An appreciation of Charlie Steiner
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Don Mattingly has no professional managerial experience. Is this a consideration for current baseball GMs?
by David Young on Nov 6, 2009 4:34 PM PST
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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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Boras: Manny To Return
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.
An apology of sorts
by bhsportsguy on Nov 6, 2009 3:15 PM PST
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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
by Phil Gurnee on Nov 6, 2009 12:35 PM PST
in Minor League Updates
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| 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 | |
| 15 | ||
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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Wolf, Hudson are Type A Free Agents
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.
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Prospect Number 13 Run Off Vote
by Phil Gurnee on Nov 5, 2009 6:12 PM PST
in Minor League Updates
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| 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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Provide your own scouting report on the Dodgers
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.
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