Welcome Back Vin Scully; Baseball Season Can Now Officially Begin
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 12:32 PM PDT
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PrintIndians (10-5-2) at Dodgers (6-8-1)
1:05pm, Camelback Ranch, Glendale, AZ
The baseball season can now officially begin, because Vin Scully is back to announce Dodger games. He will call today's game on KCAL, his first of the spring, as the Dodgers take on the Indians at Camelback Ranch. Scully this morning recounted his fall from earlier this week. Jim Peltz of the LA Times has all the details. If you needed further proof on how nice and humble a person Scully is, here it is:
In a five-minute session with reporters at the Dodgers' spring-training camp at Camelback Ranch, Scully talked about the outpouring of concern among his fans and said "I do appreciate that immensely and humbly, and I guess that’s why I’m embarrassed to put them through anything at all, especially when it was so simple and harmless."
Eric Stults, vying for the fifth starter spot, will start for the Dodgers. He has only made two starts so far -- two innings in the Cactus League and three innings in Taiwan -- but has yet to give up a hit this spring.
Blake DeWitt is making his 12th start at second base in the Dodgers' 16 games in Arizona. Jamey Carroll and Ronnie Belliard were both in Taiwan with the Dodgers, but when all three second basemen have been in camp together DeWitt has made eight of 11 starts at second, and one of the games he didn't start was the split squad game last night, after DeWitt started the day game.
Russell Martin was busy this morning, batting in a simulated game against minor leaguers Tim Sexton and Sean Thompson, then took batting practice on the field before the game:
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It has been a busy transactional week for the Dodgers, as they have cut their big league camp roster from 61 to 43:
- Monday (10 moves): Optioned Ivan DeJesus, Scott Elbert, Brent Leach, and Travis Schlichting. Reassigned Eric Gagne, John Lindsey, Argenis Reyes, Michael Restovich, and Scott Dohmann to minor league camp; returned Rule 5 pick Armando Zerpa to Boston
- Wednesday (4): Reassigned Juan Perez, Prentice Redman, Trayvon Robinson, and Russell Mitchell to minor league camp
- Friday (1): Optioned Javy Guerra to minor league camp
- Saturday (3): Optioned Lucas May, Jon Link, and James McDonald to minor league camp
Joe Torre is out of town today, and Don Mattingly is managing the club. With that in mind, here are the lineups:
| Indians | Dodgers | |||
| SS | Cabrera | CF | Paul | |
| CF | Sizemore | 2B | DeWitt |
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| DH | Hafner | RF | Ethier |
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| RF | Kearns | 1B | Loney | |
| 3B | Rodriguez | LF | Anderson |
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| 1B | Duncan | DH | Belliard | |
| LF | Brantley | 3B | Green | |
| C | Marson | SS | Hu | |
| 2B | Valbuena | C | Closser | |
| P | Westbrook | P | Stults | |
Ramon Troncoso and Aaron Miller are scheduled to follow Stults on the mound for the Dodgers.
Pitchers scheduled to follow Jake Westbrook for the Indians are Mike Goslin, Frank Herrmann, Josh Judy, Chris Perez and Joe Smith.
TV: KCAL
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Ethier
Minors: .317/.389/.464/.853 OPS
Majors: .291/.363/.490/.853 OPS
Less contact/on-base ability in exchange for more power at the ML level.
Dodger minor leaguers suiting up today
with numbers:
Pitchers
78 Juan Perez
93 Aaron Miller
94 Jesus Castillo
95 Hyang-Nam Choi
Catchers
87 Esteban Lopez
92 Ryan Arp
Infielders
63 Argenis Reyes
69 Rafael Ynoa
90 Elian Herrera
91 Chris Henderson
Outfielders
66 Brian Barton
84 Jovanny Rosario
96 Jerry Sands
Carlos Santana is not here with Cleveland
Chris Henderson was a 21st rounder last year out of George Mason.
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Only Miller and Sands interest me from that whole group.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
+1
dont see anybody else interesting either except those 2
Another great Vin quote
from the Peltz post:
Asked if he now had any restrictions on his daily activity, Scully joked: "I’m supposed to cut back on dangling participles ,and I’m not allowed to split an infinitive for at least another week, but otherwise no."
Awesome.
for the first and only time this year...
I HATE KCAL!!
and it looks like MLB has cleaned out most links I am aware of, so I guess it is here in the game thread and gameday for me.
