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aprevo15
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^^^Sometimes the conspiracy theory in me gets the best of me. Especially when I can't wait for Roki's decision.  |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | MLB bans two Yankees fans who interfered with Dodgers' Betts
Major League Baseball has banned two fans who interfered with Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts during a World Series game at Yankee Stadium from attending games at big league ballparks.
The league sent a letter to Austin Capobianco and John P. Hansen this week informing them of the decision.
| Quote: | "On Oct. 29, 2024, during Game 4 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, you interfered with play by intentionally and forcefully grabbing a player.
Your conduct posed a serious risk to the health and safety of the player and went far over the line of acceptable fan behavior," said the letter, the contents of which were first reported by the New York Post and later obtained by The Associated Press. |
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aprevo15
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| Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| ^^^About time those dbags gets banned. It shouldn't take 2+ months to view the video and decide. Those guys could have broken Mookie's wrist, |
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aprevo15
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| Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Chan Ho Park lost his home in the fire. Him and his family was able to get away safe. I always thought he was back in Korea. |
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LongBeachPoly
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 10:28 am Post subject: |
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Look at how Fangraphs describes the pitcher we got for Cartaya:
| Quote: | In exchange, the Dodgers received hulking 20-year-old DSL righty, Jose Vasquez, a hard-throwing prospect who has spent the last two seasons in the DSL.
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Man, now I’m curious what he looks like. The last 2 pitchers who were “hulking” to me were: Farnsworth and Syndergaard.
| Quote: | Despite his strike-throwing improvement, Vasquez is still most likely going to be a reliever. He’s a physical, 220ish-pound 20-year-old who has had trouble harnessing his 94-97 mph fastball, which sometimes has very heavy late sink.
His 84-88 mph slider is curt and cuttery at times, but it flashes bat-missing two-plane shape and above-average length. Vasquez’s realistic ceiling is better than a generic middle reliever, but he’s maybe a half decade away from the bigs. He’ll probably begin his Dodgers career in Extended Spring Training.
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Yeah, 220 lbs does seem pretty heavy for a baseball player |
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aprevo15
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 11:38 am Post subject: |
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^^^Dodgers had some hefty pitchers in the past. Broxton and Ryu comes to mind.
Also guys like Volgebach makes this guy light. |
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LongBeachPoly
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| aprevo15 wrote: | ^^^Dodgers had some hefty pitchers in the past. Broxton and Ryu comes to mind.
Also guys like Volgebach makes this guy light. |
Hefty yes, but “hulking”?
This guy sounds like 220 lbs of muscle. |
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aprevo15
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| LongBeachPoly wrote: | | aprevo15 wrote: | ^^^Dodgers had some hefty pitchers in the past. Broxton and Ryu comes to mind.
Also guys like Volgebach makes this guy light. |
Hefty yes, but “hulking”?
This guy sounds like 220 lbs of muscle. |
Ah I see. For some reason I thought being overweight. Yeah that is a lot of muscle. NFL player type of muscle. It can make you clumsy. |
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LongBeachPoly
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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| aprevo15 wrote: | | LongBeachPoly wrote: | | aprevo15 wrote: | ^^^Dodgers had some hefty pitchers in the past. Broxton and Ryu comes to mind.
Also guys like Volgebach makes this guy light. |
Hefty yes, but “hulking”?
This guy sounds like 220 lbs of muscle. |
Ah I see. For some reason I thought being overweight. Yeah that is a lot of muscle. NFL player type of muscle. It can make you clumsy. |
Yeah especially for a pitcher. I don’t think being a muscular pitcher is a good thing.
This is the only video I’ve found of him: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4J6XS76qeYw
Not sure how muscular he is in this video. |
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| Quote: | Dodgers Predicted to Have Best Farm System in MLB at End of Season
Jim Callis of the Pipeline Podcast predicted that by the close of the 2025 season, the Dodgers will once again show their farm system strength as the best in the big leagues.
| Quote: | “The reasoning behind my pick was how young the Dodgers system is. I don’t think they’re going to get a lot of guys promoted out of their Top 30 to the big leagues,” Callis said.
