Trade talk with capital "T"
And that rhymes with "C"
And that stands for "Colletti"

And....

Andre Ethier- Texas League MVP!!!

While I type that: Two pitches, two hits. Nice!

Sort of hard to tell, but likely not going out.

Zito really has lost all of his command. No corners for him, as everything is either in the heart of the zone or a ball.

Btw, Jon, just made my first donation to this site. Baseball is my religion and all the posters here are my congregation. Thanks.

Nice start, anyway.

That fan is an idiot - good to see him quickly ejected.

Oh and Russell's reaction to striking out made me laugh. He had this "What?! How'd I strike out to Zito?" and then something unrepeatable here.

loney got worked on the 2nd pitch. I dont mind if the umpire stretches the zone a little for a guy that has been hitting corners and throwing strikes. Zito didnt pitch well enough to deserve that call and it changed the AB completely.

Meanwhile, the Indians have maintained contact with a broad array of suitors, including the Tampa Bay Rays, who are also loaded with prospects, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. But the Rays may not be as motivated to make a Sabathia trade as the Brewers, and may instead choose to focus on other needs (a right-handed hitting outfielder). The Dodgers have frustrated other teams with their style of deal-making, which presents a constantly moving target and makes it unclear to other teams who, among the Dodgers' prospects, is actually available. The Dodgers do not appear anywhere close to making a deal for Sabathia, sources indicated on Saturday evening.

I'm glad he is though.

http://mlbonxm.blogspot.com/2008/07/andy-laroche-on-cc-sabathia.html

http://tinyurl.com/5etjxv

Unless, of course, he can do that.

some of you guys have mentioned this & I agree, Sabathias peak years are gonna be short lived if I were a GM I wouldn't take a chance on him.

"You only pick off the good baserunners... the daring baserunners"

And apparently, Baron Davis signing with the Clippers is the same as Garnett being traded to the Celtics. THE. SAME. THING.

It's nice to see his idiocy is not limited to the Dodgers and Lakers.

The Ball Dudes.

Um, did I just see Martin sporting a mohawk?

AS is showing his age if he "don't dig it" I think it looks rockin' man, very cool.

3-0 in the 7th.

The best part of that being a great memory is that the Dodgers won the game and eliminated the Giants from the playoffs that night.

He snatched a sure hit from the Giants batter, dove, stood up LIGHTING QUICK & throw him out.

with a runner on 3rd I might add.

Like Brian Bosworth or Lawrence Taylor.

Or Mr. T.

Seriously. Jack Wilson does not excite me.

Garate: 8IP 2ER 2bb .....16K

To be fair, he is pitching against A Jones and Chan Ho. Those strikeouts shouldn't count.

And another one against Kemp. Who has what, 91 so's now in 80 something games. So only 3 of his strikeouts should be condidered legitimite

True, then again, we can be saying, jeez...park?
=)

Why is he toiling in Low A?

I refuse to believe CHP isn't on the roids until MLB, for the first time ever makes a press release for a negative steroid test just to prove the skeptics wrong...i.e. me.

Its different, look at their k rates.

Juju.

DO you think Santana should be promoted to AA now?

Or at Jenny Craig.

Aaron Sele's first 4 starts 2006:
GmSc 61 60 54 75

Chan Ho Park first 3 starts 2008:
GmSc 51 64 74

wowiewowiewowie

I understand the concept of old veterans having good stretches. Look at Park's K rate as a starter. The way he is doing it is different compared to Sele and others. His stuff looks like Billingsley's out there.

I don't instinctively mute the SF games.

No matter how you slice it Park has been incredible, & like somebody else mentioned, he is hitting the coners.

One out.

or a combo of all?

That's a bit bold of a pronouncement, no? I don't see how one player suddenly renders a vastly larger sample size moot.

Two outs.

You mean, like from people like you back in 2004?

Final.

Sorry, you just put it on a T, someone had to take a swing at it.

music to my ears.

That was a huge pitch. A 2-0 changeup that was at least 4" outside but Zito got the call. Same exact pitch and Andy had to swing at it. Its amazing how much one little strike call can affect a whole game.

This is a yellow alert.

Yeah, that was a bad break for Andy. I think he should have taken that pitch, still, but you can't blame him for swinging if the umpire has an expanding strike zone.

I agree, it just seems that Canuck was a bit over-enthused about one single player bucking a huge trend, and completely dismissing statistics in favor of scouting.

Torre wants a K so he figures the borg is more likely to do that than Wade. We'll see what happens.

yeah I guess that's his logic, I was actually just thinking that.

woot!

And then he was traded to the Padres, got diagnosed with that intestinal disease in 2006.