Yeah, I've been relegated to gameday all spring training. Such a bummer...
I caught the first withrow game, and that was it. At least I saw that…
X Paul probably hopes Torre doesn’t extend his contract.
by Little Blue Bicycle on Mar 21, 2010 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
How bizarre is it that
he had no DP chances before today? Seems very unusual to me.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
9 pitch inning for Stults
20 pitches through 2
8 balls, 12 strikes
1st pitch strike to 4 of 6 batters
stultz????
how is his new cutter doing???
has anyone seen him throw it?
a fastball cutter changeup curveball lefty who can throw 90 MPH will be an excellent 5th starter… especially one with stults changeup..
lets hop his cutter actually cuts… i heard its not that hard to learn how to throw a cutter
but as a starter he throws it
just for the hitters to know that he has it and it can be used is good enough…
Stults with 3 shutout innings. He’s a workmanlike pitcher that doesn’t excite anyone.
by silverwidow on Mar 21, 2010 1:38 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
14 pitch inning for Stults
34 through 3
12 balls, 22 strikes
1st pitch strike to 5 of 9 hitters
Stults this spring (two “A” games & one gm in Taiwan): 8 innings, 0 hits, 0 runs, 3 walks, 7 strikeouts
I like to call you maffew. But I’ve been too polite to do so until you pushed it.
Stults.
by berkowit28 on Mar 21, 2010 2:52 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
The only lefty that might WOW us today will be A. Miller. It’s rare that a southpaw can dial it up to 95 mph (as noted by BA).
its BS
he can barely throw it harder then stultz right now…
gameday had him hitting 92 as his highest in his 1 inning stints in the afl..
and midwest league announcer were saying he would work at 89 90 but throw it exaclty where he wanted to…
and we already have a great lefty throwing it 95 in kershaw
Aaaaaaand....
it comes back to bite him.
2-run jack…3-0 Cleveland
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
What a shot by Michigan State
buzzer beater, beats Maryland
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Any chance this outing could be his undoing as the 5th starter?
Or will Torre give him another chance?
No
but they are basically going to setup the schedule for the final two weeks of spring based on the rotation, including dropping guys who aren’t going to make it.
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Seems extreme that he would not get another chance
He’d only gone three innings max headed into today.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
From what I’ve read just today he looked really bad, and Torre seems to be the kind of manager who makes knee jerk reactions. I could be incredibly wrong, though.
He was fine, very efficient even through 3 innings. Then he just couldn’t get his curve over for a strike and lost it.
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I like Monasterios in the 5th spot and Ramon O as the long man.
I say trade Stults. He bores me to tears, I’m sorry.
I don't mind being bored by the 5th guy in the rotation
I’d like to see him get at least 10 starts.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Who do we have
that is going to be on the 25 man roster to replace Casey Blake as the beard? Is it going to be DeWitt or Tron? Is there someone I’m forgetting about? Eye-chart, if he makes it, is 5 o’clock shadow guy. :)
Brutal final inning for Stults
well, 1/3 of an inning…
29 pitches in the 4th (17 balls)
63 for the game
29 balls, 34 strikes
1st pitch strike to 7 of 14 hitters
(At least a) 3-ball count to final six hitters he faced.
KeithC is currently the leader of the Xeifrank Bracket
Yours Truly is 2nd even though my MidWest bracket was destroyed.
Mike White currently 3rd.
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both Georgetown and Kansas
I had Georgtown losing to Kentucky in the finals.
On the plus I did have Cornell getting to the Sweet 16
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Why is the crowd so small today
after such huge crowds?
Just started watching the game.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Good question
Perhaps these are a churchgoing people here :)
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Could be that Sunday’s the day a lot of people drive home?
by berkowit28 on Mar 21, 2010 2:59 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Its really nice
after a week without baseball to have the first thing I see be a Dodger hit one out.
Gameday
is all I have. But it seemed until Stults lost it both pitchers had very low pitch counts. He should get a good shot at starting.
How many starts is the
5th guy going to get in the first month? Looking at the schedule, it can’t be too many.
There are only three off days in 26 days (Apr 5-30), and they are spread out such that you can’t really skip anyone (there are too many periods of 5 or 10 straight games).
