The Dodgers Should Be Sellers at the Deadline

Well the rockies finally beat the giants last night! beautiful stadium there in colorado, shame they field such a bad team! i often wonder how a manager can get fired up for a game when your team is so bad. They say teach the young players, and hope the veterans play well enough to get traded!! They ain’t got much to trade! ……. Giants tonight! Logan Webb , always a threat on the mound. But Yamamoto seems poised to to outshine him tonight. Giants offense is ok, but their pitching is very good! I believe the dodgers avoid Robbie Ray this series. He’s been great for the giants. …. Well Conforto seems to keep showing signs of breaking thru. For the team’s sake, i hope he breaks through, or totally breaks so they can decide what to do with him before the deadline. His power would really push their offense over the top! … Maybe the pitching is starting to show signs of getting healthy. Getting Snell back along with Glasnow would be huge! .. That would allow Ben to go back to the pen, where he’s invaluable! … No structural damage for Gonsolin? What is it then?…… Dustin May needs a strong start this weekend! In my opinion, (for what it’s worth). he’s been more of a thrower than a pitcher…….. Look for Clayton to make another good start this weekend. …. Don’t you just love beating machado and tatis?? Add some cold beer and it’s a great day!!!

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Out in OKC, Ryan Ward is now hitting to a 1.010 OPS with a .321 BA, 17 HRs and an on-base percentage of .405.

He’s also stolen ten bases in 12 tries.

What would it take for the Dodgers to give him a chance?

Wednesday scores

Oklahoma City 5, Albuquerque 4

Springfield 3, Tulsa 0

Great Lakes 4, Wisconsin 2

Rancho Cucamonga 11, Inland Empire 6

ACL Dodgers 3, ACL White Sox 1

Thursday scores

4:05 p.m. PT: Great Lakes (Luke Fox) vs. Wisconsin (Jaron DeBerry)

5:05 p.m.: Tulsa (Patrick Copen) at Springfield (Ixan Henderson)

5:35 p.m.: Oklahoma City (Emmet Sheehan) at Albuquerque (Gabriel Hughes)

6:35 p.m.: Rancho Cucamonga (Christian Zazueta) at Inland Empire (Yeferson Vargas)

This might be Emmet Sheehan’s last rehab start before he joins the Dodger’s rotation next week.

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Nice win!!! Connecticut’s finest Ben Casparius comes through again “Big time”.

Good day for you huh Mark?

I won some cash on Indy.

YOu going to game 4?

Shout out to Banda who Mark was implying could get DFA just a few weeks ago. LOL.

Michael Conforto, I never doubted you….

So much to like in today’s win, starting with Caparius’s solid start. Under the rules, Trivino may have been credited for the W with one cleaning inning of work, but Casparius’s four innings, allowing one run, was more important and set the tone. Seven relievers allowed only one hit over the final 5 innings.

Other stuff to like:

–In addition to Conforto, Teo came to life with his bomb.

–Pages’s arm from centerfield. (I need to find a replay!) And Smith’s tag.

–Shohei’s aggressive triple to set up the insurance run.

–Vesia, as closer, striking out the side.

Ahhh…

ok ! we don’t want arenado. what we want is the Vesia we just watched! the Scott we saw today! Casparius. Kopech? it’s coming! Will Smith? the best! Now i would still take Duran! Kike is really struggling! Teo? he needed that! Dryer may need a 10 day break! … is it possible Casparius becomes a starter for a while? might not be such a bad thing! .. need to kick the giants -ss this weekend! May needs to pick it up ! As far as i’m concerned, he’s pitching for a job next season! He needs to throw competitive pitches! not “sweepers” 3 feet off the plate! … good series win!

From MLBTR:

Have people finally stopped calling for the Dodgers to get a 3B?

Ha, I still get the odd question here and there in chats at the site asking what it’d take for the Dodgers to get Nolan Arenado. I’m not sure whether readers are hung up on name value, Max Muncy’s slow start, a general desire for change or some combination of the above, but Muncy has been on an absolute tear for about two months now. Dating back to mid-April, he’s slashed .250/.394/.467 with an 18% walk rate against an 18.5% strikeout rate. Whether it’s the glasses or a change in approach, it’s worked. Muncy punched out at a wildly uncharacteristic 42.9% through April 13 and has basically been vintage Muncy since.

If you want to shrink the sample down further, he has an outrageous .300/.421/.589 slash — 79% better than average, per wRC+ — with more walks than strikeouts in his past 114 plate appearances dating back to May 8. That 179 wRC+ ranks ninth in all of baseball since May 8, and the only third basemen in MLB with more WAR in that span are Jose Ramirez and Manny Machado. That’s pretty good company!

I don’t really get the fascination with Arenado, who’s been a flat-out bad hitter in 2025 after two pedestrian years at the plate in 2023-24. If you’d told me before the season that the Cardinals would improbably be in the playoff hunt come mid-June, I’d have assumed Arenado was enjoying a resurgent season — but they’re winning despite him, not because of him.

Conforto !

