Are the Dodgers Doomed?
NOTE: We are running two blogs today. This one and the MiLB Blog by Jeff.
The six losses in a row were embarrassing, but last night's game was more than embarrassing. It was humiliating! The Dodgers were 11-0 against Merrill Kelley, who allowed nearly six runs a game against them. Last night, he held them to one run. Then the Dodgers got two runs off Taylor Clarke, who makes $1.5 million, and Brandyn Garcia, who makes the MLM minimum. After Roki Sasaki pitched a solid game, giving up just 2 runs in 6 innings, Edguardo Henriquez (MLB Minimum guy too) shut down the D-Backs in the 7th inning... with the Dodgers clinging to a 3-2 lead.
In the 8th inning, Tanner Scott ($16 million) needed 24 pitches to retire the side with bases loaded. Then, Edwin Diaz (best known for cockfighting and his 11.00 ERA) and his $14 million salary came in and promptly gave up a 2-run home run to win the game for Kevin Ginkel ($2.7 million). For one, I am ashamed to be a Dodger fan. The Dodgers were beaten like rented mules! Seven losses in a row is pathetic.
I liked what Andrew Friedman did in Tampa Bay... he did more with less. When he came to LA, he started out doing the same thing, but over the last few years, the Dodgers have become "pigs" and pigs get slaughtered. Andrew Friedman is now doing less with more! Here is how the Dodgers rank against every other team in baseball with the Luxury Tax included:
The Dodgers' payroll and Luxury Tax are more than double what the D-Backs happen to be. Maybe you would enjoy watching the Lions and the Christians in ancient times in an arena, but I'm not into that. The Dodgers are pigs and pigs get slaughtered. Let's look at what they are paying certain players:
Mookie Betts .233 BA/.682 OPS - $30.4 Million
Kyle Tucker .244 BA/.719 OPS - $57.1 Million
Teoscar Hernandez .252 BA/.727 OPS - $19.9 Million
Blake Snell - 0-1/12.00 ERA on IL - $31.3 Million
Tyler Glasnow - 3 Wins, on IL - $27.3 Million
Edwin Diaz - 1-1/11.00 ERA - $21.1 Million
You have to be a certified moron to pay that amount of money to the above-listed players and get such awful production. I hate it! That's more than the annual payrolls of 16 teams! This is why we likely are not going to see a lot of baseball next year. This has to change. Even if the Dodgers were winning, I'd be embarrassed! But the fact that we are losing is also embarrassing, and it proves we are stupid. Come on, man!
Discussion (10)
Disagree, not disagreeable
Am I the only one who thinks Carrol would have caught the home run that Eranado hit? It looked like Teo’s feet barely left the ground.
I like it MT....some emotion and frustration and no more "rose colored BS." We might put it together and win a 3-peat and we might not. Either way ownership needs to instruct AF to get younger and no more bat shit crazy contracts to broken down players. Snell, Tucker, Glasnow, Diaz, and the third year given to Teo come to mind as some wild ass contracts. It has to cause AF to question whether Freddie gets an extension. Did we need Diaz, did we need Tucker, did it take a third year to secure Teo? Did we need Keekay? At this rate I would have loved to see what JDP, Sirota, Tibbs, Erhard, etc. could do. Notice how a young nimble, quick and athletic RF like Corbin jumped at the fence and took a HR away from Edman, while our RF lumbers and stumbles and looks wretched playing the field. By the way could someone please get Ohtani a message that reminds him he has bad knee preventing him from pitching meaning he may lost a half step and to quit trying to stretch a long single into a double and quit trying to steal a base.
Probably not doomed, but borderline mediocre! Base running. Situational hitting. Bullpen(walks). Catching (injuries). Lack of power. And to me,my biggest pet peeve is? Refusing to take a walk! Especially when a pitcher can’t find the strike zone! These are getting paid to win. Bases loaded , 2-0 counts, and they never seem to take. I know they can all hit, but the main objective is to win the damn game! A bases loaded walk scores a run the last time I checked. It’s a little different if they are up 2-4 runs, but they’re struggling to drive in runs! For goodness sakes, take the walk if the pitcher wants to give it to you! Love Teo, but I hope he isn’t back next year. Now how will this affect Andy? His mentor, his buddy, his rock. I don’t know but I think we’re all a little tired of Teo swinging and missing so darn much. Station to station , no steals, bad choices on the bases, not even looking at the base coaches! I’m sure it will pass, (it better!) . Diaz is very cocky for a guy who can’t get anybody out! Maybe Phillips would have been a better choice last night? I know , that’s why they signed Diaz, but geez, guy can’t throw strikes, and when he does? Long gone!!! Tanner ain’t the “ the great” Scott at the moment either. Henriquez was sharp last night. Can we expect more of that? I hope so. I feel better now. Hopefully we all feel better tonight!
We will win the next two against the Snakes in the Desert.
It has always been my opinion,it's NOT my money,so I DON'T care what they spend each year.It is the long term contracts that really bother me. Most of Dodger owners are multi-millionaires or billionaires and they ONLY want to win and DON'T care about luxury taxes because the Dodgers are grossing a billionaire in revenue. The major issue I have is,we are NOT getting any younger on the roster which will be a problem in 2027 and beyond.