Dodgers Recall DeWitt, Hu

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 10:22 AM PDT in Roster Comment 29 comments

The Dodgers have added to their bench today, recalling infielders Blake DeWitt and Chin-Lung Hu from Triple A Albuquerque. The Isotopes' season ended on Friday night when they were eliminated by Memphis in the first round of the PCL playoffs.

This is DeWitt's sixth stint with the Dodgers this season. DeWitt, who started all eight Dodger playoff games at second base last season, has five hits in 32 at-bats with the big club in 2009.

This is Hu's first time with the Dodgers this season. Hu hit .294/.332/.393 in Albuqeurque this season.

This is a formality more than anything, but the fact that DeWitt and Hu were recalled means they can't be among the PTBNL candidates to complete the Jon Garland trade. That player will still almost certainly be Tony Abreu, but officially the Diamondbacks won't choose the player from the list provided by the Dodgers until October 15. DeWitt and Hu being on the roster eliminates them from consideration since a player to be named later can't play in the same league he is traded to in between the time of the trade and the time he is named.

The Dodgers now have 34 players on the active roster.

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strike two names from the PTBNL list.

Assuming the player is on the 40 man roster, I’d say its Leach, Abreu, Schlichting, Wade, or Lucas May.

Darkhorse is Paul Xavier.

by Tripon on Sep 13, 2009 10:29 AM PDT reply actions

The Dodgers, who lead the majors in ERA, have now overtaken the Giants in ERA+ as well, 122 to 121.

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 10:37 AM PDT reply actions

How is ERA+ caculated?

park factors don’t take into effect until after the season. And the Dodgers larger amount of innings over the Giants should be helpful to their ERA+ ranking.

by Tripon on Sep 13, 2009 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions

Innings don’t matter. Baseball-Reference uses 2-year park factors for seasons in progress, and 3-year PF besides that:

Historically, B-R has been using single-year park factors for recent years and 3-year park factors historically. I have changed that to now use 3-year factors by default for all years. Of course, the current season is only really a 2-year factor. The current year and last year. This can lead to some big changes in the numbers, from what had been on the site.

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions

ERA+ = 100*(lgERA/ERA), and adjusted to ballpark

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions

Giants lineup

Molina sits. No Posey, again. Per Andrew Baggarly of the Contra-Costa Times:

CF Torres
2B Sanchez
LF Winn
3B Sandoval
RF Schierholtz
SS Uribe
1B Ishikawa
C Whiteside
P Penny

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 10:57 AM PDT reply actions

I'll never bitch about Furcal leading off again. :)

by Tripon on Sep 13, 2009 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions

Whiteside starting over Posey

just sheer madness.

by Michael White on Sep 13, 2009 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions

House money

Manny and O-Dog are sitting today, per the pregame show, but I haven’t seen the full lineup yet.

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 11:11 AM PDT reply actions

Start for Repko?

by Michael White on Sep 13, 2009 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions

doubt it.

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions

Is Hudson hurt?

Can’t believe the Dodgers are sitting Hudson down for about $50Ks of incentives.

by Tripon on Sep 13, 2009 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions

Torre mentioned he is struggling, and that’s why he’s sitting.

Hudson only has 50 more incentive PA left. He’s have to miss about 6 more games, besides today, to not hit all those.

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions

Dodger lineup

Furcal SS
Pierre LF
Ethier RF
Kemp CF
Loney 1B
Blake 3B
Belliard 2B
Martin C
Bills P

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions

If Wolf’s bullpen session goes well today, he will start Tuesday. Otherwise, it will be Haeger or Weaver.

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 11:12 AM PDT reply actions

Marc Sanchez shows that he could have beaten out Barkley this year at USC.

by Tripon on Sep 13, 2009 11:44 AM PDT reply actions

Sanchez shows that he'll have a better career than Palmer

He’s absolutely incredible for a rookie. It’s Matt Ryan all over again.

by silverwidow on Sep 13, 2009 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions

st. louis down 6-0, philly up 4-0

William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.

by Ollie on Sep 13, 2009 11:57 AM PDT reply actions

Its pretty remarkable that the Dodgers are the only one who has a stable bullpen/closer right now.

by Tripon on Sep 13, 2009 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions

I wonder what Lidge's problem is

by Connector on Sep 13, 2009 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions

yay.