There’s an image circulating of Machado getting angry at the umpire for the strikeout, and where Smith supposedly responded to him… It’s obviously a joke or a meme (I don’t know how to say it in English)

He said “that was outside” I told him “so is your shot at ever winning the division”

They’re also criticizing Smith for responding that the first game of the series was just “another June game” since he’s supposed to not care about playing against those sons of bitches… And it’s true, they don’t matter!

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said that Freeman is in Wednesday’s lineup in San Diego in spite of a quad injury suffered Tuesday, Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic reports.

“The injury likely means Freeman will be running at less than 100 percent, but “he’s managing it,” per Roberts. Freeman has played in every game since April 11 for the Dodgers, starting all but two contests over that span. Unless the injury gets worse, it sounds like Freeman will continue trying to play through it”.

Fangraphs lists the following as free agents in ’26: Conforto, Yates, Kershaw, Kike, Rojas, Garcia, Kopech, and May. I wouldn’t be surprised if all were gone next season. Kike is 34 and is really only so-so at this point and the Dodgers have younger guys like Kim and Edman who play everywhere. Same with Rojas. Yates is not that guy any more. Kershaw may retire. Garcia is filler. The interesting guys are May and Kopech. I think there is a chance that both return.

Muncy and Vesia both have inexpensive team options for ’26 and I think both are exercised.

Phillips, Gonsolin, and Graterol all have 1 more year of arb eligibility. Phillips won’t be able to pitch next year and they will non-tender him, but may bring him back on a team friendly 2 year deal. Gonsolin and Graterol have been unavailable for most of their tenure. Will they be non-tendered?

There are a couple of guys who need a change of scenery – Miller and Outman.

R.I.P. Brian Wilson.

He walked the fine line between genius and insanity, but his music will endure forever.

I had not looked at the schedule. This is great!

They have Rushing leading the Game Planning right now. He is right in the thick of learning how to do the play calling. He will hit, but this is more important.

If you wait until tonight, you will miss the Dodger game, it is on this afternoon. Rushing should go back to AAA, play every day and they should bring up Feduccia who is a pure backup catcher. Rushing is overmatched right now. Matt Chapman will miss the Dodger series. He was placed on the 10-day IL today. Casparius is going to start tonight’s game with Wrobo, if he can do it, taking down the bulk innings.

Jorge raises an interesting question. Of this year’s team, who will be gone next year? Including everyone on the 40 man roster?

4:10 PM ET

Dodgers (40-28)

Padres (38-28)

SP Randy Vasquez R

3-4 3.69 ERA

SP Ben Casparius ( opener)

4-1 2.93 ERA

Confirmed Lineup

DH S. Ohtani L

SS Mookie Betts R

1B F. Freeman L

C Will Smith R

RF T. Hernandez R

3B Max Muncy L

CF Andy Pages R

LF M. Conforto L

2B Hyeseong Kim L

67° Wind 8 mph Out

Should come as no surprise;

Based on an anonymous poll of more than 100 big leaguers by The Athletic, the A’s are the most disliked franchise in the entire MLB.

The outlet asked which franchises have good and bad reputations among players. The Dodgers overwhelmingly came out on top, with 82 of the 126 total responses listing them among the teams with a good reputation. No players said they have a bad one.

The Athletics, on the other hand, received zero votes for good reputation and a league-high 39 votes for a bad reputation.

Tuesday scores

Albuquerque 15, Oklahoma City 2 (8 innings)

Springfield 8, Tulsa 3

Wisconsin 10, Great Lakes 3

Inland Empire 7, Rancho Cucamonga 5

Wednesday scores

11:05 a.m. PT: Oklahoma City (Landon Knack) at Albuquerque (Bradley Blalock)

4:05 p.m.: Great Lakes (Eriq Swan) vs. Wisconsin (Tyson Hardin)

5:05 p.m.: Tulsa (Chris Campos) at Springfield (Brycen Mautz)

6:35 p.m.: Rancho Cucamonga (Logan Tabeling) at Inland Empire (Brandon Dufault)

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Mark, the Dodger game is at 4:10 ET.

There are several players who (hopefully) need to leave next season:

GLASS MAN

KERSHAW

KNACK

BAZOOKA

GROOVE

MILLER

GONSOLIN

MAY

OUTMAN

ROJAS

CONFORTO

MUNCY

TAYLOR

BARNES

SOME OTHERS.

Some have already left, others are about to expire, and with Muncy, I think the Dodgers will exercise the option for one more season.

I think the Dodgers will go for the Japanese 3B, nicknamed the Japanese Aaron Judge, and it’s possible that like Kim, he’ll start the season in the minors, so I think that’s why Muncy will be back.

I wonder, like Matt, if Bobby Miller can be effective in the pen, or not.

I think he, and Outman, really need a change of scenery and maybe some new voices coaching them. It is what it is.

Send them to the White Sox for some Lou Malnati’s and a Portillos’s dog (no joke, I had the vegan version last time and thought it tasted better than the original!)

Miller needs to go to the PEN ASAP.

Win today, win the series….

The cavalry is coming…