1. Madison Bumgarner LHP 6-5 220 (4)
2. Blake Beavan RHP 6-7 210 (6)
3. Michael Burgess OF L/L 6-1 200 (14)
4. Tim Alderson RHP 6-7 208 (22)

I guess they don't want to make Hendy be the only tall guy in the organization.

(Truly! I am not vialoating rule #6 or rule #7).

there are videos of all of them on milb.com

Burgess is generously listed as 6'1 but hes more 5'11.

He thinks that both teams will want to avoid the Boras negotiation hassles (BTW, in one of today's AZ papers, Boras says that he believes that RHP Max Schenzer (sp.) will not sign with the D-Backs, primarily because the guy he was dealing with before the draft left the D-Backs (I think to go to Washington) and he cannot come to terms with the new group. The prospect was supposed start his first game yesterday in the Indy league but it called rained out. Some believe that if he does what Hochevar did last year, he will be a top ten pick.

I like Billy Beane's outlook that the first 2 months are spent figuering out what you have, the middle 2 months are spent getting what you need, and the last 2 months are spent getting into the playoffs. If the Dodgers finish the first third of the season a top the NL West and looking good what does that mean for the anticipated mid-season shakeup involving the prospects and SP depth?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/03/BAG4OPKPFE3.DTL

BTW - I dropped the ball on summarizing Logan White's interview on BP radio, with no game tonight, I will transcribe the highlights for everyone tonight.

Are there any names out there that the Dodgers have been associated with?

Brewers have been heavy on Mike Moustakas and I cant see them going prep pitcher again; this time with an even rawer prep pitcher then the last one.

Jack McGeary.

Of course the sad thing for Bob is the unfortunate injury for Russ Ortiz that made this move necessary.

Neuritis is the general inflammation of the peripheral nervous system. That might describe fans in general.

Again despite Bob's insistence, that player will not be Russ Ortiz.

One potential snag to Bora's leverage are the changes for not signing an early pick.

Teams that fail to sign a first-round pick no longer receive an extra pick after the first round as compensation, but instead a virtually identical pick the following year; for example, a team that fails to sign the No. 5 pick one year will receive the No. 6 pick the next, rather than one in the 30s or 40s.

The same compensation also now exists for unsigned second-round picks, while a team that fails to sign a third-round pick will receive a sandwich pick between the third and fourth rounds.

No mention of what happens about not signing compensation picks, an aside that was brought up by Maury Allen's Business of Baseball column was that even now one month into the season and about six months after it was negotiated, the new CBA has not been published and put on the MLBPA website.

IPFW will play either Penn State or UC Irvine in the final.

It just seems that the men's championship consisted of winning your confenrece tournament and then going to a National Semi-Final.

Thu May 3 @ Taft 3 p.m.
Tue May 8 El Camino Real 3 p.m.
Thu May 10 @ Birmingham 3 p.m.
Tue May 15 @ Cleveland 3 p.m.
Wed May 23 City Section Playoffs First Round 3 p.m.
Fri May 25 City Section Playoffs Quarterfinals 3 p.m.
Wed May 30 City Section Playoffs Semifinals 3 p.m.
Sat Jun 2 City Section Playoffs Final @ Dodger Stadium TBA

37 Hmm? That was kindofa non-sequitur, but I'll bite. The latest:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/03/BAG31PKLA34.DTL

Sounds like 880 is much closer to reopen. (A week or a month...) Meanwhile, more people are taking BART, which was free on Monday.

46 Ks in 31 IP. Wow! Man I hate the Giants, coz I wanna be a Lincecum fan, I really do. But, it won't happen.

For the record:
Chatsworth - orange
Cleveland - red and black
El Camino Real - Blue
Taft - red and yellow

Ultimately, they will lose to a team wearing brown and gold.

Now Lincecum has done it at a higher level and he is other great numbers too, plus he has started where Meloan has pitched only in relief.

We'll get to see if Meloan is just another guy who can get out overmatched youngsters or if he can produce these results in AAA/Majors soon enough.

But I wanted to remind folks what we had too.

This is for Jon and everyone else from yesterday.

A short video on:

Title: How to make traffic lights change

Description: Watch this video to make traffic lights change

47 As I am afraid we are going to suffer from him, I like the name L-Cum, but I am afraid it will not do. Can we come up with something slightly less derogatory that will stick. Of course L-Cum isn't inately negative, so maybe it's OK.

Furcal
Martin
Nomar (3b)
Kent
Ethier
Kemp
Loney
pierre
arm

Anyone seen this piece? Please discuss. I more or less agree with him. The Dodgers need power if they're going to have a chance long-term.

I blame it on the West San Fernando Valley Media Bias.

When you got the power, then you get the winnin.

Winnin love power.

Tonight Larry Bigbie, Matt Kemp, James Loney, and others who have been up in the majors, will not get on a plane for the short hop to Fresno, instead they will board a bus and ride 6-7 hours for a series starting tommorow.

The Suns will take a bus tonight from the Raleigh, North Carolina area and probably go the same amount of time back home to Florida.

And the Great Lake Loons will have yet another similar trip ahead of them from Davenport, Iowa to Midland, Michigan.

Fortunately for them, the 66ers have a commute of 45 miles from Lake Elsinore back home to San Bernardnino after their game.

Their MLB parent club took a charterd plane from LAX to Atlanta, got into their bus and are now in their own rooms at the Westin Hotel.

Oh and they got more per diem today than their minor league cousins get probably for a week. (Okay maybe not a week, though the last report I saw was that the average minor league player gets $20 a day while the MLB guy gets $85, plus on game days, they have clubhouse spreads before and after the game).

