The D-Bags Own the Dodgers… This Year!

So the dodgers lose to tgediamondbacks and giats in a series why do both ofvthere lineups have consistency 1 thru 9 and we have 1 thru 6 good and other 7 8,9, strikeout stirkeout strikeout that’s a problem to fix and yiu don’t have better hitters on your AAA team. That’s crazy. Your the LA Didgers yiu sound have guys ready in AAA and AA ball who can play. And not have to wait until all these guys come back and still have these four guys that cant hit on the bench. Biggio hernandez lux Barnes Heyward replace these guys at deadline or now.

like that lineup Duke!! Eliminates almost all of the platoons!

But Muncy’s progress has been “slow, to be honest,” Roberts said.

“There’s still some soreness in the oblique,” Roberts said. “He has been swinging a little bit recently. I still think it’s a slow, slow process. So outside of giving a hard timeline, which I don’t think anyone knows, it’s going to be certainly well after the All-Star break, in my opinion.”

The Dbacks owned the Dodgers when it mattered last year too.

It does seem that the Dodgers are on cruise control now, kind of slow-playing the roster by using the IL designations, DFA-types (Biggio) and “churn” to OKC in hopes of having as many key players healthy as possible for the playoffs. ( This is my impression; I’d be interested if it could quantified. )

That said, losing an MVP-calier talent like Mookie at the top of the lineup was a big blow to an offense that was already missing Max in the middle. Can we assume that Mookie and Max will return at full performance?

The uncertainty has me hoping that AF will try to win the bidding for Luis Robert Jr. and Crochet, both potential superstars. Robert is more talented than Teo and five years younger, with a team-friendly contract for 3.5 seasons. Such a talent rarely becomes available in midseason. Is Robert truly injury-prone? Maybe, but better conditioning in the Dodgers system could help. I fully agree that his game would benefit from new surroundings, especially the better teammates and a chance for a championship.

It’s hard to know what the ChiSox would want in return, except that it would be plenty. Do they already have an heir apparent for CF? If not, I think they’d much prefer Pages or Outman (maybe both) to Vargas in a deal. Outman is a year older than Robert, so they may prefer Pages, who is more suited to RF than CF.

The prospect of a true blockbuster–say, Robert + DeJong + Crochet/Fedde–could easily send 7 or 8 players to Chicago. Unlikely, but plausible. The Sox are just a good fit for a deal. DeJong would be the only “rental” in this scenario.

Will the Lux era come to an end? I think so.

He simply hasn’t performed well enough on offense to justify playing Mookie at SS instead of 2B. Miguel Rojas, who is 9 years older than Lux, has thoroughly outplayed him. It puzzles me that some Dodger fans want to move Mookie back to the OF to be able to keep the lackluster Lux in the lineup.

After Mookie and Max return, the blockbuster-enhanced lineup could look something like this:

Shohei DH

Mookie 2B

Freddie 1B

Robert CF

Max 3B

Smith C

Teo LF

Heyward/ Pages/Taylor RF

Rojas/DeJong SS

Unlikely, but plausible.

Relax everyone, this was a series in July….

We aren’t playing our best ball right now and that’s ok.

Any team in the NL west would switch places with us in a heartbeat….

It may be cruise control, but it also feels like the Dodgers don’t have the pieces to win in the playoffs — specifically solid outfielders and starting pitching. I think last year’s loss to the D-bags was a good example of how platooning past-their-prime, roll-players does not work.

In the 3-game series , the platooning of Kike/Taylor/Outman/Heyward/Peralta had 5 hits in 32 at bats (.156). My opinion is that platooning works over the course of a long season, but not in the playoffs. In Kike and Taylor, the Dodgers had two big-moment players who were handicapped by restricted playing time. I’m guessing the Dodgers felt obligated to play Heyward and Peralta, too bad they went 1-12.

To win in the playoffs, you need two SP’s who can hold the other team to 2-runs over 5/6 innings. You also need a solid #3 who can keep you in the game while your offense scores vs. the other team’s #3. The bullpen is critical too- I think this is our team’s strength. It’s hard to feel great about Glasnow and Yamamoto as our #1 and #2. If we don’t acquire an ace, I feel like we’ll be asking Stone to be a #2 due to injuries. I think either Miller or Buehler can be the #3, but they both need to work on their sliders and off-speed pitches to keep hitters off balance.

Other teams will be ultra aggressive, like the Phillies and Padres. The Pads have playoff caliber pitching (Musgrove, Darvish, Cease), their own Big-3 hitters (Arraez, Tatis, Machado), a vet having a career year (Profar) and an outstanding rookie (Merrill).

I hope Mookie’s hand heals quickly, we acquire a pitcher, and the Dodgers put our best 8-players on the field to start each game in the playoffs!

Only 26 days till August and all will be well!

Teams with speed just run all over us. Christian Walker is out of his mind, only took 5 HR’s in the series before they walked him intentionally. Lead in the division is shrinking by the day with a long hard July schedule ahead of us.

Win the first game of the series in dramatic fashion and get our lunch money taken, knees scraped and the shit beat right out of us next 2 games.

On to Milwaukee who is another scrappy team. Be lucky to win this series either.

I said it couple weeks ago that the division title for the Dodgers is not a gimme. 6.5 games up is a nice cushion but the upcoming schedule is brutal.

Would not surprise me if the Padres and D-backs make a serious run at us.

And with 6 silent bats on the roster (Barnes, Lux, Heyward, Biggio, Kike, CT) and one hot bat that is not played regularly (Vargas) the pitching staff will be really under pressure to keep us in games. And that pitching staff has looked horrible too in the last 2 series.

Dodgers front office better have a great trade deadline this year. You just can not go into postseason play with 6 dead bats on your roster.and not play a .300 hiter (Vargas) regularly. Just can not do it.

Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

morning Mark! I understand your logic the dodgers are on cruise control. But the bottom of the lineup is bad! Mookie and max of course helps. BUT, kiki, heyward, taylor, biggio and to an extent barnes, that’s not good. it’s not panicking, but do they want to see the d-backs in the playoffs? i don’t think so. i thought vargas looked fine , they won’t play him . So how do they get real value for him this way? Are theey afraid he might actually get the job done? …. Taylor had a. magnificent at bat last night!! 10 pitches i believe. What does kiki do? weakass grounder 1st pitch. don’t care what Sweeney is hitting in the minors, cut biggio and get him up here. ….. Been watching baseball for over 60 years and never seen nothing like what Walker is doing to the dodgers!! He thinks he’s Reggie Jackson!! …. Had a chance against Gallen, just blew it . Ohtani swinging out of his shoes. Freddie not looking like Freddie. Man do they miss Will Smith up there in the middle of the lineup. …. Right now they should go get Robert JR. if they don’t the phillies will! So he comes to LA and hits .240. Big improvement over everyone except Teo!!! Bring Sweeney up or bring Dejong(spellcheck please) along with Robert JR. I’m beginning to feel the Lux. era is about to come to an end. Hate it, but sometimes it’s for the best. Sorry for the long winded post. Kinda know dodgers aren’t nearly as bad 6 weeks from now as they seem to be at this time. just make the move now, don’t get beat by another GM!

Right now waiting is painful to watch