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2010 True Blue LA Top Dodger Prospects

As voted on by you
1) Chris Withrow rhp (21)*
2) Dee Gordon ss (22)
3) Scott Elbert lhp (24)
4) Ivan DeJesus ss (23)
5) Ethan Martin rhp (21)
6) Andrew Lambo of (21)
7) Aaron Miller lhp (22)
8) Josh Lindblom rhp (23)
9) Trayvon Robinson of (22)
10) Nate Eovaldi rhp (20)
11)  
Xavier Paul of (25)
12)  
Garrett Gould rhp (18)
13a)  
Kyle Russell of (24)
13b)  
Allen Webster rhp (20)
15)  
*Age as of June 30, 2010

The 50 Walk Club

Player Date Joined
Martin July 22
Ethier August 3
Blake August 16
Loney August 18
Manny August 27
Furcal September 5
Hudson September 5
Kemp September 18

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All-Time LA Dodger Team

As voted on by you (pre-2009):
No Player Pos
30 Maury Wills SS
19 Junior Gilliam 2B
31 Mike Piazza C
28 Pedro Guerrero RF
6 Steve Garvey 1B
10 Ron Cey 3B
12 Dusty Baker LF
3 Willie Davis CF
17 Rick Dempsey C
27
Lee Lacy Utility
25
Dave Hansen L PH
11 Manny Mota R PH
32 Sandy Koufax SP
53 Don Drysdale SP
55 Orel Hershiser SP
34 F. Valenzuela  SP
20 Don Sutton SP
38 Eric Gagne CL
16 Ron Perranoski Ace
51 Jonathan Broxton RHP
97 Joe Beimel LHP

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Clipster Hipster discovers that Charlie just might be the guy to lead the Dodgers out of the tunnel.

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Don Mattingly has no professional managerial experience. Is this a consideration for current baseball GMs?

Joe Torre telepathically tells Don Mattingly that he didn't have any professional managing experience before he got his first MLB managing gig.

More photos » by Gene J. Puskar - AP

Joe Torre telepathically tells Don Mattingly that he didn't have any professional managing experience before he got his first MLB managing gig.

The topic of the moment at Dodger Thoughts is manager heir-apparent Don Mattingly and whether or not his lack of professional managing experience is an issue.  At some point it occurred to me that it would be pertinent to examine the thirty current major league managers and the experience they brought to the job when they were hired.  Perhaps this could give us an idea of how baseball general managers look at managing experience.

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Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times brings the news that, as reported last week, Manny Ramirez will exercise his $20 million option, and return to the Dodgers, according to his agent, Scott Boras.

about 13 hours ago Img_0108_tiny Eric Stephen 7 comments 0 recs

An apology of sorts

I was never a McCourt apologist (or a Colletti collaborator) but I often found myself trying to put myself in their place with respect to how the Dodgers operated their team.  I believe the first moment I went one way and most everyone else went somewhere else was the Pierre signing.  Not that I agreed with the price and the years but generally my point was that I understood why they made that deal.

I believe for Frank McCourt, the Jason Schmidt and in particular, the Andruw Jones deals were something that changed his tune about the future operations of the ball club.  With Schmidt rehabbing (in the second year of a three year/$48M deal) and Jones becoming person non grata with his two year/$40M deal (and full disclosure, I liked both of those deals), Frank McCourt decided to go on the cheap.  Which to a certain extent, at that time, I could see why, more than thirty percent of your payroll (along with others like Nomar and Kent being in and out), not playing and worst yet, one player is so unpopular, people appear to boo him no matter what he does.  However, I think McCourt let it get personal and that was wrong.

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TBLA Final Vote for the 15th best Prospect in the Dodger Organization

1 Chat and Vote Chris Withrow
2 Chat and Vote Dee Gordon
3 Chat and Vote Scott Elbert
4 Chat and Vote Ivan DeJesus
5 Chat and Vote Ethan Martin
6 Chat and Vote Andrew Lambo
7 Aaron Miller
8 Chat and Vote Josh Lindlbom
9 Chat and vote Trayvon Robinson
10 Chat and vote Nathan Eovaldi
11 Xavier Paul
12 Chat and vote Garrett Gould
13A Allen Webster
13B Kyle Russell
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Dead heat after two votes so they both get to call themselves the TBLA 13th best prospect. Final vote is now up for the 15th TBLA best Dodger prospect.  I don't know how the rest of you vote but I do it on what the ceiling is and if I expect them to reach the ceiling. So for me Lucas May will be no more then a backup catcher, while Jonathan Garcia could be Adam Jones (a comparable for his age in the Arizona League) offensively or just another fast starting kid who is swallowed up by advanced pitching.