“They aren’t going to lose a Jackson Jobe, for instance. The one guy they could lose is Dalton Rushing, a catcher who they did have play some outfield last year. But I’m not necessarily convinced he’ll lose his rookie status.
“They just have this amazing collection of young teenage talent, from Josue De Paula to Joendry Vargas to Emil Morales to Eduardo Quintero to Kellon Lindsey to Zyhir Hope to Ching-Hsien Ko. I can go on and on. These guys aren’t all going to become Top 100 prospects, but I think as they get into full season ball and make their U.S. debuts, they’re going to raise their profiles.”
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Amazing job by Friedman/Gomez n the entire scouting/developmental department. |
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aprevo15
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| ^^^He doesn't look that bad. His throwing looks kinda stiff like Graterol. He doesn't have that sling shot type of look. When you see skinny pitchers throw fast, their arm looks like runner and ball comes out like out of a sling shot. This guy is more like Graterol. Just power. Not saying his throwing motion looks like Graterol just the concept of how he is throwing. Maybe all that muscle can protect his joints. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| One of the Dodgers' top signings this international period was supposed to be Dominican SS Darell Morel, and we've lost him to the Pirates. So I guess you can say the Sasaki decision has already had some effects, but in this case, it has worked out for Morel. He was expected to receive about 900K from us, but he's now going to get $1.8MM from the Pirates. Good for him. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| ChickenStu wrote: | | One of the Dodgers' top signings this international period was supposed to be Dominican SS Darell Morel, and we've lost him to the Pirates. So I guess you can say the Sasaki decision has already had some effects, but in this case, it has worked out for Morel. He was expected to receive about 900K from us, but he's now going to get $1.8MM from the Pirates. Good for him. |
Yup, prospects aren’t going to wait after Jan 15th, let alone 2026.
Break a promise and they’ll get snatched up immediately.
We’ll have a good idea on Jan 15th which teams decided to break their promises to pursue Sasaki.
I bet there’ll be very few left. |
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For those, like me are waiting for the expected and trying their best to not get caught up: We are still looking good.
Teo - retained (as expected - seemed like there were plenty moments where we seemed out of it - glad I ignored for the most part)
Sasaki - just a matter of time/on track (ignoring the noise)
Kiké - just like last year, at the very end. Keep faith
Kershaw - don’t expect any surprises, he’s coming back
Everything looks good so far. The only negatives for some : Buehler gone, Lux gone.
Happy for both and hope they can reach their max potential.
Obviously some don’t care about everything listed above. Just speaking for myself and what I expect in terms of who is on the team next year.
Bonus: Snell, Conforto
Head down, just waiting for major headlines. Sasaki next, Kersh/Kike together. Vesia as well. |
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aprevo15
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| LongBeachPoly wrote: | | ChickenStu wrote: | | One of the Dodgers' top signings this international period was supposed to be Dominican SS Darell Morel, and we've lost him to the Pirates. So I guess you can say the Sasaki decision has already had some effects, but in this case, it has worked out for Morel. He was expected to receive about 900K from us, but he's now going to get $1.8MM from the Pirates. Good for him. |
Yup, prospects aren’t going to wait after Jan 15th, let alone 2026.
Break a promise and they’ll get snatched up immediately.
We’ll have a good idea on Jan 15th which teams decided to break their promises to pursue Sasaki.
I bet there’ll be very few left. |
If you want to win big you gotta sacrifice the little prizes along the way. Kinda reminds of deal or no deal. We can lose it all going for the top prize. |
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| aprevo15 wrote: | | LongBeachPoly wrote: | | ChickenStu wrote: | | One of the Dodgers' top signings this international period was supposed to be Dominican SS Darell Morel, and we've lost him to the Pirates. So I guess you can say the Sasaki decision has already had some effects, but in this case, it has worked out for Morel. He was expected to receive about 900K from us, but he's now going to get $1.8MM from the Pirates. Good for him. |
Yup, prospects aren’t going to wait after Jan 15th, let alone 2026.
