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America voted. And Eric Hull, Zach Hammes, Mike Megrew, Scott Elbert, A.J. Ellis, Chin-lung Hu, Ken Huckaby, Travis Smith, Fernando Tatis, Dario Veras and Damian Jackson, your journey ends here.
(As announced by the Dodgers this morning.)
You'll pay, bhsportsguy. Don't think you won't pay.
Nothing like facing Nats pitching to make your bats feel better.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/
Some guy named Kemp is coming up.
JD Drew as Dodger: gets hit by pitch, breaks wrist
JD Drew as Red Sock: pitcher can't even hit him intentionally
The good guys won!
I wish we could make room for Abreu but he and Hu will make a nice DP combo at Vegas for a while this year.
He also claims that his new work-out program is a bunch of "crap" fabricated by writers who need to "fill space".
I hope this is J.K.'s last year in baseball, even though he homered today. Abreu looks pretty promising.
I've read several places he's hardly topped 85-86 for a couple years. It's the late movement that's big for him now.
And yeah, pure velocity won't get it. If a FB is all a pitcher has, no matter how hard he can throw, ML hitters will catch up to it. See Penny, Brad, second half, '06.
http://www.fresnobee.com/513/story/34593.html
(Goodwin now to manage an independent minor league team.)
36 Did Kent really say that about his workout program? Sheez, someone woke up on the wrong side of his motorcycle this morning.
However, if he gets to the 6th and 7th with San Diego, he will be okay.
I should have gone there for grad school.
Let us all reflect on his greatest moments as a Dodger.
How long will that take?
Damian Jackson did not take his cut very well, did he? Maybe the Nationals will sign him.
Shocking, I know.
>>> Jackson among first roster cuts
By Kevin Baxter, Times Staff Writer
March 11, 2007
VERO BEACH, Fla. — The Dodgers made their first round of roster cuts this morning, optioning three pitchers to minor league camp, reassigning seven other players and releasing infielder Damian Jackson.
Jackson took the news hardest, toppling chairs as he stormed out of the clubhouse.
"I no longer have anything to do with baseball," said Jackson, an 11-year major league veteran invited to camp as a non-roster player.
Jackson, 33, hit .198 in 67 games with the Washington Nationals last summer and was just two for 16 (.125) in eight games this spring. So Dodger General Manager Ned Colletti said the team released Jackson early to give him an opportunity to sign elsewhere.
"He's not going to make this club," Colletti said. "If I wasn't going to make the club I'd rather know on March 11 than March 31."
http://tinyurl.com/2xpjph <<<
But my headline may be too subtle.
I think Jackson should be cut some slack - it's not easy facing the end, even if it perhaps should have been clear that the end was coming.
He was also hurt during Spring Training, which I'm sure frustrated him.
In football, they happen in the summer.
In basketball, it happens in the fall.
http://tinyurl.com/3yqbtz
But often you eventually figure out what baseball people already know.
I am guessing the Nationals might want him as a pitcher anyway.
Actually, I think Penny still has his velocity. Its a mystery that a pitcher who gets it is so close to a thrower who doesn't.
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