Rant & Rave Monday
Joey Gallo – Gold Glove Defender in LF, Elite Arm, Excellent Base Runner, 1.038 OPS as a Dodger. He was 2-3 yesterday with a Walk, outstanding catch, laser throw, and impressive baserunning. When a RHP is throwing, you can’t keep Gallo off the field… based upon what I have seen…
- Joey Gallo – Gold Glove Defender in LF, Elite Arm, Excellent Base Runner, 1.038 OPS as a Dodger. He was 2-3 yesterday with a Walk, outstanding catch, laser throw, and impressive baserunning. When a RHP is throwing, you can’t keep Gallo off the field… based upon what I have seen so far.
- The Dodgers Bullpen – The Dodgers are now tied for second in Bullpen ERA behind the Yankees and the Astros, who both are at 3.01. The Dodgers are at 3.05, and with all the reinforcements coming, they just might be #1 before the season is over.
- Ryan Pepiot – Best start ever. Maybe he stays as a starter. If he keeps the walks down, he’s a force.
- Cody Bellinger – Just when you have him dead and buried, he crawls out of the grave. He’s not going anywhere… this season. Thompson is a good CF’er, but Bellinger owns CF!
- Trayce Thompson – He has been a great find… no question, but he’s not hitting .400 – he’s hitting .278. His career BA is near where Cody is hitting RIGHT NOW! Maybe Trayce has finally figured it out at age 31. I hope so, but there is a real likelihood of regression.
- Max Muncy – He has a 20-game hitting streak now, but a few days ago, fans wanted to ship him to the Arctic Circle. My, how times change!
- FLASH: Craig Kimbrel is unhittable with a 7-run lead!
- The Dodgers own Sandy Alcantra, and maybe that helped improve Tony Gonsolin’s Cy Young hopes. If Gonsolin can win 18 to 20 games and keep his ERA, WHIP, etc., close to where they are now, then Tony could be Cy. The fact that Alcantra pitches for a bad team hurts him!
- I am headed to Las Vegas this afternoon (Cannabis Show) and will not be posting maybe until Sunday as my son gets married on Saturday. Hopefully, Bear, Evan, and Bulldogs, etc., will have it covered. I will post it for them.
- Look at this: Dodger Starter’s ERA: May – 0.00/Heaney – 1.77/Gonsolin – 2.12/Urias – 2.40/ Kershaw – 2.64/Anderson – 2.73. All six have sub-3.00 ERAs. Has that ever happened before? I know, White and Buehler also were starters as is Pepiot!
- Remember when the Yankees were the best team in baseball with a .700 PCT? Now the Dodgers have a .700 Winning Percentage, and the Yankees have a .607.
- I feel bad for Carson Fulmer… he has improved… but not enough.
- Blake Treinen pitched a clean inning last night and struck out the side, so I guess you could call it a perfect inning.
- Miguel Vargas keeps knocking… 2-4 today and is now hitting .296.
- James Outman has really sucked since going back to OKC… as in “tanked!”
- I am going to discontinue the Future Dodgers Down on the Farm Coverage. I don’t have enough bandwidth. If someone wants to volunteer to do so, let me know. Otherwise, there are lots of places to get that info, including right on the front page of this blog. I still will note outstanding performances.
- Who will get healthy and who won’t? We should see the Bazooka this week. Maybe Kershaw and Treinen in a week or so… then it’s a crapshoot: Almonte? Gonzalez? Duffy? Kahnle? Of the last four, I think we will see 50% of them. Who? I have no clue! If they make it back, how effective will they be? That’s the bigger question.
- Carry on…
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Discussion (50)
Disagree, not disagreeable
Muncys streak is an ‘on base streak’, not a hitting streak. Great to see Pepiot have that great game but it was against a terrible hitting team.