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The Elias free agent rankings have been released and, as expected, the Dodgers have two Type A free agents -- Randy Wolf and Orlando Hudson. Ken Gurnick dropped the news today, which confirms the projections from Eddie Bajek, who has been tracking these rankings all year.

The Dodgers' Type B free agents are Ronnie Belliard, Jon Garland, Guillermo Mota, Will Ohman, and Vicente Padilla.

If offered arbitration, Type A free agents net two compensatory picks: a first rounder (most of the time) plus a supplemental pick in between the first and second rounds. Type B free agents only net a supplemental pick.

1 day ago Img_0108_tiny Eric Stephen 82 comments 0 recs

Prospect Number 13 Run Off Vote

1 Chat and Vote Chris Withrow
2 Chat and Vote Dee Gordon
3 Chat and Vote Scott Elbert
4 Chat and Vote Ivan DeJesus
5 Chat and Vote Ethan Martin
6 Chat and Vote Andrew Lambo
7 Aaron Miller
8 Chat and Vote Josh Lindlbom
9 Chat and vote Trayvon Robinson
10 Chat and vote Nathan Eovaldi
11 Xavier Paul
12 Chat and vote Garrett Gould
13
14
15

Dead Heat between Webster and Russell with Lucas May getting some surprising support.

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Run Off Vote for TBLA Prospect Number 13
Allen Webster
41 votes
Kyle Russell
41 votes
Lucas May
20 votes

102 votes | Poll has closed

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Tango Tiger takes an annual fan survey of the fielding skills of major-league baseball players. Many TBLA members are quite qualified to provide useful insight to this survey. Follow the link above to read the brief instructions, then follow the link there to the Dodgers page.

1 day ago Bison_tiny David Young 0 comments 0 recs

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2009 Dodger Payroll

Pos No Player 2009 Salary
C 55 Martin $3,900,000
1B 7 Loney $465,000
2B 13 Hudson $6,550,000
3B 23 Blake $5,250,000
SS 15 Furcal $11,500,000
LF 99 Manny $7,267,760
CF 27 Kemp $467,000
RF 16 Ethier $3,200,000

OF 9 Pierre $10,000,000
2B/3B/1B 3 Belliard $363,388
PH 25 Thome $1,000,000
PH 26 Mientkiewicz $550,000
3B/1B/2B 5 Loretta $1,250,000
SS/2B/3B 14 Castro $669,399
C 12 Ausmus $1,000,000
3B/2B 33 DeWitt $159,345
SS/2B 60 Hu $48,208
OF 17 Repko $500,000
C 49
Ellis $118,032

SP 43 Wolf
$6,000,000
SP 22 Kershaw $404,000
SP 58 Billingsley $475,000
SP 18 Kuroda $10,000,000
SP 21 Garland $0
SP 44 Padilla $85,246

CL 51 Broxton $1,975,000
RP 52 Sherrill $991,803
RP 38 Troncoso $401,000
RP 56 Kuo $437,000
RP 54 Belisario $400,000
RP 59 Mota $2,350,000
RP 31 McDonald $321,914
RP 36 Weaver $431,694
RP 57 Elbert $139,891
RP 37 Haeger $120,219

60DL 29 Schmidt $16,000,000
60DL 77 Ohman $1,350,000
60DL 3 Paul $330,055
60DL 28 Milton $557,923
60DL 49 Schlichting $43,716
AAA 47 Wade $239,740
AAA 45 Leach $194,536
AAA 50 Stults $184,524
AAA Jones $56,831
DFA Hoffmann $52,459
Traded Abreu $21,858
Traded Vargas $307,923
Traded Young $22,186
Andruw $4,850,000
Penny $2,000,000
Nomar $1,250,000
Loaiza $375,000
Bennett $50,000
Totals $106,677,650
 
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