That tidbit from the same article strikes me as the biggest contributor to keeping this run alive.

"I don't know (how things turned around so drastically). This is an unpredictable game that wants to be predicted by the media."

I remember when Kadeem Harrison was the big star who showed up at Clipper games (outside of the occasional Billy Crystal appearance)

http://tinyurl.com/pyw5u

Remember who K-Rod was called up for as an injury replacement? Steve Green. He never pitched that year and was on the DL as of March 11th.

Here's additional background on the rule and circumstances, though I disagree with Neyer's take:

http://tinyurl.com/o9elp

Rats!

I hate it when arcane matters come and go without me getting a chance to chime in.

That's my thing. That's what makes me special. No I feel so... so ... not arcane.

Yesterday's lesson: Make sure you put everything back inside before you zip up your pants after using the toilet

10 Did you get your genitals caught in your zipper?

Fortunately, the "There's Something About Mary" situation was avoided at the last second.

Umm, the opening part of the movie.

Everything is in the right place. Unscathed.

I will leave out the details. The FAA would describe it as a close call however.

If we've already bought in to the concept that a baseball team can expand its roster by 60% for the last month of the season, what's the problem with what the Angels did with Frankie Rodriguez/Steve Green?

Since then somebody else has already brought up Steve Green.

Green got a save for Canada against the USA in the WBC.

Repko
Ledee
Drew
Furcal
Martinez
Saenz

Lowe
Penny
Tomko

Nine. Seems an awfully low number.

And I'm sorry Bob for asking that roster question when you were not here. I'll try to think of something else to help you feel special again tomorrow.

I don't think it's doom and gloom to point that out when (very roughly) one out of a thousand big leaguers can put together that average for even one season.

That would be Daniel, in post #4.
;)

It's OK.

I'm figuring that tomorrow I'll just do something less glamorous. Like sticking my arm inside a combine.

If the team kept Cruz, they'd be overloaded with the wrong kind of hitter for most situations. Saenz, Repko, Cruz, Martinez and Hall on the bench - all righties or de facto righties.

When the Dodgers do go back to 11 pitchers, though, as I believe Eric suggested, Repko might be a good choice to send down for three weeks if Lugo will in fact be playing some center field. I'm also cool with Loney going down if Garciaparra is healthy - whenever that is.

But then again every so often (like a couple weeks ago) I root for the Dodgers to lose too ;)

The last person to end his career at .350 or better was Rogers Hornsby, who played his last full season in 1929.

Anyway, the only time I've seen her since our sixth-grade graduation was on Main Street in Santa Monica, about six years ago, and she remembered me, so I'm giving her points for that.

Cruz .199/.324/.321/.645
Ledee .240/.269/.400/.669

vs lefty:

Cruz .313/.420/.522/.942
Ledee only 2 ABs this year

Seems to me that the amount you gain by having Ledee around to face righties is a lot less than the amount you lose by not having Cruz around to face lefties. Plus, I think Cruz' defense is better.

Like I've said before, Cruz should have at least platooned with Lofton. He's much better vs lefties, and is better on defense period.

My point is not that Ledee is so great. My point is that against right-naded pitchers, the Dodgers would be really short of lefty options.

Williams
DiMaggio
Musial
D Walker
Cavarretta
Vernon
Goodman
Ashburn
Kuenn
Aaron
Cash
Clemente
Carty
Carew
Garr
Madlock
Brett
Boggs
Gwynn
Olerud
Galarraga
O'Neill
E Martinez
A-Rod
Walker
Nomar
Helton
Ichiro
Bonds
Pujols

So that's 30 guys in the last 65 years, plus the odd second or third place finisher.

I personally just think its because we haven't had a kickass rookie positional player in a while and everyone here is like, "I don't believe it. I can't believe it. Nope...its not happening."

A salute to either is fine by me.

Who are these people you're talking about? The worst thing that's been said here tonight, besides the one guy who mentioned Ethier in the same sentence with Francoeur but then said Ethier is better, is that Ethier won't keep his batting average above .350.

Unfortunately, throughout baseball history, this has proven not to be true. If Ethier hasn't learned to walk by now, the odds are very strong that he never will. The odd Sammy Sosa excepted. He may increase his walk rate a little bit, but for the most part what we see is what we're going to get.

