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Some names you know, some names you don't, but come March, they'll all be part of history – the Florida-China-Arizona Spring Training Extravaganza. From the Dodgers:
Right-handed pitchers Tanyon Sturtze, Mike Koplove and Brian Falkenborg headline the group and will be joined by fellow right-handers Rick Asadoorian, Fernando Desgue and Greg Jones. Left-handed hurler Brian Shackelford, outfielder John-Ford Griffin, first-baseman John Lindsey, infielder Angel Chavez and catcher Danny Ardoin are the others coming to Vero Beach, joining catcher Rene Rivera, pitcher Chan-Ho Park and infielder Terry Tiffee, who were previously announced as non-roster invitees.
Sturtze, Falkenborg, Lindsey and Park have all been in the Dodger organization before - Lindsey hit 30 minor-league homers for the Dodgers last year. Sturtze, of course, was in the famous Brian Myrow trade.
*I have never seen The Amazing Race, so I don't know if it's really like that.
We may not be in a position to laugh much about that.
Assuming that we sign Kuroda, would our pitching staff look something like this?
Penny
Lowe
Bills
Schmidt
Kuroda
Loaiza
Saito
Broxton
Beimel
Seanez
Proctor
If so, what happens to Hendrickson, Kuo, and Brazaban? It is unlikely that we would go with 12 hurlers. And why are there rumors about Ned trying to obtain another reliever? Makes no sense to me.
Oh man, Tanyon Sturtze?? That hurtze.
Anyway, those are all guys in the "snowball's chance in (you know where)" of making the team, but perhaps one of them will make it despite the odds.
Now that the Gnats won out over the ChiSox for Rowand, Kenny Williams may come a knocking on Ned's door for a speedy CF.
Then Kuroda, announces he will go with the Blue, and our Christmas wish will come true!
Why so?
Catcher:
Martin
Other guy
Infielders:
Loney
Kent
Nomar
Furcal
LaRoche
Abreu/Valdez/Hu/New PVL
Outfielders:
Kemp
Ethier
Pierre
Jones
That's 12 guys. Would we really add someone else?
Apparently the Dodgers have offered a one-year deal to Seanez for 2008.
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I don't think Brazoban has options left. He has on the 40-man since late 2004. Not sure how his DL time affects things though.
I don't think it matters if a player is sent down or not for option purposes. From the great Rob Neyer "Transactions Primer":
When you hear that a player is "out of options," that means he's been on the 40-man roster during three different seasons, beginning with his fourth as a pro, and to be sent down again he'll have to clear waivers.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/1999/0908/46397.html
Brazoban was on the 40-man in 2005, 2006, & 2007, meaning those were his 3 option years. I think. :)
I believe we can ask Kuo's physician, Dr. Clubber Lang, for his prediction on Kuo's arm.
Hull has a better chance to make the club if Meloan is converted to starter. I'd guess Meloan The Starter is more likely to start the season in Vegas so he can pitch in a regular rotation.
Neither Young nor Repko would presumably ever start barring injury, and I don't see Ned considering either to be a viable PH option. (Neither is old enough).
http://tinyurl.com/2k2xh4
Hope!
21 - Well, that solves the question of lefty pinch hitter.
Michael Warren sits in front of my parents at UCLA basketball games, so I used to see Cash often when he was in high school and I was going to games a lot.
I found this in an old Mariners' mailbag on MLB.com:
"Once a player is placed on the team's 40-man roster, he has three option years. A team can send a player down or call him up as many times as they want during an option year. For some players, that process is exhausted quickly, while for others, option years can remain well into a career. It is not unusual for a veteran to still have an option left if he rose quickly through an organization and stayed at the big-league level. A player with at least five years of service can refuse an option, however, and become a free agent if he wishes. Once a player is out of options, and the team wants to send him down, he must be outrighted, which also exposes him to waivers. This means another team can claim him within 72 hours. At that point, the releasing team can either pull him back or lose rights to him."
Brazoban probably has two option years left, since that will push him into the 5 years of MLB service time.
It appears Tanyon Sturtze has dibs on Dastardly Dan.
I am pretty sure Repko has options available also.
I'm not sure if rehab stints count as options, so the option ghame may not be over for two more years.
Even more reason for you to re-think the pleats.
I'm not sure they've yet been conducted, but if they were to be, studies would show that men who wear pleated pants have more kids than men who don't.
5/5/07 Activated RHP Yhency Brazoban from his Minor League rehab assignment and optioned him to Triple-A Las Vegas.
That means bye-bye, right?
I stand corrected. Brazoban was optioned on May 5, 2007, after his rehab assignment.
VICTORY!!!
A Yankee prospect flaming out after a big build up, say it ain't so!
are we in a race to trade bad cfers to the white sox?
Michael Warren sits in front of my parents at UCLA basketball games,
bhsportsguy has lots of discussion with Ray Ling who sits in front of him at Pauley Pavilion.
http://insidethedodgers.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/2006/06/dodgers_acquire.html
"More on the Hendrickson trade below...as for my "spin," I should have said that he has been one of the top lefties in the AL this season. There's no debating that, statisically. . . When he's on grass, he's pretty darn good."
http://tinyurl.com/2mjcsq
Nice one, Bob.
Howland just announced that Keefe is going to red-shirt.
Since Repko will apparently be tendered a contract, here is the OF situation:
RF - Kemp
CF - Andruw
LF - Pierre
Ethier
Young (out of options)
Repko (one option year left)
I doubt all 6 players make the 25-man, unless Delwyn is used as some sort of super utility in the OF & 2B as well.
Barring a trade, Repko is the most likely to be sent to the minors since Delwyn Young is out of options, but why would the Dodgers pay Repko $500-$600k to be the 6th OFer? Maybe Repko and Young battle in spring training for the 5th OF spot, but I'd hate to lose Young on waivers.
"why would the D's pay Repko $500-600k to be the 6th Ofer?".
Why would the D's spend multiple Mil $00000
Dollars to have Tomko/Hendricksen/Loiaza etc. to be their seventh starter. Seems a lot more excessive, although I know depth is important for starters, as we proved last year. The magnitude of this extravagance is one or two orders, for no reason I can see. One could pitch Houlton for instance at perhaps less than 500-600K.
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