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
April 5 – opening day
April 6 – off day
then 5 straight games
April 12 – off day
April 13 – home opener, 1st of 6 straight games)
April 19 – off day
April 20 – 1st of 13 straight games
So that’s 25 games, and likely 5 starts for all 5 starters
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
In fact
They have 60 games in their first 66 days of the season. The 5th starter will be used a ton.
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t know if Torre would send the opening day guy out to start the 2nd game of the Florida series on full rest rather than the 5th starter. but with that many games and so few days off in April, I can see why he wouldn’t. Thanks
Torre specifically mentioned this in talking about the whole opening day starter choice, that the #2 starter would end up starting the home opener, so it’s…
#1
off day
#2
#3
#4
#5
#1
off day
- (home opener)
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I have been away from my cpu for the last couple of days, so I haven’t had a chance to read all of the posts. I’m sure you’ve mentioned it before. Thanks for re-hashing for the slow kid… :)
No problem at all
I’m not even sure if I did mention that or not anyway.
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
How many times do you see it...
guy makes a good play in the field, then leads off the next inning
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm glad
for the Twins and him. Like Silverwidow said earlier in another post….I couldn’t bear the thought of him playing for the Yankees or Red Sox.
I'm glad he's on the Twins
good for baseball. Kudo’s all the way around for getting it done.
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Xavier Paul was playing some of the shallowest CF ever and it went well over his head…then he bobbled the ball, allowing runner to score.
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
3rd batter
Luis Valbuena…
was late on a couple balls, fouled them off to 3B side, then grounded out 4-3
I've changed my mind
It’s a triple plus an error, for better comedy (playing up the Seinfeld connection on Dodger Thoughts)
Even more fitting
this pinch hitter…Newman!!! (Romero)
by Eric Stephen on Mar 21, 2010 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
How many times has Honeycutt done the meeting at the pitcher mound and then the pitcher gives up a home run routine?
With Joe Nathan
down for the year, what are Twins going to do? I know they have Jon Rausch (sp?) and Matt Guerrier as the guys they have tagged for the job. I would be worried if I were a Twins fan. Would they make a run at Sherrill if these guys suck it up?
I expect them to make a deal
the internal options are not very good. Rauch has imploded in that role before, Guerrier doesn’t have the stuff. Neshek has the best stuff but is just now coming off of TJ surgery. Crain was once good but doesn’t have what he once had.
It may not be Sherrill they target but they will target someone besides the internal crew no matter how optimistic they talk about them.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Edwin Jackson having a tough spring
8.00 ERA after today.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
And Lincecum's ERA...
…is over 9.00, and he has more walks than IP. The only spring training performances that matter are those of players with no MLB job security. Double standard all the way.
by CanuckDodger on Mar 21, 2010 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
My first look at Jesus Castillo
Once upon a time I thought he’d be able to handle a back of the rotation spot.
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What does that mean for the Dodgers though? The Dodgers have so many talented starting pitching prospects that a guy like Jesus Castillo shouldn’t have the prospect of starting for the Dodgers. He should be behind (and is) guys like like Elbert, McDonald, Withrow, and Lindblom
Right Now What Is Depressing Me About Our Farm-Produced Pitching...
…is that Elbert, McDonald, and Stults all look less worthy of being the #5 starter than Monasterios, an obscure arm from the Phillies’ farm that the Phillies didn’t even care about enough to protect from the Rule 5 draft. And since Monasterios only has limited experience in Double A, he should be BEHIND Elbert, McDonald, and Stults on the development curve — far behind.
Eric, please confront somebody within the Dodger organization with that. I feel like somebody should answer for that.
by CanuckDodger on Mar 21, 2010 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
To be fair
Stults got whacked in the 4th, and Troncoso gave up a few himself. Miller was really smacked around but if Matt Kemp had been playing CF there is the very likely possibility that he would have had a 1 – 2 – 3 inning.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Gerry Sands makes his debut as a base runner for Belliard
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/perezju01.shtml?redir
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I have zero idea why this guy is in our camp
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Ynoa? Rosario?
Dodgers ran out of players I see. ;-)
Looks like Stults had 3 good innings… and should’ve stopped there. Was Troncoso as bad as the line score? And I won’t even count Aaron Miller’s Troubles. Guess I didn’t miss much though.
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Game Recap Up
http://www.truebluela.com/2010/3/21/1383978/game-recap-stults-tkod-in-fourth
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