and it's an adjustment but I'm skeptical that that is the root of the problem.

Having said all that, I agree with Torre in keeping him in the lineup. If he starts hitting we will be a much better team.

I hate it when the fans boo a Dodger unless he's not trying.

53.2 IP
32 Hits
4 BBs
44 Ks
1 HR

0.67 ERA

All the peripherals are good. 11-1 (Ks/bbs) is insane. But 32 hits allowed in 53 IP?

Wow.

A year from now instead of lamenting that Ned wasted money on A Jones, the debate will be how long and for how much we should extend his contract.

The sooner he works things out the less Pierre we'll see which is to everyone's benefit.

This quest, while fun, has taken some time to keep up with. It may have been easier to compile everything at the end, but it wouldn't have been nearly as fun.

I suspect some fans interpret Jones's weight to be an indication that he's not trying as hard as he could.

When the Reds traded Frank Robinson to the Orioles it was because they said he was an old 30, when you look at A Jones, he looks like an old 31.

Chad Billingsley
James Loney
Russell Martin
Matt Kemp
Jonathan Broxton

All-Time (Non-Current):

Bob Welch
Steve Garvey
Eric Gagne
Tim Belcher
Eric Karros

Hard to remember but when Welch came up it seemed very Kershaw like. He had electric stuff.

Current-
Martin
Kemp
Saito
Broxton
Loney

All Time-
Yeager
Fernando
Dusty Baker (sorry)
Cey
Pedro Guerrero

I picked 4 of the same all-time 5 except you have Boomer and I took Reggie Smith.

Hmmm, 1981 World Series MVP Trio, 1981 Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Award winner and Johnnie B. Baker. Nothing wrong with those 5.

All-Time:
Robinson
Koufax
Hershiser
Baker
Scioscia

in other news, dialidol.com predicts a david v. david final, using busy signals as an indicator of the number of votes. it's science!

Plus, look at the expected ERAs in 12 . The pitchers have been fine; just a bit unlucky.

Kemp
Martin
Furcal
Billingsley
Kuo

All-Time (that I've seen):

Orel
Piazza
Beltre
Ramon Martinez (I)
Gagne

This is not true.

In Betemit's case, he was a reverse agegate guy. The Braves tried to pass him off as older than he really was so that they could sign him before he turned 16. It's the same thing the Dodgers did with Beltre. So Betemit is actually younger than his official DOB says he is.

With Furcal, he turned out to have fudged his age to make him appear younger. But there has never been any suspicion that the Braves were complicit in this; in fact, it makes no sense whatsoever that they would be. The whole reason players fake their ages is to appear younger to the team signing them, so that they can get a bigger bonus -- or, in some cases, so they can be signed at all. If the team knew the player's real age, then that would eliminate the only reason for faking one's age in the first place.

Pierre, LF
Jones, CF
Kemp, RF
Kent, 2B
Martin, C
Loney, 1B
DeWitt, 3B
Hu, SS
Lowe, P

Hope Lowe's sinker is working today.

Did Fimple get a retirement benefit from MLB with these numbers?
http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/fimplja01.shtml

Does anyone know the MLB retirement deal? Days and dollars.

All-Time Dodgers
1) Sandy Koufax
2) Ron Cey
3) Don Drysdale
4) Gil Hodges
5) Orel Hershiser

All-Time:
Koufax
Hershiser
Reese
Piazza
R Martinez

Dorey Wade followed Brad Penny with two scoreless innings and lowered his ERA to 1.88

Gio - he was awesome for us.

Charlie Neal
Junior Gilliam
Johnny Roseboro
Doug Camilli
Maury Wills

My all-time favorites are really:
Myron White
Mike Ramsey
Mike Ramsey
Sandy Vance
Camilo Pascual

All-Time (Life Time):
Hershiser
Piazza
Butler, Brett (I was young)
Beltre
Mondesi

All-time:
Garvey
Orel
Scioscia
Cey
Piazza

If Jones did steroids, then stopped before last season, doesn't that explain the precipitous decline? Plus, who's to know for sure whether he might not be a couple years older than he's supposed to be.

He batted .222 last season. And while he hit 26 home runs, he was playing in the NL East, in hitter-friendly parks, and not facing the pitching he's seeing now in the NL West.