Which is OK; Ethier's still a fine player the way he is. But I wouldn't go expecting him to learn to draw walks because chances are you'll be disappointed.

when talking about walks, being mentioned in the same sentence with Francoeur isn'tt paranoia!?!?

I wasn't expecting him to become Nick Johnson like with thw walks, but reasonable settle in the 10% of his PAs annually is something I would expect and that is right around solid discipline.

Yes, that game requires:
1) a game board with the spinners on it
2) a parent nearby to ajudicate any time it seems that the spinner landed on a line

Steve had a game when he was young and he burned the A-E and F-J disks.

well, you buyout his first 2 free agency years. And you lock him up through his age 28 season. I mean, in my opinion, if there was anyone to give a 6 yr deal to in baseball right now, its probably David Wright.

But I will give some props to the baseball game of my childhood, Starting Lineup Talking Baseball, which came out in, I believe 1988, that year of years. Now that I look back on it, it was probably a pretty stupid game because instead of teaching you math, it just let you push a button to make your moves. But it did come with a cool plastic replica stadium.

As an adult I learned Strat-O-Matic, which I still play, mostly during the winter. I replayed the 1988 playoffs with a buddy of mine recently and you all will be happy to know that the Dodgers still win.

IP H R ER BB SO

5.0 9 5 5 2 1

Looks like some things dont change...

If you don't want to post it here e-mail

oaklachi (at) yahoo.com

not yet. I apply this semester (i kinda forgot to take a class first semester freshmen year). So far in college, I have a 3.4 or so. So basically, I'm not really worried about getting in. My buddy got in last semester with the minimum (2.7 maybe?) so I don't really know what to make of their admission standards even though they do say its very competitive.

Yes true. And I probably overreacted. But I think that rant was more of a build up rant to the skepticism i've been hearing over the course of the year on how Ethier cant keep up his level of play. I apologized if it came on to strong. Ive been backing 3.5 since the trade and I ain't gunna stop now.

My housemate is over there now and he said its been monsooning like crazy! anyways though, i actually go back in 10 days on the 16th. I am really looking forward to the 8 hour drive yay!!

By the way, I leave for college on the 17th. Can't wait.

I object to your objection.

when are you thinking of transferring?

Stan from Tacoma

Stan from Tacoma

I know the definition of felony murder in California. And how to use adverse possession to take title to property.

Stan from Tacoma

Stan from Tacoma

Stan from Tacoma

Heck, I haven't shaved since the season started, excepting the odd beard trim here and there.

A) Beards do not improve my already marginal looks
B)I spend roughly six hours a day scratching my face
C) Between the food, beer, oversleeping, and facial hair, I'm looking more and more like Jim Morrison, pre-death, post-moving to Paris.

Not good.

Think "planned parenthood", "Tailhook", and "Clarence Thomas". That's about as specific as I can get. I never picked the names, but Good Lord, were they creative.

Assume his LD% rate is stable(ish) - since we don't have LD% numbers from the minors, it's all we have to go on for now. Assume the same for his FB% and HR/FB% rate - again - nothing from the minors to correct it.

Assume that his true IsoD is somewhere between this year's .45 and his minor league .70.

Adjusting back, this year instead of having a .350/.395/.565 he should have .308/.364/.495.

I can't find much wrong with that and I am someone who believes the trade was a bad one for the Dodgers. His age is such that his power and patience (particularly power) will continue to improve and the only stats in decline should be speed - which should also improve his game since he might stop trying to steal so much.

I played mine well into adulthood, until I finally got a Strat set. Now I'm in a perpetual search for the perfect computer baseball game (i.e., that perfect combination of stats and graphics). With MLB handing exclusive rights over to the console game makers, things have been grim lately.

When the spinner landed on the line, we just called it a foul ball, and spun again.

Unless there was a "liner" as it was known in our house.

What about the K-O spins? Those didn't have lines delineating their borders!

Us too.

I never needed anything more than Strat.

I'm way too old for the baseball board games everyone talks about. But I did have both "Electric Baseball" and"Electric Football". The "electricity" was really just making the metal field vibrate so the plastic players would move. The baseball game had some weird, only vaguely remembered way to determine a hit, then you'd flip on the board and try to make the players run the bases. It was really lame.

The football game worked similar. It had an electric field that vibrated. You'd line up both formations and turn on the board. 99% of the time the little players would go off in random directions not in the least resembling a football play. Occasionally, it would actually work where the lineman would open a hole and the running back would actually move forward for a gain. You could also make the quarterback "pass" this little foam rubber football. If it hit one of your receivers it would be a completion. There was zero percent chance that would ever happen so you quickly gave up the passing game.

