Diamondbacks at Dodgers, 1:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FS-A
Bud Norris (6-9, 4.27 ERA) goes for the Dodgers and Patrick Corbin (4-9, 5.31 ERA) pitches for the D-Backs. It’s a rematch for these two pitchers: between the two of them they gave up 10 earned runs and 15 hits in nine combined innings in a 13-7 Dodgers win on July 15.
Roberts said Yasiel Puig will start on Sunday for the first time in a week. There have been several different rumors about a possible trade including Puig, so I’m wondering if this is a showcase game for him. CBS Sports came up with eight different teams to which he might be traded. He’s also been rumored to be part of a three-team deal with the Reds for Jay Bruce.
Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez is one home run away from joining the 300-homer club. He would become the seventh active player to reach 300 homers and 400 doubles. The other six are Miguel Cabrera, Albert Pujols, David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez, Adrian Beltre, and Carlos Beltran.
Pretty good company, I’d say. I think five of the six are locks for the Hall of Fame, and A-Rod would be were it not for his PED use.
Lineup when available.
Today's lineup:
Kendrick LF
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Van Slyke 1B
Grandal C
Puig RF
Hernández CF
Taylor 2B
Norris P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 31, 2016
NPUT
I always hate to give up young players, which goes with my hoarder nature, but I like this trade because it provides us with two valuable pieces that can offer immediate help. Maybe we will not see Howie in left field so much now.
Hopefully Hill gets of the DL very soon. Howie has done fine in LF, but it will be great to have 3 natural outfielders out there. And Howie/Utley should be a good tandum at 2nd.
Believe he is due to come off Friday or Saturday.
Feels like an overpay for 2 month rentals. Of course if we get 3 full months of Reddick and Hill, then it lessens the cost a fair bit. Definitely a sellers market out there.
Gotta give to get. Give: Something that we have a lot of. Get: Those two players have generated WAR 5.1 this year.
It may be, but they’re pretty cheap and they may be amenable to signing longer contracts after the season if both sides are happy with the two months’ performance.
So Reddick and Hill for Montos, Holmes and Cotton.
http://www.truebluela.com/2016/8/1/12342484/rich-hill-josh-reddick-trade-dodgers-athletics-harel-cotton Reddick and Rich Hill for Cotton, Montas and Holmes
Sorry Bob. I didn’t refresh the page before I posted.
After some more reflection, we clearly didn’t give up front line guys (Urias, JDL, Verdugo and Bellinger) so the overpay is not too bad.
All hail the ball girl! http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/07/31/192920322/dodgers-ballgirl-makes-fantastic-catch-while-protecting-fans-in-stands
That was an amazing catch.
See that Seth Smith (Mariner, ex-Rox) is now being mentioned as another option for left handed hitting outfielder, along with Bruce and Reddick. The latter would be the cheapest, cuz he would be a free agent rental. Dre has two more years on his contract, so may be that is all the Dodgers would want in order to remain flexible.
With Wade Miley going to the O’s, SVS praying for a ’66 WS rematch. In 21 PA against him, Scotty has 5 dingers, 3 doubles and 3 BB, adding up to OPS 1.968!
I hope that rematch comes with better results than in ’66.
Well, pretty hard for it to be worse, so there is that.
True. Were you living out that way then?
Didn’t move to the East Coast until 1978. Quickly adopted the O’s as my AL fallback team and thoroughly enjoyed the Weaver years at Memorial Stadium.
Two touchdowns beats a field goal every time.
With three hits today Seager jumped into the top ten in total hits MLB-wide and fourth in the NL.
Johnny Frederick holds the Dodgers rookie record for hits with 206 set in 1929. I am trying to track down if other Dodgers rookies had at least 200 hits.
As I said here, none of the Dodgers’ RoY award-winners had 200. I looked them up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpGx4foRdPw
Woo-HOO!!!
We win!
And now, Joc!
Joc is warming up…
AZ is like a sweet tonic today.
Nice when the Dodgers score in 5 straight innings. #gettingspoiled
This is the best possible situation for facing Goldschmidt.
Hathaway’s not quite ready to step in for Inspector Morse.
Seager! Had a feeling there.
This kid is really good. And he is only 22.
He’s got a shot at 200 hits this year.
Have we had (m)any rookies with 200 hits?
None of our Rookie of the Year players had as many as 200 hits. That’s not the entire set of players, but it has to be close.
Belive that it has been done 14 times, the last time by Ichiro in 2001.
He’s fifth in the league in hits right now, or possibly fourth after today’s outburst.
RF didn’t move an inch on that one!
Wait – why was Maeda pinch running for the Dodgers fastest runner? I think I missed something on Toles single. Did he injure himself?
Steiner & Monday speculating he’s sore from running into the wall face-first last night (he needed some stitches).
Then why was he batting in the first place? Sigh, sometimes I just don’t understand.
You’re not the only one.
Not all that unusual a guy deemed ok to bat though not to run the bases (see Gibson, Kirk)
If I recall correctly, there was one time that Gibson went up to bat injured, got a hit – and didn’t need a pinch runner. 😉
I remember that.
Puig is alive!
He had been around OPS+ 115 since coming back from the DL, so not a flop. But high expectations due to his potential.
Even so, he hadn’t been on the field much lately.
Well, this the way I like to see the Dodgers going against AZ.
Yasmanee!
Puig got some wood on that one.
It also helps to have Tomás in LF.
Yes, to help turn good wood into a hit.
Today, Jake Lamb has taken over the lead in errors by an NL third basemen.
Game getting a bizarro feel to it.
Such a weird play, and call. I don’t understand why you send the third base guy home.
The bases were loaded.
So they assume he would have come home on a wild pitch?
It was initially called a balk, which would force the guy at third to go home. Then they went to catcher’s interference (Timmermann, where are you?) and now a WP.
That was weird. Recall Berroa catching a ball in his shirt once.
Bizarre.
Norris: muscle tightness in back.
Guys, you’re supposed to beat the last-place teams easily and split with your equals. What part of this equation eludes you?
Nice SO, Stripling.
Welcome back Quique.
He looked safe to me on the slo-mo replay. Anyone else get a look?
It probably falls into the “too close to overturn” category.
As Vin said, he looked out by a toe nail.
SVS has a nice big foot.
But not big enough.
Taylor is a little shaky at second so far.
Bye bye Bud. Hello Ross.
What happened to Nud?
Felt something twinge I guess.
Uh oh. Bud not looking good.
Looks like adios Bud.
Man, I just looked at that lineup. Unusual, to say the least.
Highly unlikely AGon will be an HOFer – rather, the Hall of the Very Very Good. Improbable that he’ll reach 400. Right now, he’s more of a James Loney (who’s resuscitated his career with the Metropolitans, though).
I didn’t mean to imply he was HoF quality, really. I just meant the people he was joining with those numbers have gone on to have HoF careers. I think he’s a little long in the tooth to make up for lost time.
At one point, when he was hitting 40 HRs at The Litter Box, it was a plausible projection. Not any longer, but he’s still good.
His numbers are comparable to Tony Perez age 22-34. Tony, however, played another ten years. Didn’t do all that much during that period as an average league hitter, but he did accumulate some counting stats and the goodwill of writers to end up in the HOF.
Pretty quiet on the trade front so far, but with our FO team you never know what will happen. Austin Barnes’ name has surfaced recently.