Ramblings of man who spent the day in the sun

by Phil Gurnee on Sep 6, 2008 7:32 PM PDT Comment 2 comments

Seven games into the 20 game winning streak that 6-4-2 said we needed to legitimize the Manny trade.

Saw signs of Kemp getting ready to go on a run after a quiet home stand. I'll admit to looking past the Pittsburgh series and itching to see what Ethier, Manny, Loney, and Kemp can do in the Mile High City. Loney with 24 RBI's in only 62 plate appearances when he visits the beautiful state of Colorado.

I hear that Pittsburgh has an excellent young 3rd baseman that is having a tough time adjusting to major league pitching. Here's to hoping he doesn't start figuring things out until next weekend.

Has any game changed more then one that was supposed to feature the Cy Young tag team of Randy Johnson/Greg Maddux only to find out it is the battle of the 2006 draft picks. This game should be our advantage. Kuo is ready to pitch and pickup for Clayton after he shuts them down for another 6 innings. Max will not get out of the 5th inning.

The Diamondbacks have thrown Haren/Webb four times at us and have come up 0-4. This was the duo that was supposed to strike fear into the hearts of the NL playoff teams. The only fear they are having now is that they won't get to face that duo and instead might be looking at Lowe/Billingsley.

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Schedule backwards?

I’m wondering if you’ve looked carefully at the schedule, or have I misunderstood your comments? It looks like you think the Dodgers are going to Pittsburgh tomorrow, before Denver next weekend. They’re going down to San Diego tomorrow (or rather, tonight), have a day off on Thursday, Denver next weekend (as you say), then 4 games in Pittsburgh the following week. So if LaRoche figures things out next weekend, it’s still bad news for the Dodgers. I expect he’ll have one good game against the Dodgers, and that will be it. (No good reason, just idle speculation.) There’s lots of room for both Kemp and Loney to step it up and go wild against all these teams to come. Remember when Loney came up in September 2006 and got – was it 9 RBIs in one game in Coors? But I don’t think the humidor was functioning at its peak that day.

by berkowit28 on Sep 7, 2008 10:03 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

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You are right, I forgot about SD. See what happens when you spend to much time in the sun.

by Phil Gurnee on Sep 7, 2008 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

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2010 Dodger Payroll

Pos	No	Player	2010 Salary
C	55	Martin	$5,050,000
1B	7	Loney	$3,100,000
2B	33	DeWitt	$410,000*
3B	23	Blake	$6,000,000
SS	15	Furcal	$8,500,000
LF	99	Manny	$7,267,760
CF	27	Kemp	$4,000,000
RF	16	Ethier	$6,000,000

2B/3B	14	Carroll	$1,350,000
2B/3B/1B	3	Belliard	$825,000
C	12	Ausmus	$850,000
OF	5	Johnson	$800,000
SS	60	Hu	$405,000*

SP	22	Kershaw	$425,000*
SP	58	Billingsley	$3,850,000
SP	18	Kuroda	$14,100,000
SP	44	Padilla	$4,025,000
SP	50	Stults	$405,000*

CL	51	Broxton	$4,000,000
LHP	52	Sherrill	$4,500,000
LHP	56	Kuo	$950,000
RHP	67	Troncoso	$425,000*
RHP	54	Belisario	$425,000*
RHP	31	McDonald	$425,000*
RHP	68	Monasterios	$460,000*

		Pierre	$4,000,000
		Andruw	$3,600,000
		Schmidt	$2,000,000
		Wolf	$2,000,000
		Hudson	$1,440,000
		Nomar	$1,250,000
		Ohman	$200,000
		Zerpa	$35,000
		Hoffmann	($50,000)

Others on 40-man roster (total: 39)
RHP	64	Guerra
RHP	37	Haeger
RHP	74	Jansen
LHP	59	Leach
RHP	73	Link
RHP	49	Schlichting
LHP	57	Elbert
RHP	47	Wade
C	9	Ellis
C	71	May
SS	87	DeJesus
OF	75	Paul
OF	17	Repko	$500,000
OF	62	Robinson

Totals			$93,522,760
Red = arbitration Asterisk (*) = estimated
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