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions

The Phillies have played 4 less games over the Cards and Dodgers.

by Tripon on Sep 13, 2009 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions

3 less

Phils have 2 doubleheaders left, including today, and 2 off days.

Dodgers and Cards each have 3 off days left.

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Carpenter is not untouchable, folks

by pdotmac1 on Sep 13, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions

braves beating up on the cards

theyre up 7-0
good to see carp look mortal for once.. :)

by shaqfor3 on Sep 13, 2009 12:44 PM PDT reply actions

oh

if the cards go on to lose
and we win…we take a 2 game lead over them for best record in the NL
which can be crucial in the postseason

by shaqfor3 on Sep 13, 2009 12:46 PM PDT reply actions

first round matchups are still the same unless the Braves or Marlins win the WC.

by Tripon on Sep 13, 2009 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Pretty sure he’s looking ahead to the NLCS

by Eric Stephen on Sep 13, 2009 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Chad sucks

Hello!!!!!! Can you put him in the bullpen ,( send him back down for theraphy) When hes schedualed to win you might as well not even watch , its too painfull , even his teammates know they are loosing that day.
He has lost it , My Mom can hit him and shes 85.

by SARA S on Sep 14, 2009 9:35 AM PDT reply actions

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NL West Standings

	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Diego Gaslamp Ball	79	59	.572	0	Won 3
San Francisco McCovey Chronicles	78	62	.557	2	Lost 1
Colorado Purple Row	75	64	.539	4.5	Won 6
Los Angeles True Blue LA	69	71	.492	11	Lost 5
Arizona AZ Snakepit	57	83	.407	23	Won 1

(updated 9.8.2010 at 10:10 PM PDT)

2010 Dodger Payroll

Pos	No	Player	2010 Salary
C	28	Barajas	$117,486
1B	7	Loney	$3,100,000
2B	13	Theriot	$909,290
3B	23	Blake	$6,000,000
SS	15	Furcal	$8,500,000
LF	21	Podsednik	$640,710
CF	27	Kemp	$4,000,000
RF	16	Ethier	$6,000,000

SS/2B/3B	14	Carroll	$1,475,000
OF	5	Johnson	$850,000
OF/1B	31	Gibbons	$155,738
C	12	Ausmus	$850,000
C	17	Ellis	$332,241
IF	60	Hu	$74,350
PH/1B	35	Lindsey	$61,202
1B/3B	9	Mitchell	$61,202
OF	49	Oeltjen	$59,016

SP	22	Kershaw	$440,000
SP	58	Billingsley	$3,850,000
SP	18	Kuroda	$14,100,000
SP	29	Lilly	$1,696,721
SP	44	Padilla	$4,025,000

CL	56	Kuo	$950,000
RHP	51	Broxton	$4,000,000
RHP	26	Dotel	$636,612
RHP	74	Jansen	$159,563
RHP	54	Belisario	$297,541
RHP	38	Troncoso	$297,792
RHP	36	Weaver	$800,000
LHP	52	Sherrill	$4,500,000
RHP	37	Monasterios	$460,000
RHP	48	Ely	$222,951
RHP	50	Link	$109,649

DL	59	Schlichting	$185,792
60DL	55	Martin	$5,050,000

		Manny	$7,267,760
		Pierre	$4,000,000
		Andruw	$3,600,000
		Schmidt	$2,000,000
		Wolf	$2,000,000
		Hudson	$1,440,000
		Nomar	$1,250,000
		Belliard	$825,000
		Anderson	$409,699
		Ra.Ortiz	$349,727
AAA	45	Miller	$292,623
		DeWitt	$266,612
		Ohman	$200,000
AAA	49	Haeger	$195,393
AAA	47	Wade	$194,514
AAA	30	Paul	$131,147
		Repko	$122,951
		Green	$96,175
		Ru.Ortiz	$63,934
		Taschner	$39,344
		Zerpa	$35,000
		Castro	$32,787
		McDonald	$28,771
AAA	57	Elbert	$6,557
AAA		Hoffmann	($25,000)
		Stults	($400,000)

Totals			$99,389,730

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