Report: Dodgers Interested in Pineiro

Jon Heyman reported that the Giants have re-signed Juan Uribe, pending a physical.

This is not good at all.

On the plus side, Pinieiro will allow Torre/Ned to give Scooter Elbert enough rope to win a spot.

then I would rather we target Wang as a high risk/reward pitcher. I think what Colletti wants is someone he can pencil in for 200 IP and I wouldn’t mind that if we also took a gamble on a Wang/Bedard type.

I am not worried, since it appears they could not afford him anyways.

Not the best week for Mike Leach. He has now been fired. What a difference a year makes.

I so wished Sid Fernandez had remained a Dodger. I watched his crazy K rates as he progressed up the minors and then when I saw him pitch it was like who throws like that? Unique pitcher and I’ve never seen anyone like him since.

after the Wolf deal, Eric may need to keep running this blog himself. I expect this is just an agent trying to make it appear he has alternatives but I doubt if anyone is taking him seriously.

Joel Piniero makes no sense on a team that doesn’t have enough money to sign their own young players to extensions.

This news really shouldn’t come as much surprise. Pineiro is a Ned Guy (veteran, lots of wins last year, innings eater). He said all along that he wanted a ‘bonafide’ ML starter for the 4th spot and a young pitcher in the 5th.

Apparently the Angels are going hard after Chapman. If we apprently have enough money to sign Pinero, why not just go after Chapman ourselves?

I don’t think the Dodgers will sign any extensions. And unless you think someone is going to go all Tim Lincecum or Ryan Howard on us, why not continue with one-year deals.

I don’t see Dave Stewart locking Kemp or Bills down beyond their sixth year. Frankly the only guy where you might have a shot to get some bang for the buck with an extension is Kershaw, since he is still making the minimum for 2 more years, but would the Dodgers give 5+ year deal. Lots of risk for both parties on that one.

is of course Jeff Hamilton, but I couldn’t help but notice Frank Wurm.

He was a lefty during WWII, and pitched in just one game. He faced seven batters, and walked five of them. He also gave up a hit, but struck out a batter for his only out. 108.00 ERA.

boy, I hope kershaw turns out like lester

THT

The thing that worries me about Piniero is that how much will he regress when Dave Duncan is not his pitching coach? It seems like another Jeff Suppan scenario waiting to happen…

1 year, $2.3m, per Steve Gilbert

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Not too bad of a job for our play by play man of road games that are east of the rocky mountains.

If anyone doesn’t have ESPN Deportes, but wants to watch some Dominican Winter League baseball, Licey is playing Escogido right now. No Dodgers are currently in the game.

Compare the players the manager played over the coarse of the season vs. a normalized lifetime performance curve for that player at the time and compare against the best players available on roster at the time based upon the normalized numbers. You would have to deny the existence of the hot hand and slump (i.e. if you flip a coin 2000 times there will be several long streaks of tails) or at least deny that you can predict when a hot hand or slump can be predicted, but I think if you looked over the entire year, that would be insignificant. Would be complicated, but would be somewhat meaningful, although after you would only be able to access performance after the fact. The measurement would be good for the hall of fame though.

if you cant beat them join them