It was really lame too, but it was funny for about 5 minutes watching the players scatter all over the field.

I also watched Murderball and Waiting this past weekend. They were both very good. Murderball, I'd put in my top 5 all time movies. It was a gripping documentary, on par with Hoop Dreams IMO.

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Heck, I'd be happy if someone made a game where your pitchers wouldn't finish the season with zero walks. The High Heat series was the only baseball game I ever played where you could actually walk people unintentionally.

With that, I end up turning to the text based sims, but even those have problems. Out Of The Park implements the rules of the game better than any sim I've seen, but it doesn't have actual players, so you have to find someone who has punched in all the stats by hand. This is good, but they tend to leave out details like when the player started, so I ended up losing my entire farm system to the Rule V Draft. The AI is also brain dead when it comes to contracts, making it impossible to land any big free agents. I ended up offering Lance Berkman a eight year, 150 million dollar deal out of shear desperation, only to get no where close to the 190 million dollar contract he ended up signing for. There's no real control over contracts, so you can't offer options or backload deals. Finally, there's some rules issues. For example, there's no waivers, so you can move guys off the 40 man roster with no penalty.

Baseball Mogul is still way off from what I've seen. Incomplete farm systems, no 40 man roster, and I'm sure there's some other things I'm missing (I just picked it up yesterday.)

It shouldn't be that hard to get the transaction rules correct, but I've yet to see any game implement something as simple as waivers correctly.

My best friend had one, and that was exactly what we thought. Then we went back to our disks and spinners.

This needs to be tattooed on every forehead of every person involved in making a computerized baseball game.

"The Washington Nationals today acquired a pair of 23 year-old starting pitchers, righthander Garrett Mock and lefthander Matt Chico, from the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for right-handed pitcher Livan Hernandez. Nationals Vice President and General Manager Jim Bowden made the announcement."

This from a press release by the Nationals received by one of the Nats bloggers in his email. No link yet.

Livan had an awful first few month of the season, but has been much better over July. He was dealing yesterday v. the Padres. He's under contract next year too for around $7 mill.

http://tinyurl.com/zkfdr

Los Angeles Dodgers
Placed C Kengshill Pujols on restricted list

Anybody know the deal?

The most important factor if your grades aren't super is work experience. Or anything that passes for work experience. Depending on your age, this might an internship, job, whatever. The important thing in writing your resume/personal statement is to note and focus on the leadership, managerial, and business related tasks you did while there. I don't care if you were a life guard at a summer day camp, list the schedules you had to make, the logs you had to write, etc. Just phrase them properly.

Not having read any previous posts about you, one suggestion is to examine what you want to get out of the program. There is a HUGE variation in both coursework, focus, and opportunities at each school. I turned down admits at Anderson and Sloan because they didn't (and still don't!) have what I was looking for. I'm applying for a couple PhD programs this year so can feel your pain. Also going through a bunch of screening processes for jobs within government, so I'm slowly becoming an expert on writing in 'application lingo.'

Sorry for the long post...

Please forgive me if I'm prying; I'll finish my MBA at Anderson next spring so I'm somewhat interested in helping others through the process of selecting and applying to different business programs.

So, the next seven games are against the Rockies and Giants? What are the odds that the winning streak extends to 16?

Sounds like that may soon be what the Reds are doing - literally acquiring every middle reliever. Is no middle reliever safe from Krivsky? It's midnight, do you know where your middle reliever is?

Hopefully, on an eastbound plane to Cincinnati with Aaron Harang coming back west.

I decided that business school in general, the best ones included, don't offer what I want/need for my future career. Not at all a knock on the programs to be certain.

Currently finishing my Master's degree (not an MBA) at another school. The PhD programs I'm looking at are highly focussed in the field I'm in right now, and there are some research ideas I'm really keen on doing. Whether I do so at a PhD program or under employ is still up in the air; mainly dependent on if my current job can shift to a new locale, if my clearances come through before I need to decide about more schooling, etc.

Anderson was my first choice had I gone the MBA route btw.

And as to the Dodger's extending the streak to 16, simple odds say a .500 team will have less than 1% (0.0078) chance of winning seven games in a row. Of course matchups play a huge role, and in such a limited number of observations there is not a way of reasonably predicting the outcome. If I could, I'd do a sweet parlay!

http://www.puresim.com/

How about comparing Ethier to Milton Bradley's 2003 season?

