A Public Service Annoucement

by Andrew on May 6, 2008 9:32 AM PDT

Since I’m seeing this thrown around a lot, no we can’t send Andruw Jones back to AAA even though he never used up his option years. Once a player has more than three years of service time, he can refuse any assignment.

Congrats to Blake DeWitt for his first career home run. He’s actually putting up solid numbers now (.295/.382/.436), albeit with a BABIP that’s 120 points higher than expected. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

For those of you who still hate Jim Tracy, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette talks about Nate McLouth’s breakout (he’s hitting .323/.411/.606 this year), and how Jim Tracy buried him during his tenure as the Pirates manager by benching him for Pierre-a-likes Chris Duffy and Nyjer Morgan.

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I’ll never not hate Jim Tracy.

by Tango and Cash on May 6, 2008 1:48 PM PDT reply actions

BABIP

His LD% is only 8%. I was shocked when I looked it up. I’ve never seen a LD% that low below from a position player. What is the formula that translates LD%, GB% and FB% into expected BABIP? I know there is one for LD% + .120 (or something close to that), but I’ve seen one that also took into consideration GB% and FB%, of course FB% didn’t carry much weight. Thanks.
vr, Xeifrank

by Xeifrank on May 6, 2008 1:48 PM PDT reply actions

Off the top of my head, it’s something like .3GB%.18OFB%.75LD%+.01IFB% on balls in play.

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by Andrew on May 6, 2008 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions

Nerd.

by Tango and Cash on May 6, 2008 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Just out of curiosity....

how much did the Dodgers bribe Bud Selig to be able to face Oliver Perez and make the Dbacks have to face John Maine and Johan Santana?

Max Scherzer is all out of bubblegum.

by DbacksSkins on May 6, 2008 5:27 PM PDT reply actions

isn't

Maine penciled for Wednesday..that is a blessing that we miss johan though

O.A.

by Ollie on May 6, 2008 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions

And probably a bit less than the money you wasted on signing Eric Byrnes! Zing!

by Tango and Cash on May 6, 2008 6:07 PM PDT up reply actions

We will

sink the Maine in daylight.

I’ve got 4 tickets I can’t use for tomorrows day game. If anyone wants them post it.

by Phil Gurnee on May 6, 2008 6:41 PM PDT reply actions

DeWitt

Happy to see you giving the kid somewhat of a break (kind of back-handed though…). While I have to believe your May 4th comment was more out of frustration at the treatment of LaRoche, I believe DeWitt deserves better from you. While he may not perform to the potential of LaRoche, an OBP of .398 and a OPS of.886 (this is after 28 games…the numbers should be better after this week) aren’t bad for a AA player thrown into the Show.

by bobmac on May 7, 2008 7:41 PM PDT reply actions

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2012 Dodgers Payroll

Italics denote estimates
Pos	No	Player	2012 Salary
C	17	Ellis	$500,000	team control
1B	7	Loney	$6,375,000
2B	14	Ellis	$2,500,000
3B	5	Uribe	$8,000,000
SS	9	Gordon	$485,000	team control
LF	21	Rivera	$4,000,000
CF	27	Kemp	$10,000,000
RF	16	Ethier	$10,950,000

IF/OF	6	Hairston	$2,250,000
OF	10	Gwynn	$850,000
2B/3B	3	Kennedy	$800,000
C	18	Treanor	$850,000
IF	12	Sellers	$485,000	team control

SP	22	Kershaw	$6,000,000
SP	58	Billingsley	$9,000,000
SP	29	Lilly	$12,000,000
SP	37	Capuano	$3,000,000
SP	44	Harang	$3,000,000

CL	54	Guerra	$485,000	team control
RHP	74	Jansen	$500,000	team control
RHP	55	Guerrier	$4,750,000
RHP		Coffey	$1,000,000
RHP	66	MacDougal	$650,000
LHP	57	Elbert	$485,000	team control
RHP	36	Hawksworth	$500,000	team control

TJ	41	De La Rosa	$485,000	team control

		Manny	$8,087,432	deferred
		Andruw	$3,375,000	deferred
		Pierre	$3,050,000	deferred
		Furcal	$3,000,000	deferred
		Kuroda	$2,000,000	deferred
		Garland	$1,500,000	option buyout
		Blake	$1,250,000	option buyout

Totals			$112,162,432
For more detailed information, click here.
Players on 40-man roster used as roster fillers until moves are made. Current 40-man roster count: 40 (not including Belisario)

2012 Non-Roster Invitees

No	Player	Age*
63	Jose Ascanio rhp	27
61	Alberto Castillo lhp	36
60	Matt Chico lhp	29
35	John Grabow lhp	33
59	Angel Guzman rhp	30
47	Wil Ledezma lhp	31
72	Shane Lindsay rhp	27
62	Fernando Nieve rhp	29
73	Scott Rice lhp	30
70	Will Savage rhp	27
71	Ryan Tucker rhp	25

30	Josh Bard c	34
82	Griff Erickson c	24
81	Matt Wallachc	26
67	Jeff Baisley 3b/1b	29
62	Luis Cruz ss/2b	28
33	Josh Fields 3b	29
64	Lance Zawadzki if	27
56	Cory Sullivan of	32

*Age on June 30, 2012
NRI count: 19 For more info, click here.

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