It s Getting Comical
If you don t laugh about it, you would probably cry, so I choose to laugh about the Dodgers woes. Some day, we will look back and say Remember when we thought they were done? During this 4-14 losing streak, the Dodgers have only have three problems: They can t pitch; They can t hit; and They can t field. Last night, the fielding was OK, so the only problems were that they could
If you don’t laugh about it, you would probably cry, so I choose to laugh about the Dodgers woes. Some day, we will look back and say “Remember when we thought they were done?”
During this 4-14 losing streak, the Dodgers have only have three problems:
- They can’t pitch;
- They can’t hit; and
- They can’t field.
Last night, the fielding was OK, so the only problems were that they could not hit or pitch. It’s getting better! Mookie is showing signs of breaking out with two hits, including a home run. I will not call anyone who disagrees with me a moron or an idiot. I would just say they have bad luck when it comes to thinking. When you resort to name-calling, it only solidifies the fact that your argument is so shallow that you feel you have to resort to slander to obfuscate your shortcomings. I wonder…
Julio Urias did not look good last night. He wasn’t nibbling – he was just getting hit, so they brought in Gas Can Kelly who looked like he had never pitched… ever! I am not taking anything away from one game, but this will pass at some point. It is a malaise that seems to envelop every aspect of the team. Maybe they gave them the wrong vaccine. I just wish this hurries up and gets over with. Tonight Clayton gets a chance to redeem himself from his last bad outing.
Minor League Overview
- OKC was beaten like a rented mule, 15-6. Estevez and Raley both hit HR and Peters was 2-5. A bunch of batting practice pitchers were cannon fodder. Move on nothing to see here, folks.
- Tulsa beat the Sod Poodles 12-3. Mike Busch was 2-4 with a BB and 3 runs scored (hitting #2). Devin Mann was 3-4 with 4 RBI, and Jeren Kendall was 2-4 with 4 RBI, including a 3-run HR in the first inning. Varland, Zuniga, Ochsenbein, and Washington pitched 6 scoreless innings, but Rooney gave up 3 Runs and 3 BB in his 3 IP while striking out 5.
- Great Lakes lost to the Dayton Dragons 9-5. Pages was 2-4 with 2 RBI and 2 runs scored. Pages, Outman, Vargas, and Ward all doubled. Clayton Beeter pitched the first inning with 2 K’s, not giving up a run, but Gamboa, Little, Widell, and Mokma gave up 9 runs in the other 8 innings.
- Rancho Cucamonga did not lose and they did not play. The game was postponed due to rain.
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Disagree, not disagreeable
Corey Seager – Fans impression each offseason:
2015 – The next A-Rod! Can’t wait for him to win Rookie of the Year next season.
2016 – ROY! He’s the best shortstop in baseball.
2017 – Another great season and a Silver Slugger to boot
2018 – Those injuries are bad, hope he can make a comeback. C-Ya Manny, you suck!
2019 – Good but not his former self, will he ever be the same? We need to trade him and Lux for Lindor.
2020 – World Series MVP! He’s back, we better lock him up long term. Thank God we didn’t trade him for Lindor.
2021 – 33 games into the season – He sucks, can’t play short. Screw him, let’s get Story.
Why are we talking next year? 33 games played, 129 games remain.
There’s no way to build a team to endure this much injury, period. Mookie is horrible right now, I know he had a hit and a knock, but the knock came after the game was already over. Seager is also horrible. Rios went down recently with injury that he had been playing through. Perhaps that’s what’s going on with Mookie and Seager and maybe others. Now Pollock’s down with a hammy. It makes you wonder if their plan to bring guys along slowly in Spring is backfiring.
I’m thinking that probably all other teams will have to endure similar problems this year. Maybe all these injuries are bad luck. Maybe it’s bad training. Maybe guys took a little more time off in the offseason. We can only speculate, but at some point you have to be judged by results, and the results are really bad right now.
But, to think the talent on this defending World Championship team is so horrible that you have to blow it up or make major changes is mind numbing. Who the F cares if Corey needs a position change? It ain’t gonna happen this year with Muncy and JT entrenched at the corners. No one complained about his defense last year. Not until after the season and people saw some BullCrap DRS numbers. His defense will get better when the entire team stops playing so tight.
Is see a new person every night that people are complaining about. Basically the whole team is playing like crap. There’s one solution and we all know what that it. Oh, he runs a good clubhouse, he’s great with the players, but everyone has always questioned his many mistakes. He sucks, plain and simple. Other managers play chess while Doc is stacking checkers on top of eachother like they’re legos and using the board as a placemat for his lunch.
And lastly, you can have a difference of opinion with the writers on this blog, but present some facts to back up your argument. Present some reason. They may still choose to ignore it like they did with me when I presented the case that the Dodgers will blow past the salary cap any time they want. But, don’t be a name calling A-hole.
Truth Hurts, you come off as being mean spirited, full of opinion and seldom present facts and stats to backup your claims. Do better or go away.
