Be With Your Family, Freddie
Our thoughts and prayers are with Freddie Freeman and his family after the hospitalization of his three-year-old son, Maximus. I have been very blessed in that none of my kids were ever hospitalized for anything serious except for once when my youngest son, at age five, had a…
Our thoughts and prayers are with Freddie Freeman and his family after the hospitalization of his three-year-old son, Maximus. I have been very blessed in that none of my kids were ever hospitalized for anything serious except for once when my youngest son, at age five, had a concussion playing basketball and was unconscious for about 12 hours in the hospital. That was the worst feeling… ever… to see your child lying there comatose. I’ll never forget that feeling. Happily, he woke up and woke me up as I was sleeping in the bed beside him. I understand how you feel, Freddie, and your teammates will tell you, “We got this.”
I was scared to death when he was unconscious.
I think that the Dodgers will likely place him on the Family Emergency List, which would require him to miss at least the next three days. They could call up Andre Lipcius or Ryan Ward, but that would require opening up a roster spot on the 40-man.
Graterol, Grove, Dreyer, and Feyereisen all pitched scoreless innings after Walker Buehler. BTW, 25-year-old LHP Jack Dreyer has 54 strikeouts in 39.1 IP at OKC. He has a 1.37 ERA and a 0.86 WHIP and has walked just 7 batters. After Tommy John, his velocity has ticked up to 96 and he is a force! BA says this about him:
“Dreyer missed most of the 2019 season because of a shoulder injury, but was excellent in his four 2020 starts before the coronavirus-mandated shutdown. Dreyer was 2-1, 3.12 with 23 strikeouts in 21.2 innings. Dreyer doesn’t have a clear plus pitch, but his slider will flash above-average. His 90-93 mph average fastball has enough oomph to make hitters respect it. His slow curveball is a little big and loopy and his changeup needs further refinement.”
Jack is another bullpen option for the Dodgers. Here’s more about him:
Walker Buehler went four innings and did not fare well. It should take him a couple of more games to regain his velocity (if he can). This is just a process, and we have no clue what will happen. I am not counting on him, and neither are the Dodgers… but you never know…
Over the next couple of weeks, the Dodgers should be getting Brusdar Graterol , Michael Grove and Ryan Brasier back from the injured list. That will be a huge boost for a Dodgers’ bullpen that has looked like it has been out of gas for weeks. Then there is Jack Dreyer! The team is also quietly optimistic that Yoshi Yamamoto will also be back as he is re-building the strength in his shoulder after two months of inactivity. He is currently throwing from up to 200 feet.
I feel that Tommy Pham is an option, but I can’t see giving up huge prospect collateral for a top player. Houston is a hot team. They started the season 12-24 and are now 54-49 and in first place in the AL West. With Betts, Muncy, Freeman, Rojas, and Taylor out, some others are going to have to step up to salvage the series. I look for the Dodgers to put Freddie on the Family Emergency list and call someone up… or trade for Tommy Pham today.
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If the Padres get Vlad Guerrero at trade deadline to be there first baseman and a starting pitcher watchout they could catch the Dodgers.
What the Dodgers should do get Flarethy and I know some might not like this but Scherzer okay playoff experience. That would give you this Glasnow Flarethy Scherzer Kershaw Stone and Omamoto then pitching set. On the batters side Issace Paredes to play 3B until Muncy comes back get Pham and Dejong SS from whitesoxs okay . That would put Pham in LF and DeJong would be a shortstop. Moving then Kiki to play second base until Betts returns because you traded Lux to the whitesox. Now we need a centerfielder so they trade with the Nats to get Lane Thomas and Dylan Florio from them. That would make Lane Thomas now the new centerfielder. That’s what I think they should do. Because these teams are not giving up huge talented players in the trades made so far. So, why would the Dodgers give away a bunch of guys. And for one guy when they need about 4 or 5 new guys on this team. Prayers for Freddie and his son that he gets better.
I’ll try and do a better job tonight, folks. Kind of hard wheeling out 3 rookie starting pitchers in the hornets nest at Minute Maid. That said, doesn’t matter who is pitching if you can’t get hits and score runs. The bottom of this lineup is atrocious.
Hunter Feduccia is on his way to Houston.
