This is an extremely pessimistic look at the Dodgers’ prospects this season from SI’s Tom Verducci. It’s hard to argue with much of it.
No team stands to lose more from the loss or truncation of the 2020 Major League Baseball season due to the coronavirus than the Dodgers. They may have traded three prospects to Boston for few or no games from Mookie Betts and his $27 million salary. As the team that draws half a million more fans than any other franchise, they are losing the most gate revenue. As the deepest team in baseball, their depth may be less valuable in a shorter season. And as the clear favorites in the National League West, their road to the postseason is more difficult as more games come off the schedule.
If there is a season it’s going to be a short one. With the pitching depth they have they might be best served by going to a six-man rotation, considering the possibility of more doubleheaders (did the Dodgers play even one over the last few years? I don’t remember any). In fact, Verducci says, “The six-man rotation, including a plethora of openers, is likely to be standard procedure for teams in a shorter season with expanded rosters.”
Roberts thinks getting baseball back when the science allows could be therapeutic for hospital patients and health-care workers and for the nation as a whole:
“You know, my father would tell stories of the family being huddled around a radio to listen to a game or around the TV for the one game of the week the family could watch. Lord willing, we can get this season in, and we’re playing and it’s broadcast into our homes to get back that feeling from decades in the past of families huddled around the TV watching America’s pastime.
Today’s scouting report. Check out the self-comparisons with McCovey. https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1257717506724200448?s=20
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1257327278935154688?s=20
We fans can name bad trades (Broglio for Brock, Martinez for DeShields, etc.), but how about trades for inanimate objects?
For $100, you might have had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pregenzer https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9c56597a9ca6a4e948645d59161412391effb674749f2892ab188afd9186e9dd.png
For $100, you could have had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pregenzer
If anybody needs another outlet to amuse themselves during this shutdown, jump over to http://www.HelloFred.com and share your thoughts on politics, religion, and philosophy.
For heaven’s sake. Hall of Famer André Dawson owns and operates a funeral home in Miami.
Somebody tell Vinnie. He loved to remind people Richie Hebner was a gravedigger. Imagine what he could do with this!
Plus, Andre Dawson was the player about whom Vinnie said was day to day. “Aren’t we all.”
Well, Dawson’s sector of the economy is recession-proof.
Silent broadcasters in the Southland.
https://twitter.com/AsteriskTour/status/1254826824758104064?s=20
Hey, I heard the Giants are trying to get Puig. Too bad, I hope there are not any Giant fans here because I really, really dislike the Giants!!
No love for the Gnats here.
It would be amusing to see the reaction among Gnatfans who would then have to loathe the best player on their team.
Never thought about that but I guess that is the case.
So sorry, I did not see the comments go to the bottom of the post.
Did I do something wrong? Where is my 1st comment?
Hello
where is the baseball season?
Hi. Not where or when it should be.
(Well) south of the border, I love the acronym. https://twitter.com/Argentinabeis/status/1255166594654900225?s=20
This is a sad end to a sad story. Steve Dalkowski, the player upon whom Nuke LaLoosh was based, has passed away due to Covid-19. Unlike Nuke, he blew his elbow out in his last spring start before he was going to make the Orioles. He also lived in New Britain, CT which is where I teach. He was interviewed for a baseball documentary called “Fastball”, which if you haven’t seen it, is very much worth watching, as is it’s complement, “Knuckleball”.
Oildale, where Dalko hung out, was Merle Haggard country.
https://twitter.com/kengurnick/status/1254212223888551936?s=20
Very good news.
https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1254211757674881026
He also stated that he will henceforth eschew head-first slides.
Well, yeah. It doesn’t get you to the bag any faster.
No but, in some cases, it might make it easier to avoid a tag.
An NPR Tiny desk concert with John Fogerty at home, backed by his kids, starting off with Centerfield.
He’s a collector; you can tell it just from the guitars in this concert. He said this in a 2007 interview at Vintage GuitarWhen I lived Nashville, I sold a bunch. It used to be about 250, but I sold a bunch through George Gruhn.Two hundred and fifty guitars!
As he says, he still has the guitar he used ay Woodstock.
I liked the Louisville slugger guitar.
As he says, he still has the guitar he used ay Woodstock.
I liked the Louisville slugger guitar.
Such a great song that you can almost forgive him for being a Gnatfan.
I can’t fault anyone for rooting for Willie Mays.
Mays was a genuine Giant. The rest have all been Gnats.
Today I finally got around to cancelling my MLBTV subscription for the 2020 season. I’m getting a refund but, if a miracle happens, I’ll buy back in.
Yeah, I’m going to have to do that at some point.
There’s simply no reason to have it active, to pay the owners for a product that doesn’t exist.
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/1253369310539591684
The last thing you want to happen these days is to be taken to the hospital. Stay safe, Vin.
Not corona, but… https://twitter.com/susanslusser/status/1253372519739830274?s=20
Bloody Bosox! Mookie should be suspended.
Dodgers Fan Mask
https://twitter.com/BillShaikin/status/1253067025091448832?s=20
Game 5 of the 1965 World Series – a Koufax masterpiece – is now on YouTube. https://www.truebluela.com/2020/4/21/21228662/1965-world-series-game-5-video-dodgers-twins
A start, at best… https://twitter.com/BillShaikin/status/1252764540539858944?s=20
The Giants did something similar back in March.
So cheaply?
Unspecified amounts.
“the Giants are providing supplemental payments and relief grants to these employees while our season is on hold.”
The last time the season was shortened, the Dodgers won it all. I’m doubting there’ll be any 2020 season, though.