The St. Louis Cardinals Must be Destroyed - 2015 Doyers thread

Because Morbius and/or symmetry demanded it.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/mlb-los-angeles-dodgers-outlook-2015-and-beyond/

Please discuss.

what the hell is a Doyer

obviously you are not down with your latino brothers

http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20131015/how-the-los-angeles-dodgers-became-known-as-los-doyers

“Doyers” means nothing in Spanish, but it means a lot to Garcia, and generations of Latino Dodgers fans.

“Doyers” has become a nostalgic phenomena in the Los Angeles Latino community, as more and more Mexican-Americans become assimilated and lose their accents. Previous generations of Central American immigrants struggled to say “Dodgers” so it came out sounding like “Doyers.”

“My parents, my uncles, they all say ‘Doyers,’” Garcia said. “My brother and I are the first Mexican-Americans in the family, and we say ‘Dodgers.’ My 5-year-old son here, he says ‘Dodgers.’”

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4140/4910206141_8ecbbec406_z.jpg

first i've heard about it thx

(Doyers is a street in NYC's Chinatown so it's not intuitive to us)

"us" == gringos?

or denizens of nueva york

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAApu5HUcAAEJ1o.jpg

sup

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAOylXoVEAEp7Hg.png

another great ILB team thread title

yeah at least flip the two parts

I've been listening to alot of history podcasts and was exposed to the "Carthago delenda est" quote and it seemed appropriate

came to post this

https://sports.vice.com/article/the-likable-unlikely-career-of-juan-uribe/

Actual quote from Brandom McCarthy following today's spring training start

"Today was horseshit,"

mccarthy is the best, glad he got free of the diamondbacks and then the yankees so I can appreciate him fully

Hyun Jin Ryu out with shoulder inflammation for the 3rd time in 2 years.. kinda worried. he's been a great value for a #3 starter the last 2 years..

former red sock allen webster embracing his new role as a diamondback and beaning justin turner - twice! - leading to an ejection

The general area, the city (of Philadelphia) being blue-collar, it’s not conducive for a superstar. You can be good, but you’ve got to be blue-collar along the way, keep your mouth shut, just go and work. Where obviously, this is L.A. It’s almost like it’s OK to be more flamboyant. You kind of appreciate that the more you’re out there. Because L.A. loves a star.

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/los-angeles-dodgers-philadelphia-phillies-jimmy-rollins-q-a-032315

Phillies are advertising tickets to the dodgers series on the main page of their ticket sale website.. guess they dont have much else to look forward to this season

Handing Out Checks Like It's the First of the Month: the 2016 Los Angeles Dodgers

I honestly can't tell the difference between this guy and Alex Guerrero except his defense is probably better.. A smart team should try to pry him from the Dodgers who clearly dont need his ass anymore. .344/.364/.531 in 32 ABs..

are they just collecting cubans now out of habit?

with UCL tears. amazin'

http://www.truebluela.com/2015/3/24/8286929/hector-olivera-ucl-tear-dodgers-contract-protection

tbf here's the free agent class of 2016 at 2b and 3b:

Second Basemen

Joaquin Arias (31)
Mike Aviles (35)
Jeff Baker (35)
Gordon Beckham (29)
Emilio Bonifacio (31)
Asdrubal Cabrera (30)
Stephen Drew (33)
Kevin Frandsen (34)
Maicer Izturis (35) – $3MM club option with a $1MM buyout
Howie Kendrick (32)
Daniel Murphy (31)
Cliff Pennington (32)
Sean Rodriguez (31)
Skip Schumaker (36) – $2.5MM club option with a $250K buyout
Chase Utley (37) – $15MM vesting option with a $2MM buyout
Ben Zobrist (35)

Third Basemen

Joaquin Arias (31)
Mike Aviles (35)
Gordon Beckham (29)
Willie Bloomquist (38)
Kevin Frandsen (34)
David Freese (33)
Jonathan Herrera (31)
Maicer Izturis (35) – $3MM club option with a $1MM buyout
Don Kelly (36)
Jeff Keppinger (36)
Casey McGehee (32)
Sean Rodriguez (31)
Juan Uribe (37)

Howie Kendrick is much younger than i thought he was.

