Rant Rave Monday
RVS gets all the glory (10 runs a game average) at least until tomorrow. The Dodgers are undefeated! Print the tickets! If you listened to the Andrew Friedman interview, you should never say the Dodgers want to be an all or nothing team. Why no MRI on Kershaw? Because you don t want to know La, La, La, La, La, La, La fingers in ears> DJ Peters has added bulk and
- RVS gets all the glory… (10 runs a game average) at least until tomorrow.
- The Dodgers are undefeated! Print the tickets!
- If you listened to the Andrew Friedman interview, you should never say the Dodgers want to be an “all or nothing” team.
- Why no MRI on Kershaw? Because you don’t want to know… “La, La, La, La, La, La, La” <fingers in ears>
- DJ Peters has added bulk and is noticeably bigger and stronger. The fact that he blasted two home runs does not go unnoticed. Can he cut down on his strikeouts… that’s the question!
- Edwin Rios has not showed out with the bat (yet) and I think his swing is a little slow, but he looks like he might be able to handle 3B. It’s early…
- Dennis Santana is the Dodgers’ Future Closer! What filthy stuff! They will probably keep him on a starters routine, but he’s a bullpen guy!
- I remain convinced that Russ Martin will be the Comeback Player of the Year and have a very good season. Wouldn’t it be something if he made the All-Star team? Before you gag… I said the same about Matt Kemp.
- Gonsolin and Ruiz are both very good athletes. Exceptional, actually! Ruiz may be up later this year… the same with Gonsolin.
- I wonder if Omar Estevez is a Robert Van Socyoc disciple? That HR was textbook “launch angle and stay in the zone.“
- Mitch White and Dustin May looked very healthy… and ready to rumble.
- If you believe that “Andrew Friedman just is cheap and won’t go over the Luxury Tax Threshold”, then you have something in common with a bag of hammers. Just WOW!
- I am headed to LA for the rest of the week (not baseball related) but should be in touch with the internet. Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Temecula on Tuesday, Valencia on Wednesday and Buena Park on Thursday. I’m sure there will be come food and fun as we visit our vendors. My VP of Sales and Marketing and my son are my roadies.
- Man… I am missing the NFL Scouting Combine in Indy this week!
- Finally, while I do not think it will happen, I would not be surprised to see Farhan Zaidi sign Byrce Harper.
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You were the first one I thought about, when I saw the news about the Dodgers and Harper.
Because I know you were holding back hard, until Harper signed with another team.
Everyone here knows how I stress hitting when runners are in scoring position, and the last 4 years of Harper’s 7 year career, he has been excellent in these situations,when it comes to average and OPS.
Kershaw still hurting after Mondays session. Roberts starting to sound concerned. Hmmm..
Subtracting Kershaw will not be a problem for the Dodgers. Buehler, Ryu, & Hill, move up a notch. Ferguson, Urias, Stripling & Maeda will plug in to the other 2 slots while Kershaw sorts out his problems. Another possibility would be going after one of the existing free agent pitchers, but I don’t think they want to go that way. They seem to want to promote from their home-grown ranks. I’ve no problem with that as long as they don’t procrastinate getting someone else ready to step in. Too much attention is paid to Kershaw as the savior of this team. He has never been the savior in spite of the hype surrounding him. Good pitcher who has choked in the post season. That’s just the way it is.
I don’t know Bryce Harper well but we hung out and played video games in Las Vegas before the start of free agency. I feel the same way now as I did then. He wants to play for the Dodgers. It’s now up to the Dodgers to make the numbers work.
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) February 26, 2019
Affairs. Hamchuck does not engage in affairs outside his marriage unless the Mrs. gives her consent 🙂
that’s a joke. Anyway, considering how AF has about signing FA’s the past couple years, we should not expect to see our beloved Harper (another pun) in LF this year. 🙂