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by Phil Gurnee on Jun 18, 2009 10:20 AM PDT

Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness | a Los Angeles Dodgers blog MSTI takes a look at Russell Martin. Eric had a story lined up also reviewing the troubles of Russell, but I talked him into waiting until the end of June to see if Russell could make the story moot. Hopefully MSTI has jumped the gun and Martin bangs his way out of the slump. If not my apologies to Eric for asking him to wait. I'm not a scout, but I was encouraged by Martin's BP on Tuesday night. He was driving the ball out to left field with no problem, he was driving the ball to right center with authority. Joe Torre and Mattingly still feel he will work his way out of this slump.

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I just get the feeling that if Martin gets his first homerun, he’ll finally stop pressing.

by Tripon on Jun 18, 2009 10:51 AM PDT reply actions

I think he needs to go back to partying, chewing, and enjoying being a young major league catcher while he still can…. maybe then he will enjoy playing the game, not worry about his stats and break out of his slump….

Or he just needs to get the monkey off his back and hit a HR

by Big Blue on Jun 18, 2009 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions

I’d also add that he needs to fully grow out and embrace the ’fro. :)

by Eric Stephen on Jun 18, 2009 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

I think he would rather spend time with his hot girlfriend, than try to go clubbing.

by Tripon on Jun 18, 2009 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions

by Big Blue on Jun 18, 2009 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

That is great.

by Eric Stephen on Jun 18, 2009 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions

Haha!

Awesome. Where’d you find that?

by Brendan Scolari on Jun 18, 2009 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions

I saw it in a chain email awhile back, and I thought it was a fitting solution to this argument

by Big Blue on Jun 18, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions

It certainly is.

Although for some reason I can’t see it now.

by Brendan Scolari on Jun 18, 2009 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions

Oops

Nevermind. I guess it is just slow to load.

by Brendan Scolari on Jun 18, 2009 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions

replacing Problems with Evil is how I’ve seen that equation.

seems to fit better in a lot of situations, haha

by pdotmac1 on Jun 18, 2009 12:11 PM PDT reply actions

I don't know if any of you have checked out the Type A and B lists from MLB

that we linked to but there are very interesting. Better players are in the Type B grouping then the A in many cases.

Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen

by Phil Gurnee on Jun 18, 2009 1:31 PM PDT reply actions

I saw them

I ’ll write a post about it tonight.

by Brendan Scolari on Jun 18, 2009 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions

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C	17	Ellis	$490,000
1B	7	Loney	$6,375,000
2B	14	Ellis	$2,500,000
3B	5	Uribe	$8,000,000
SS	9	Gordon	$485,000
LF	23	Abreu	$401,311
CF	27	Kemp	$10,000,000
RF	16	Ethier	$10,950,000

OF	10	Gwynn	$850,000
IF	12	Sellers	$481,000
OF/1B	33	Van Slyke	$388,197
2B/3B	3	Kennedy	$800,000
C	18	Treanor	$850,000

SP	22	Kershaw	$6,000,000
SP	58	Billingsley	$9,000,000
SP	29	Lilly	$12,000,000
SP	44	Harang	$3,000,000
SP	35	Capuano	$3,000,000

CL	74	Jansen	$491,000
RHP	52	Lindblom	$483,000
RHP	51	Belisario	$414,426
RHP	54	Guerra	$488,000
RHP	28	Wright	$900,000
LHP	57	Elbert	$488,500
RHP	60	Coffey	$1,000,000

DL	55	Guerrier	$4,750,000
DL	6	Hairston	$2,250,000
DL	21	Rivera	$4,000,000
60DL	36	Hawksworth	$495,000
60DL	41	De La Rosa	$485,000

AAA	13	DeJesus	$86,648
AA	50	Eovaldi	$7,885
AAA	56	Antonini	$7,869

		Manny	$8,087,432	deferred
		Andruw	$3,375,000	deferred
		Pierre	$3,050,000	deferred
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