He's definitely an option to resign.. also a QO candidate.

#Dodgers announce 3 million tix already sold this season, with season-seat sales capped at 35,000.

what do u expect from hector olivera this year, where will the dodgers put him?

Klaw (3:20 PM)
I think 3b this year if his elbow checks out, then 2b next year after Kendrick leaves. That lets Seager slide to third. Also I expect Olivera to be good for 20 or so homers and a decent average, but I have no idea what kind of OBP or even approach he'll have.

@MLBRosterMoves
.@Dodgers sign RHP Freddy Garcia to @MiLB deal.

The Dodgers on Thursday added to their bullpen, acquiring relief pitcher Ryan Webb along with minor league catcher Brian Ward from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for pitcher Ben Rowen and catcher Chris O`Brien, the team announced.

The Dodgers will also get the Orioles competitive balance draft pick, No. 74 overall. That pick, between the second and third rounds of the 2015 MLB Draft, has a slot value of $827,000, per Baseball America.

corey seager now 12-for-22 with one homer and one strikeout for tulsa

how soon til Guerrero's playing full time?!

:D
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CC0wrLAVIAAWgdf.jpg:medium

The only thing missing is Vin Scully: "And here's Compton native Kendrick Lamar, winding up to the sound of his new single, 'King Kunta'..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAp7LLIPFng

[Scully then spins previously-unknown-to-the-public anecdote about Lamar's upbringing, concludes with "'King Kunta' offers numerous observations regarding Lamar's outlook on life, chief among them 'Life ain't *fertilizer* but a fat vagina.'"]

Greinke goes Puig!

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/5/5/8557863/zack-greinke-bat-flip-gif-glorious-wonderful-it-was-a-double

ah didnt check the gif thread

Grandal went HAM today. on base 6 times, 2 homers, 8 RBI.

y'all see this

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/130622556/dodgers-joc-pederson-makes-game-saving-catch

GOTTA change thread title

lol dodgers radio has made a point of including yung joc in the bumper music, love it

why does he have to be a dodger

Won on a walk-off balk (balk-off?) last night

buck puster fosey

"Xavier Scruggs" is a pretty sweet name

Donnie Baseball a tad slow with the hook last night.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/24/zack-greinke-will-call-you-out-if-you-do-the-number-two-and-dont-wash-your-hands

Greinke's 1.39 ERA is the lowest since Gibson in '68, and therefore the second lowest since Walter Johnson in 1915. Yes, besides his park advantage, he must also be getting a little lucky--his FIP is 2.65, very good but not spectacular (and higher than Kershaw's).

Anyway, keeping an ERA that low seems extremely unlikely. Even harder than staying in the vicinity of .400, I'd say (if you can get there in the first place, that is). You can have a couple of 0-fers chasing .400 and recover; get really shelled once, though, and your ERA won't recover for weeks, if at all.

Not a believer in FIP. There are pitchers who give up more singles, doubles, and triples than others because of the way they pitch and not just because of the defense behind them. Greinke is having an insane year and his WHIP if 0.843.

his WHIP IS 0.843.

how about DRA?

It looks very interesting! I'd never read about it before.

Took me a while to warm to FIP/BABIP, Tim, but I've come to accept their predictive value. I wouldn't use them in connection to awards, where a hit is a hit and a run is a run, but as a GM, I'd definitely pay attention to them when weighing free-agent signings.

Not trying to take anything away from Greinke's remarkable season, though.

Or to put it another way, compiling an ERA that low would almost by definition involve a little luck--even Gibson in '68 had an FIP more than half-a-run greater than his actual ERA. Ditto Gooden in '85 and Maddux in '94.

On the other hand, Gooden in '84 and Pedro in '99 had FIPs much lower than their impressive-enough-already ERAs. So the point is...I don't know what the point is.