If we keep interleague (and it seems 100% certain we are), we need to stop the "rivalry" angle. It screws up schedule balance (i.e., StL plays the Royals 6 times while the cubs play the Sox) and only really benefits about half the clubs (yes sir, that Mariners/Padres rivalry must really pack em in). Give me the Angels once every 3-6 years and then I get really excited again.

Despite having quite a few games where they have struggled to score runs, the Dodgers have managed 4.5 runs per game. Perry mentions the A's as an example of a team that can't win without offense, but the A's are scoring a full run less per game than the Dodgers.

It is an unfortunate fact that many baseball writers conflate the terms "power" and "offense." The two are mutually exclusive. It's ridiculous to state that the Dodgers can't continue to score runs without hitting homers when they did just that all season last year, and have continued that trend up until now.

birdie Numb-mum!

Some hilarious scenes in that one.

It's ridiculous to state that the Dodgers can't continue to score runs without hitting homers when they did just that all season last year, and have continued that trend up until now.

Dayn Perry addressed that very point in his article. He states that the Dodgers hit way above the league average with RISP last season. Was that because they just rounded up a bunch of 'clutch' hitters, or was it a fluke?

Probably a fluke.

Is that neuritis of the shoulder or the knee?

http://www.usu.edu/

Troubling, bc even last year's offense did have a sufficient OBP.

They've also compiled these numbers while getting nothing of value from Schmidt, their marquee winter addition. On the other hand, fifth starter Mark Hendrickson (1.30 ERA) will clearly not keep that up, and ditto for Brad Penny (1.64 ERA) and Brett Tomko and his sub-4.00 ERA

Schmidt's a key. When the others regress, he's going to need to be there to off-set that. If he's not, it's going to be hard to stay above .500 IMO.

Yanks 2-1

D-backs 1-0 over Mets.

You know what I'm gonna start saying i'm 5'9 1/2 why not! "they" do it all the time.

ps i'm 5'7 1/2 :o)

Unless and until you have some numbers backing this up, I wouldn't go around making broad statements like that. SLG and OBP correlate very strongly to runs scored. Smallball generally doesn't.

I prefer women's beach volleyball over any other kind of volleyball.

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/clubs/ip_index.jsp?cid=t574&mc=info

Surprised to see Cain get rocked that badly.

Did anybody else catch The Dugout's (actually really rather tasteful) tribute to the late Josh Hancock?

http://dugout.progressiveboink.com/archive/jon115.html

The typo is, I should have amended "power" to "home run power," since Perry's point was that the Dodgers aren't going anywhere unless they hit more home runs. Better?

new kershaw article.

Sacramento Top 8th

Pitcher Change: Yhency Brazoban replaces Spike Lundberg.
Antonio Perez walks.
Charles Thomas pops out to shortstop Tony Abreu.
Kevin Melillo grounds into double play, shortstop Tony Abreu to second baseman Sergio Garcia to first baseman James Loney. Antonio Perez out at 2nd.

The Dodgers lead the NL with a .276 average last year. We were second to the Mets in runs scored. But we've added Fredo in center, which hurts our OBP and SLG. Right now, we rank 13th in MLB in OBP, 16th in BA, and 26th in Slugging.

Our pitching isn't going to be this good forever, and our offense is a real problem. We need more boom boom, and we don't have it. I do not have a good feeling about June, July, and August.

I agree our offense needs more boom, though not necessarily much of an uptick in homeruns. I do still visualize mssrs. Kemp and/or Loney coming into play at some point. That may sound naiive, but I've had visions, man, visions! They don't lie.

Since the interview went on for about 5 minutes, here is some of the highlights.

WC: How good is Clayton Kershaw?

LW: Special talent, makeup is very good. Really bright, confident not cocky, grounded, brought up the right way.
Physical size, he is 6'4" 220, power arm, 90-97 mph fastball, good curveball and change, good feel for the game. Provided he stays healthy, he will move pretty fast.

WC: Do you tend go for velocity or command of a lot of pitches or body type, when it comes to pitching prospects?

LW: Does not think it is an either or when it comes to velocity or command, starts off looking for a Roger Clemens/Randy Johnson type, good mechanics, looks for big strong arm action, good secondary pitch (curve, slider, split). Feel and command of the strike zone, look at their makeup.

WC: What is makeup?

LW: People misinterpret makeup as being the nicest guy in the world (someone to marry your daughter). Personality and makeup are not the same things. Do they work hard, do they get good grades. You want them to be aggressive and hardworking but they can have different personalities. Looking for quality people.

WC: Dodgers draft at No. 20, what kind of player do you anticipate seeing at that pick.

LW: I think it will be a good player; it would be funny to take a college player since we get accused of only taking high school players but we will end up taking a high end, high ceiling guys.

One day, his power ran off with another guy, hit young Slappy in the eye.

Slappy didn't like that...He said "Imon get that boy..."

Slappy Mcgee, went 0 for 3, only to find 9 million dollars...

We are 12th in the NL in OPS but our division rivals are 8th, 9th, 10th and 13th. The Giants have the highest OPS in the division and the fewest runs scored per game.

I expect to see improvements in offense at SS as Furcal works through his spring training and at 3B as either Betemit finds his game or LaRoche finds his. I think the 1st one of those two guys to start hitting will get most of the AB's at 3B.

I think our hitting will improve and our starting pitching will fall off a bit. Barring serious injuries we should be in the hunt all year and I think we are as well positioned to survive injuries as anyone.

Because of what we did in the offseason coupled with what we have at AAA I don't know what we would be looking for. I can't imagine us trading for a LFer or a CFer because we just spent a bunch of money for new guys there. We have a 3B man at AAA that OPSed .950 at Vegas last year.

If we can get a superstar for any of those positions we might look at it but nobody is giving up superstars for Hendrickson.