The latest info I can find is from an mlb.com story back in March saying that he was nearing his return.

http://tinyurl.com/kfjcr

139 I ran a binomial distribution function that assumes the Dodgers win probablility at home is 0.564 and the opponents' winning percentage on the road is equal to 1-0.564 (in reality it's not exact, but still pretty close).

Here are the non-cumulative odds of the Dodgers winning zero through seven of their next seven games:

7 1.81%
6 9.79%
5 22.75%
4 29.35%
3 22.72%
2 10.56%
1 2.72%
0 0.30%

Basically, Thompson's not doing particularly well and hasn't thrown yet.

Certainly, its possible that Ricky Ledee could be dealt or Ramon Martinez to a team that wants some additional bench strength.

But as far as a major move, with waivers and the fact that they already are facing some tough roster decisions later this week, it would just seem unlikely that they would be the ones acquiring anyone for their roster.

Probable roster on Friday August 11th.

SP Brad Penny
SP Derek Lowe
SP Greg Maddux
SP Chad Billingsley
SP Mark Hendrickson
RP Aaron Sele/Gio Carrera (hopefully one clears waivers, so he could sent down to AAA, until September 1)
RP Elmer Dessens (if he goes on DL, they can delay above question until later this month)
RP Joe Beimel
RP Brett Tomko
RP Jonathan Broxton
RP Takeshi Saito

C Russ Martin
C Toby Hall

IF Nomar Garciaparra
IF Jeff Kent
IF Rafael Furcal
IF Wilson Betemit
IF Ramon Martinez
IF Olmedo Saenz
IF Julio Lugo

OF J.D. Drew
OF Kenny Lofton
OF Andre Ethier
OF Jason Repko
OF Ricky Ledee

On 9/1 we bring up Kemp/Loney/a fast runner/maybe Kuo and hopefully we continue to win.

I REALLY want to believe Neddie has put us in a position to make the playoffs AND a World Series run.

If the Reds are trading for the likes of Ryan Franklin I can't imagine them not putting in claims on Sele and Gio.

I'm not surprised. The majority of players do (that doesn't make it right). Derek Lowe's character was questioned, so why not Lo Duca?

Plaschke will now write saying that nothing would have happened if he had stayed in LA.

I think the comment on the majority of players do that is a generalization, though lets remember that a third or so of all marriages end up in divorce so it should not be surprising that it occurs in pro sports too.

For what it's worth, my Mets fan friends from NY love Lo Duca and think that he was, quote, "Born to be a Met."

I remember a link, posted months ago, to some photos of Lo Duca and other Mets (David Wright?) out with women at a bar somewhere. This was occurring amid rumors of an impending divorce for the Lo Ducas, so the divorce announcement isn't exactly news.

I'd like to rest Billingsley so he doesn't pitch more than 170-180 innings, including the playoffs, as he only pitched 146 last season (and 134 the year before). He's at 121 for the year, and if he plays a big role in the playoffs, he could get up to 200+ (although he shouldn't pitch more than 180 innings or so in the regular season if he makes all of his starts). I don't like increasing his workload by 50+ IP in a single season when he's only 21.

Yes it is, but in this case it's a generalization that happens to be correct.

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"On 9/1 we bring up Kemp/Loney/a fast runner/maybe Kuo and hopefully we continue to win"

Callup candidates:

Kuo
Kemp
Whoever gets cut today
Miller
Elbert (unlikely)
Hull
Whoever's catching in Vegas these days
Ruan
Robles
Carter
Houlton
Osoria
Wunsch
Stults

The ones I personally expect to see are in bold.

Also, 149, 162: I'm pretty sure Carrara and Sele wouldn't have to clear waivers since they both signed minor league contracts. They could simply be optioned down, same as Loney.

This kind of stuff (coupled with the multi-million dollar contracts) makes it difficult for me to "root" for players as persons. Sure, I want "my" team to succeed, but it's rare that I actually become attached to any particular player anymore.

Also, the vast majority of baseball wives, I think, enter into their marriages knowing that's part of the deal. The unspoken agreement is you're trading off you're husband's fidelity for lots and lots and lots of money. Been that way for decades.

It goes without saying that there are plenty of exceptions to this, of course.