How does J.P. Howell have a 0.30 ERA? He's given up 25 hits and 10 BB in 30 innings, with a good but not exceptional strikeout rate (no homers, mind you). Does he let a lot of inherited runners score?

Kershaw missed start w/ sore hip

According to this chart, Howell has allowed five inherited runners to score:

http://www.sportingcharts.com/mlb/stats/pitching-inherited-runners-scored-leaders/2015/

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2015%2F0806%2Fmlb_a_greinke_d1_1296x518.jpg

2015 MLB .gif thread

i understand there was a Greinke bat flip today

oh, that's it

intersting lineup construction by mattingly putting the guy with the lowest (by 40 points!) OBP in leadoff

naturally he's reached base in his first two plate appearances but still

Puig just picked up an assist on a 9-6 force out.

I was watching--amazing. I don't think I'd ever give any thought to the fact that the batter isn't credited with a hit, just a FC and an out. Seems kind of silly.

If you get thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double, they don't take away the hit. This should fall on the baserunner: single for the batter, assist to Puig, out made by the runner.

Jim Johnson

<3

I remain fairly surprised that the dodgers didn't make any bullpen improvement moves at the deadline given that their bullpen is 21st in baseball (as of just before last night, entirely possible that it dropped based on the end result of last night)

they got jim johnson and avilan from the braves, it just turned out that jim johnson has a 29.9 era for his new team.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMszDO4WUAAMkRD.jpg

<3 <3 <3

http://i.imgur.com/HuFjhel.gif

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNRzuDRUcAAipos.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CN2p702UYAAjpTH.jpg

even if the Giants don't catch the Dodgers, i want the West winner to lose the homefield for a potential Mets NLDS matchup. So beat up on each other, pref with a tiebreaker play-in, guys.

Peraza! Don't know that fella at all.

rly don't see the giants doing that now that the dodgers got two of their only three hard series out of the way with wins in both, but your wish is entirely possible regardless I think

@flea333
Bumgarner sucks so hard. That's why greinke kicked his ass

#truthbombs tbh

127...

yes CK, plz be arm-weary by the time you face the Mets in the LDS

lol

CG, 6H, 1R, 1BB, 15K. have fun with that

"he ain't God, man," as Rickey Henderson once said of Tom Seaver.

(in Kershaw's case, not in the last October or two)

Utley is starting to look a little like Walter Brennan.

utley is def cooked home run tonight or no home run, still am kinda mystified by that trade

seager comin'

keri on the koufax perfect game, feat. some good interviews and archival footage http://grantland.com/the-triangle/mlb-sandy-koufax-don-hendley-perfect-game-50-year-anniversary-interview/

Corey Seager has hit .426/.526/.617 since being bumped to the majors, but his team is still leaning towards starting Jimmy Rollins over him once the veteran is healthy enough to return to the lineup.

Mattingly has hemmed and hawed, shifted and deflected. Now there are more we'll-sees than definitive statements either way. Possibly because he doesn't want it to be a distraction. Possibly because he can't respond with, "Jimmy Rollins is a decomposing mummy and Corey Seager is an erupting volcano of molten baseball talent. What do you think I'm going to do, jerk?"

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2015/9/16/9338071/dodgers-corey-seager-jimmy-rollins

lol fuckin mattingly

not that its any surprise these days

have slipped half-game behind Mets' record

i always forget that bronson arroyo is:

1. still technically in the league
2. a dodger

anyway lol he got his yacht stolen http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/2015/10/06/personal-assistant-charged-with-stealing-mlb-pitcher-yacht/BILwRN7dYeXPG20WTAyPCI/story.html

Mattingly's moving on.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/jon-heyman/25349312/sources-mattingly-dodgers-part-ways

@JoeFrisaro
source: #Marlins definitely have interest in Don Mattingly. #Dodgers

http://remezcla.com/features/sports/los-angeles-doyers-chavez-ravine/