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Never Fear, Randy Wolf Is Here

Randy Wolf has been a pleasant surprise this season, a rock solid anchor of the rotation.  He has pitched six innings or more in his last 13 starts, and in 25 of 29 starts this season.  He is also having one of the best age 32 seasons in Dodger history.  There have been 24 different Dodger pitchers to qualify for the ERA title in their age 32 season. Here are the 10 best, ranked by ERA+:

Pitcher Year IP W-L ERA+
Jerry Reuss 1981 152.2 10-4 146
Jesse Petty 1927 271.2 13-18 133
Randy Wolf 2009 183.0 9-6 129
Claude Osteen 1972 252.0 20-11 127
Don Sutton 1977 240.1 14-8 121
Whit Wyatt 1940 239.1 15-14 116
Derek Lowe 2005 222.0 12-15 114
Fred Frankhouse 1936 234.1 13-10 113
Luke Hamlin 1937 185.2 11-13 112
Dazzy Vance 1923 280.1 18-15 111

The 21-year old Mat Latos joined the Padres' rotation in mid-July, and has pitched well since.  Out of nine big league starts, he has really only made three bad ones.  Luckily for the Dodgers, those three have come in Latos' last four starts.  Latos has an 8.00 ERA over his last four starts, which is amazing considering he had one great start in that bunch, allowing only two hits in seven scoreless innings in Atlanta.  Splitting time between low Class A and Double A earlier this season, Latos was 8-1 with a 1.37 ERA in 72.1 minor league innings.

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by silverwidow on Sep 5, 2009 4:49 PM PDT reply actions  

Really disappointed to see Furcal up top again. Oh well, Joe knows more about the game and his players then I do but I just don’t get why he’s still leading off.

by KSeal on Sep 5, 2009 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions  

Nobody on this team has any history with Latos. Not sure if that is good or bad.

by delias man on Sep 5, 2009 4:53 PM PDT via mobile reply actions  

This is probably just the obligatory NL West article

but the new Peter Gammons blog actually gives the NL West some credit. Unlike the last “there’s good baseball out west” article, this one talks about the Dodgers quite a bt. Not a bad read.

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4448570&name=gammons_peter

by yolos on Sep 5, 2009 5:26 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 35 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 60 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

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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
56 Matt Chico lhp
29
33 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
28 Jamey Wright rhp
37

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

*Age on June 30, 2012

NRI count: 20

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