I agree that Park's resurgence has been surprising, but is it really all that baffling? No more back issues, no more intestinal bleeding, plus a return to Dodgers Stadium, where he's always been great.

(By the way, I hate how delayed the MLBTV feed is. I keep reading what happens on here before I see it on the screen.)

Ah, okay. What's been park's injury problems over the last few years?

Stand down.

I wonder if anyone will ask Torre why he stuck with the Borg for so long.

Man, it was a great ride.

I'm just venting, I know.

let's respond with 6 runs! That will deflate the crow

just hit it out & we'll be cool with you, come on Andruw.

heck. at least he didn't K

that's what I'm thinking, it's actually improvement...

lets just say he gets 30 RBI this season (and i think thats being generous.)

Thats $600,000.000 per RBI.

just for fun, & looking at it now I would have taken out Folkenborg once he K'd the Giant hitter & brought in somebody else.

Torre pressed his luck & lost.

it was perfect!

And losing this game just hurts. Putting Falkenborg in during such a high leverage situation just blows my mind. What could Torre possibly be thinking?

He cant manage a bullpen. He's lucky he had Mariano rivera for the last decade. Yankee fans warned us that his pen management is questionable at best. He's used the Borg twice in 2 high leverage situations in the last week and both times he failed. Why he would use him over Wade, who has been grea tthis year blows my mind. Why either one would be brought in place of Beimel blows my mind. Basically, a lot of stuff Torre does blows my mind.

although 2 runs won't win many games.

Gracias. And its not like he hasnt had options the 2 times he brough in the Borg. In Houston Kuo should have been brought in after not having pitched in a week. today he had Beimel and Wade as alternatives. Each time he made the wrong choice and it didnt work either time. Luckily we won the game in Houston, but obviously we werent as lucky today.

I'm not going to defend the Falkenborg decision because my whole philosophy is to use your best reliever in the biggest situations. But the big blow was a seeing-eye chopper that any second baseman under the age of 40 probably would have reached (not that Kent didn't make a fine diving stop earlier).

Sometimes, the breaks beat the boys.

You would think a big league manager wouldn't put the worst pitcher on the team in during a really important spot, but I guess thats just too much to ask these days, yeah?

Yeah, that was pretty sad too. I think every other second baseman in the MLB would have at least stopped that ball. :(

Milwaukee wants C.C. in their rotation by Tuesday.

Torre is going to get second guessed anytime he brings anyone other than Saito, Broxton, Beimel, or Kuo right now, so I'm certainly not going to begrudge him from starting the 7th inning with one from that group.

Now lifting Beimel for 'Borg with one out, runner at third and a lefty on deck? Not sure about that one. Guess I simply don't have a lot of confidence in the 'Borg/Wade/Tron group in high-leverage situations. I'd rather take my chances with Beimel against Aurilia/Lewis/Winn.

The biggest reason the Dodgers lost is only scoring two runs off of Zito. A seeing eye chopper in that key inning didn't help either. Whatever. They got some breaks yesterday. I don't feel like losing sleep over this one.

Winning tomorrow would be nice. Since I'd hoped for 2 outta three and didn't expect more than that.

Amen to that. Please don't trade a bunch of young guys for CC Ned.

And I'm going to my first Dodger game of the year tommorow, so we better win too!!! :)

It's not remotely close to overdone.

We could resurrect the fantasy comedian draft. I take Woody Allen.

We get it, you want LaRoche to play everyday and you want DeWitt traded to Montreal.

And I didn't bring LaRoche up, so there's that.

Or an outright falsehood. You know, either one of those two things.

But I'm not looking to start a fight. I'm just here to enjoy the ride.

And the guy that's outhitting your boy right now.

It's certainly not your fault. Sorry.

I just don't like a guy whose been performing well to be derided at every turn because he wasn't an anointed one.

No hard feelings.

He's performed above expectations. Kudos to him for that. It doesn't mean he's performed at a level acceptable for a major league regular. Not by a long shot.

DeWitt filled his role on this year's team, filled it as well as we could have asked him to, and now it's time for him to step aside and let the major league players take over. We'll see you in a year or two, Blake.

It's pretty flipping annoying.

Bothers me.

I wouldn't be surprised if DeWitt's final 2008 numbers end up being just "pretty crappy". The "not nearly as crappy" part stems mostly from his fast start.

Looking more and more as if the Federer Era is over.

All I can say is Shipoopi.

I disliked the column as much as anyone, if not more, but spending a day seeing "ballplayer" every time DeWitt's name comes up is not my idea of fun. So maybe we can agree to just dial it back a little.

he he he

With all the talk of Federer passing Sampras on the career grand slam list, it's not unthinkable that Nadal could be the one to do it instead.