Nah, I'm still all right to smile...

Until they give me reason to think otherwise, I've pretty much reached the conclusion that most players are spoiled, whiny, philandering, roidhogs who aren't worthy of my support. That's what made a guy like HSC so refreshing: Hee didn't seem like any of that.

But I still don't support it as a fan...

Hooker Proclaims, "Hee Made Me Go Buy His HGH!"

While what Lo Duca did was wrong, could you imagine being Dave Stewart's girlfriend/wife? lol

Nah, too boring... ;-)

Alas, it's true. I'm a changed fan.

Is fan even the right noun?

Depends. If "fan" is short for "fanatic," then I suppose it's not.

Of course, one has to wonder why this playboy centerfold was with Loduca in the first place?

Loduca and Sonia?
Alyssa Milano and Brad Penny?

Its one thing if the skirts are chasing the money, but these girls have money of their own. Its not like Penny and Loduca are A-List bachelors. One looks like Larry the Cable Guy, and the other is a midget.

They must have great personalities.....

1. Lo Duca was cheating on his wife while still a Dodger, and
2. Depo knew about it, and
3. That knowledge had some greater-than-zero influence (however small) on the decision to get rid of him?

(Paris) Hilton also told the magazine she collects $500,000 in fees just to show up at parties and other events from Las Vegas to Tokyo. Her best-paying gig, she said, was a recent Austrian appearance.

"I had to say 'hi' and tell them why I loved Austria so much," she is quoted as saying.

And why does she like Austria? "Because they pay me $1 million to wave at crowds!"

It's like there's a rule that super-attractive women can only date mean with status-rich jobs like actors and athletes, or even industrial heirs and sports bloggers.

Jose Diaz RHP - 22 years old, still in High A ball
Tim Hamulack LHP - 29 years old, AAA numbers 1.71 ERA, 31.2 27 hits 1 HR 36/22 K/BB ratio
D.J. Houlton RHP - AAA - 5.90 ERA, 129.2 140 hits 22 HRs 105/55 K/BB ratio
Hong-Chih Kuo LHP - 25 years old, AAA - 3.93 ERA, 34.1 39 hits, 3 HRs 40/17 K/BB ratio
Greg Miller LHP, 21 years old, AAA - 4.68 ERA, 25.0 IP, 24 hits, 0 HRs 19/25 K/BB ratio
Franquelis Osoria RHP, 24 years old, AAA - 37.0 IP, 57 hits, 2 HRs, 22/15 K/BB ratio
Andy LaRoche 3B, 22 years old, AAA - .323/.413/.516 6 doubles, 6 HRs in 124 at bats (in over 400 PAs in AA/AAA, he has 60/47 BB/K ratio)
James Loney (assuming he goes down this week) 1B, 22 years old, AAA - .372/.419/.539
Oscar Robles, IF, 30 years old, AAA - .300/.376/.330
Matt Kemp, OF, 21 years old, AAA - .341/.434/.529 (12/15 BB/K ratio in 97 PAs, stolen 7/8)
Delwyn Young, OF, 24 years old, AAA -
.274/.332/.455 (32 doubles, 14 HRs)

This is before the presumed move of either Sele or Carrera to AAA if they clear waivers.

I don't think they will add any of their other prospects to the 40 man roster if they don't have to, since Las Vegas will not be in the playoffs, I would assume that only Loney, Kemp, and Kuo are locks to come up, Hamulack could too though Grady had a lot of resistance to using him, other than those 3, Miller and LaRoche only if they want him to get a feel of MLB clubhouse in a pennant chase but I don't think either would see much time.

By my count, the Dodgers do have some open spots on their 40 man roster (2, 3 if they put Gagne on 60 day DL) and so they may purchase one of their catchers as added bench strength, some might argue for someone like Wilkin Ruan to add some more speed but I don't know if they would use up a roster spot for that.

Jimmy Connors has to have one of the more sucessful marriages to a former Playmate of the Year, has to be well over 20/25 years.

This guy always jumps out at me when looking at the 40-man. Is Jumbo really worth locking up a spot for?

With the likes of Houlton, Hamulack, and Robles, there seems to be bigger fish to fry. Did Jumbo get added because of service time, or was it a contractual thing?

And Loduca really isnt very famous.

Jennifer Walcott dates former Rams safety Adam Archuleta, and that I can buy bc Archuleta looks the part of someone that would date a playmate. Loduca/Penny not so much.