Break a promise and they’ll get snatched up immediately.
We’ll have a good idea on Jan 15th which teams decided to break their promises to pursue Sasaki.
I bet there’ll be very few left. |
If you want to win big you gotta sacrifice the little prizes along the way. Kinda reminds of deal or no deal. We can lose it all going for the top prize. |
100%. As I'm sure we're all Lakers fans here as well, we know all to well the feeling of losing out on smaller prizes while waiting for the big FA.
Sasaki is already a done deal though. Can't wait for the announcement!
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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^^^
Yup. I think it’s a bit easier for us since we were already given a promise. We’re not risking anything.
I think other teams like SD are the ones who are risking alot. It’s a double whammy for them as they don’t get Sasaki + they are forced to break promises to elite prospects. |
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| The hatred from other fans is going to skyrocket at least 100x when we sign Sasaki. I could just see it. What's more crazy is that even if for some reason he goes somewhere else, we are still the heavy favorites to win it all for the next couple of years at least. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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There's speculation that Jack Flaherty's camp is open to a short-term deal with opt-outs.
Allow me to translate: "teams don't want to give me a 5-year deal (and maybe not even a 4-year deal) because my good 2024 season was the first good season I've had since 2019, so please, pretty please, give me a 3-year deal with opt-outs after the first and second years so that I completely control the process and still get a boatload of guaranteed money for 3 years." |
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I think the Dodgers have Flaherty as a plan B, if we lose out on Sasaki, offer him a 2 year deal with a first year opt-out. No way we give him 4-5 years.
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| waterman40 wrote: | ^^
I think the Dodgers have Flaherty as a plan B, if we lose out on Sasaki, offer him a 2 year deal with a first year opt-out. No way we give him 4-5 years. |
I don't think we would be interested in that, but I could be wrong. Starting pitchers scheduled to hit free agency after the 2025 season include Framber Valdez, Zac Gallen, Kodai Senga (has a $15MM opt out), Dylan Cease, and Zach Eflin. Given that Flaherty would be our #5 starter at absolute best, I just can't see us spending significant money on him when his upside is relatively low. He's had one good season out of the last five, and he was more bad than good for us in the postseason. If we wanted to dip back into the free agent market next season, there would be much stronger options. Add it all up, and I just don't think it would be a good bet for management to make. |
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| But two things for Flaherty returning is he offers variety from our other starters in terms of his pitch mix and also its clear dude really wants to stay a Dodger. If there is anyone that would come at a price that might seem to be a discount, it would be Black Jack. Flaherty as a #5 is a real luxury to have and as a backup option to Sasaki really shows how great the Dodger organization truly is. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| 1995Lakers wrote: | | But two things for Flaherty returning is he offers variety from our other starters in terms of his pitch mix and also its clear dude really wants to stay a Dodger. If there is anyone that would come at a price that might seem to be a discount, it would be Black Jack. Flaherty as a #5 is a real luxury to have and as a backup option to Sasaki really shows how great the Dodger organization truly is. |
I'd be OK with his return but only if it were a 1-year deal. No second year money, no opt-out, nothing that ties us to him beyond this year. |
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Interesting table here, showing team payrolls at the end of the 2024 season compared to where they are right now. The Dodgers' # is virtually identical at the moment. Sasaki wouldn't really change this number, but Kike would and obviously a high-priced reliever like Tanner Scott would.
The Mets have shed the most payroll. They would certainly seem to have the ability to take on more money. Maybe they decide to splurge on Scott, even though they already have Diaz. There's obviously money there for them to re-sign Alonso, too. They could also go a different route and sign someone like Alex Bregman, while moving Vientos to first base.
https://x.com/Brooks_Gate/status/1878507489416602074 |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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^^^
I wonder if that takes into account bonuses, incentives and arbitration.
Phillies aren’t the team that comes to mind when thinking of which team added the most to their payroll from last year. |
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