Slow Start Says Who?
Some fans thought the Dodgers would miss the almost 70 HR they lost in three players I can t seem to remember who they were. Ha! The team is on pace to hit 696 HR. They might cool off a bit. (eyes rolling) The outlook after the first four games are promising, but we played the Little Sisters of the Poor and will continue with the Littler Sisters of the Poorer
Some fans thought the Dodgers would miss the almost 70 HR they lost in three players… I can’t seem to remember who they were. Ha! The team is on pace to hit 696 HR. They might cool off a bit. (eyes rolling) The outlook after the first four games are promising, but we played the Little Sisters of the Poor and will continue with the Littler Sisters of the Poorer tonight.
There have been a lot of interesting things happening. Half of the bullpen looks terrible, but it’s way too early to pronounce it a failure. The offense looks very solid. They have scored a lot of runs and yesterday staged a come from behind win. We know they are versatile and while they have a knack for the long ball, they are also delivering more clutch hits. Many of the players look to be shortening their swing with two strikes.
The Athletic has a great read on the new Dodger hitting approach today. I won’t print much, but it is a good read by Pedro Moura and discusses the Dodgers increased focus on bunting, limiting player access to the batting cages and the fact that the Dodgers scored 42 runs in a four game series, an LA record!
I have been on suicide watch since Duke got beat by Michigan State, but the Dodgers success has eased the pain. We just can’t get all happy over beating like the Dirt Bags. Tonight we get look at our LH Ace-in-Waiting, Young Julio. He is ready to go 5 or 6 innings and he’s going to be hard to limit. Striker Buehler is just building innings slowly. They want him to be fresh in October. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
P.S, I am officially announcing that I am renouncing my support of Friedman and have officially become a Cincinnati Reds fan.
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Discussion (74)
Disagree, not disagreeable
Welcome to LA again, Joe Kelly!
Joe Kelly so far sucks eggs
Will age finally start to slow Buster Posey down this year? The Gints are banking on him to punish the Dodgers and keep them from making the WS if it’s the last thing they do
Heard on DodgerTalk this morning, Vasseghe and Colleti were talking, and Uncle Ned said that Kelly was very pedestrian with the Sahx during the regular season last year, but was unhittable in the play-offs. He mentioned that when he talked to Freidman a couple of days ago that he said they got Freese, Kelly, and Pollock for October. Kelly might drive us nuts during the season, but I am glad he’s in our bullpen come play-off time.
Kelly is currently my least favorite player
BP fail again. Kelly and Alexander not getting it done
now I see the need to have Strip and Urias in the pen.
Calling Mr Kimbrel. Mr Kimbrel
Disappointing loss but I guess you have to take it on the chin.
There’s always tomorrow.
AC nailed it when he questioned the entire approach to ST and the pitching. The reluctance to “stretch” out the starting pitchers beyond 5 innings has required Doc to use the BP far too early in games #2 and 5 (Stripling and Urias) and with Buehler only pitching 4 innings Sunday, the BP usage has been woefully bad and the production by Kelly, Baez, Alexander has been equally horrible.
At this rate the BP will “gassed”by May 1st. Kelly’s early season performance has me very very concerned.
I think Joe Kelly is baseballs version of the Manchurian candidate.
The hope that Joe Kelly has a repeat of his WS performance without a solid contribution during the season is far fetched and without any redeeming quality, IMO. He has looked woefully unprepared, so far. It’s a long season and it will remain to be seen if he can get it together, otherwise, our BP problems will be biting us for a while. We did see Baez have a bounce back game and the rest of the BP did quite OK.
The Dodger offense was sluggish. 2 HR’s, both solo, are not going to usually win a game. I am still waiting for meaningful contributions from Seager and Freese. Both players are not anywhere near where their potential is. It’s a shame to waste Urias’ start like this. Like Stripling, they both should have come away with the win. Joe Kelly needs to sit for a spell. BP is rested. Let’s see Ferguson get Kelly’s innings. They couldn’t be worse. Kelly, 2 games, 7 hits, 6 earned runs, ERA of 18! Keep Kelly and Stewart off the mound and use Fergie, for now. To continue early on losing games by the BP is disheartening. Maybe also time for a call up and get one of the young guns in while Strip and Urias are in the starting rotation.