Mark, I like your style, but if you wants others on this site to not call each other names, you have to lead by example. I’ve been guilty of this myself, but I’m trying.
Ken Rosenthal – “The Athletic – 5/5/21 “For all the talk of rules changes in the sport — the need for more action, more offense, a faster pace of play — Major League Baseball’s biggest problem may be keeping players healthy. A new collective-bargaining agreement presumably will address some of the sport’s aesthetic and competitive issues. But no one in the sport has figured out how to reduce injuries, and the return to 162 games in 2021 from 60 in ’20 represents a particular challenge.”
It’s not just the Dodgers. Loss of playing time, league-wide, is staggering. And fans aren’t interested in watching understudies play.
I’ve talked a lot lately about pitch counts and arm health, in general, being an inexact science. Lots of new technology and theory but no solid medical studies and conclusions.
I think player physical health in general is an area which needs serious study and revision. I’m going to speculate with no credentials to do so. Just what I see.
I have no personal knowledge of what the players do with their trainers in season or off. (not in about 50 years anyway) They can look fit as hell coming into spring training. I hear they lift in season to keep strong. What else do they do? I don’t know.
I have watched spring training workouts when they let us in and pre-game warm ups and conditioning in season.
So, here I go – compared to other sports, baseball players don’t work very hard physically and never practice at full
speed. Ever watch PFP’s and drills in SP? Everybody goes 1/4 speed. Fear of injuries keep players from practicing at game speed.
I don’t know what happens in the morning prior to spring training games on the back fields? I only see BP. But have you watched pre-game stuff in the outfield throughout the season? There’s stretching, sometimes with bands and stuff, for a brief period and then running. Running consists of imitating a steal off the foul line and a jump and semi sprint for maybe 10 yards, max, before pulling up and jogging a few more yards. A few of those with lots of bullshitting in between, and that’s the running. When players have to go game speed, you can hear the hamstrings going off like guitar strings. Compare this running with what rrack athletes go through in a running work out. (I know, JT isn’t a sprinter, but………)
Fungos are hit during BP with players going 1/2 to 3/4 speed for the most part. I never see outfielders throwing to bases. No such thing anymore and “infield / outfield”. Players are busy in the clubhouse.
So, during a long season that’s hard on a body anyway, do players do too much or too little? I don’t know. But somebody needs to. What’s being done isn’t working. And I think this problem needs way more research and a rethink.
Kike’ Hernandez is on th IL and Joc isn’t hitting. Guess they still consider themselves Dodgers.
I’ve got to wonder if AF signs Seager. Lux has already played one game at SS. If he continues to hit he replaces Seager with Busch taking over at second.
First it was May going down… That really hurt…
I’ve played enough games to understand that crapola like this will happen.. Like I’ve said a couple times before, head out and find a batting cage… Dial it up to 80 and start ripping… And that machine doesn’t have movement… Baseball remains the toughest game to play/succeed..
I’d never thought I’d say this, but here goes… If Seager is talking with his agent or the Blue about $$$ – Let the Trade talks begin…
This game is all about the Benjamins…
Theralten – great words on the Seager conversion to 3B.. Anybody remember Garvey at 3B???
It’s less about Seager’s hitting than his defense. He’s gone from average to mediocre to weak.
And getting picked off… ugh.
Not sure what the solution is….though Lux and Taylor are inside the clubhouse already.
A while back, I was telling a friend the Dodgers should trade for Andrelton Simmons (this was before free agency) and move Seager to either 3B or 1B. Conventional wisdom has long envisioned Seager moving on from SS–so why not replace him with a gold glover who might bat 8th.
My friend argued that Simmons can’t hit (not really true), but if you like advanced stats, Simmons has more than190 “defensive runs saved,” placing him third behind only Ozzie Smith and Mark Belanger. And he’s adding to that number.
Oh well.
Everybody assumes seager can play third base. That is not a given. What we do know is he is a subpar ss. He is only in the lineup for his bat and he is not hitting. I agree with mark that he will hit but 300 is a long shot.Averages are so deceiving. If u hit 150 for 4 months and 450 for 2 the average might be decent but it depends on what month it is as to what hitter you have. I have felt all along that seager would not be re-signed. Why else would the Dodgers have been rumored after lindor over and over. Perhaps AF does not c seager as a future ss but seager does. I would say the giants will be a player. If we could get in the playoffs and we are in the month he is hitting we might benefit before he leaves. A lot of if’s though.
Seager should his get head out of his ass and stop worrying about free agency and what the payday will be. Some moron owner will pay him top dollar.If he doesn’t agree to change positions,the Dodgers should not be involved and shouldn’t sign him. The DH will be instituted in 2022 and he can move to 3rd or 1st. Turner can DH.He is killing the team defensively right now.If he is hurt now,and he won’t go on the IL,he is only hurting his stats for free agency and the team. He is not the same player he was in 2020. Something’s up!