Passing on Crochet! No DePaula in package for Robert jr.
We just can’t do nothing with our OF as bad as it is. We have to get a CF’er and I’m taking my chances on Robert jr to rebound coming to a contender. The potential is there. And we are overloaded with young pitching that won’t make our staff.
Nothing tougher than having a child in the hospital. I remember those days well. Prayers for the family.
The fact that Betts is working out at short seems to indicate a very hot Gavin Lux will continue to hold down second.
The Dodgers continue to say they are looking at impact players. But, it’s not like the old days. The new playoff format has created a trade deadline mess with all these teams having or thinking they have a chance to make a run into the fall. There are realistically just a few teams and fewer players available at the deadline. Most aren’t real impact players.
Will Skubal or Crocket actually be traded? If they are the price will be incredibly high. You really want to avoid the trade deadline nonsense and the Dodgers put themselves in great position to do that in the winter. Then injuries happened and here we go again. I still say, the Dodgers are suffering too many injuries to pitchers.. Another one just went down.
What about hitters? You can talk about Robert, but it’s not exactly like he’s setting the league on fire. Most of these trade candidates have very pedestrian stats. Of course you can look at previous seasons and think that maybe a player catches fire after a trade. I would pass. There are durability issues.
As to pitchers, Fedde and Flaherty might make some sense. Much more likely to be traded than the younger hurlers. Another bullpen arm is a must.
Maybe Pham makes sense.
Honestly not certain where the Dodgers go from here. Maybe they make a deal for a player who isn’t being talked about. An old fashioned trade. We’ll see.
The best thing that could happen is that injured players return healthy and ready to go.
Ferris has mound presence
6.5 game lead on SD with a rather weak line-up playing until we get some reinforcements back. Prayers with the Freeman family.
Mookie, Muncy, Brasier, Grove, Yamamoto and Graterol might be all the Dodgers do at the trade deadline. If Yamamoto , Graterol and Brasier are good to go, it very well might be enough pitching and Mookie and Muncy might be enough offense. Seen enough of Biggio and it certainly seems as if Pages and Vargas are not ready for primetime. If Lux continues to hit does Mookie go to RF? Is Miggy Ro’s injury a season (or career) ender?
Entering the Dog Days of Summer with a SP staff that includes Wrobleski and Ryan is not what I envisioned at the start of the year. They’re good, maybe even going to be great, but it scares the heck out of me seeing rookie SP heading down the stretch. Stone might be gassed and need a couple of skipped starts to re-set and rest.
Anxious to see what AF and BG will do at the deadline but it is clear to me we need some additional talent whether that means pitchers or position players coming off the IL or acquired via the trade market. Biggio, Pages, Kike, Ahmed etc. won’t cut it.
Robert has 3 hits in his last 19 at bats. He has struck out 12 times in those at bats. Pham is 4 for his last 18. He has struck out 5 times. Rooker is 4 for his last 20 with 1 K. He has 3 homers and 5 driven in. Lane Thomas has his BA up to .250. Rooker is hitting .288 and has 72 driven in. Even with his warts as an outfielder, I would stick him in left every day and keep Teo in right. Pages has sunk like the Titanic. Vargas is not very good anywhere you stick him on the field. And right now, his bat is not going all that well either. Oh yeah, Rooker has 25 bombs. Pages is not ready for prime time just yet. He hasn’t hit a home run in well over a month. You need more than that from your centerfielder. As structured, this is not a Championship lineup. They will be lucky to make it out of August in first place unless they add some bats. Does not seem to me that Robert Jr or Pham are a viable solution. Thomas and Rooker might help.
Prayers for FF´s son! When you have children you know what he and his wife are going threw.
I agree with Blaker Harris. Get Robert jun. to play cf. Biggest hole on the team.#
If they can not get that needed frontline starter I would go after Tanner Scott hard. Built a tough as nails shutdown bullpen. That formula has worked in the recent past rather well in postseason play. October baseball is far different from April -September. Have to be able to manufacture runs when you need to, got to have solid starting pitching for 5 innings and then a shutdown bullpen.
Lux continues to hit well. Two more hits , one even vs a tough LHP.
In the minors Rushing with yet another HR.
Rushing, Knack plus another lower level prospect for Robert jun.
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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