OTHO, Paris Hilton is a nobody. She has no talent, no personality, and she's got no curves. I used to enjoy pop culture until it embraced Paris Hilton.

I was about to say that.

But I've never been in the Dodger's locker room, so I can't speak for Penny...

of course, one line surrounded by a sea of denial and disablief will most often times get overlooked or probably not even taken seriously.

Hey Nate, who would you jettison off the 40 man roster at the end of the year? I'll put in my list later?

It was only a week ago when news broke when they acquired Maddux and Lugo, so far, so good but now lets see how they integrate the returns of Kent and Nomar.

I'd settle for the Dodgers catching the Padres or Reds first. Or even surpassing the Diamondbacks.

Lo Duca .324/.368/.426 21%CS .275EQA
Martin .308/.372/.465 29%CS .286EQA

We have 4 at home with the Rox while SD plays 3 at NYM. Haven't looked to see who is pitching for NYM but I'm hoping Pedro gets a turn.

Over the weekend we have 3 at home with SF while SD plays 3 at Houston.
Clemens pitched on Saturday so I'm hoping he pitches Friday against SD.

On paper we should be in 1st by the end of the week or maybe 1/2 out. ON PAPER THAT IS

Baseball is a funny game.

It happened to the A's last year; they caught they Angels andd immediately after, fell back. It happened to the Indians last year as well and the Yankees, but they rebounded again and overcame a small deficit.

The most apparent occurence of this law occured in 2004 when the Dodgers couldn't buy a win and the Giants were on fire. In one week the Dodgers lead went from 6.5 to .5. Then the Dodgers rebounded and won 2 of 3 against the Giants.

214 and 216. If it is the job that makes them so, than all who believe it must also concede that if you or your brother or your best friend were lucky enough to become a pro ballplayer, than prejudgement of you or yours as greedy, cheaters, whatever, would be okay.

you know Russell Martin is gonna go after the ladies, he's single so go get 'em Martin!

That's the problem with huge deficits, the reason why the Dodgers were in trouble two weeks ago, is that it takes so much to make them up, you have no surge left.

and let the streak keeping going!

There is no wisdom without generalization.

You honestly don't believe that this sample of 750 has been preselected for specific traits? This isn't just a "career". This is something that almost every American male would love to do if he had the ability. You don't think those 750 must have some things in common that allowed them to succeed where the rest of us failed or never tried?

This could also be applied to chasing the ladies.

It's just that being an athlete/rockstar/billionaire allows them to act this way, by giving them the support structure, money, attraction, and lack of accountability that you need to be a real scoundrel.

The law there was that a bad trade will eventually come back and bite you.

Hopefully, between Penny, Maddux and Lowe, the Dodgers won't run into too many bad streaks anymore.

One thing I like about Kent and Garciaparra in the lineup is that I really did not like the 6-7 LH bats in the lineup against RH pitchers, having the ability to mix it up a little with Garciaparra, Drew, Kent, Ethier and Betemit gives them the lineup more punch and more diverse looks for the pitcher.

Meanwhile, sounds like Nomar's been nominated for comeback player of the year - not surprising, certainly. His chances of winning will obviously depend on how he comes back after the stint on the DL.

But, how exactly is a team's probability of winning a game (and a particular game for that matter), and is each game a truly independent event (like each coin flip)?

Ahh...those are the truly interesting questions.

1. What effects the probability of winning, ie. midseason trades, callups, DL, etc...

2. Is each game an independent event?

well after the season, these players should be off the 40 man roster:

jose diaz
tim hamulack
aaron sele
toby hall
julio lugo
ramon martinez
rickey ledee
kenny lofton

What's the most recent list of kids that need to be protected from the Rule 5 draft?

anyways, i dont think we will lose anyone significant to the rule 5 draft. we have enough room on the 40 man roster unless colletti decides he wants to fill it up with jason grabowskis or lance carters.

That's an interesting comp - Bradley was 25 and in 450 PAs hit 321/421/501 with 64W/73K and played a good CF. Ethier is 24 and projects to about 430 PAs currently hitting 350/399/554 and projects to about 35W/85K and plays LF (I have not seen him play OF). Anderson was 23 and in 1995 hit 321/352/505 with 19W/65K. Ethier figures to be somewhere in the middle of those careers, and that would be fine. If only Braley and Ethier were both still Dodgers.