Dodger Clippings from around the Dodger Blogging World

I really wish he could break camp with us. After seeing him a couple times this spring, I’m convinced he’s legit. His stuff could play right now at the back of our bullpen, and depending on Beli/Tron, we might be calling on him sooner than later. He actually reminds me a little of Joba Chamberlain.

It just doesn’t make sense now, they really want to keep the 3 guys they have to (Stults, Haegar and Monasterios) plus they can control is appearances much more in AAA than up in LA. Lindblom wouldn’t pass Kuo, Troncoso, Sherrill or Broxton, in terms of getting into the game, they like Haegar as a multi-appearance/week guy who could pitch in the 6th.

Now, if one of those top 4 go down and Belisario does not work out, then I could see it happening, but not now.

Russ got knocked down, hit on the back and wrist. Corcoran was pitching. No damage, but it was a little too uncomfortable to continue.

Not knowing the context I’m going to guess Martin was taking batting practice and they had to cancel it when the BP pitcher got wild.

From dodgerthoughts, via @BloggingBombers: Rule 5 pick Jamie Hoffmann cleared outright waivers and was returned to the Dodgers.

Aybar 6
Abreu 9
Hunter 8
Matsui 7
Morales 3
Kendrick 4
Napoli 2
Wood 5
Mathis DH

Palmer P

Weeks 4
Gomez 8
Braun 7
Fielder 3
McGehee 5
Hart 9
Counsell 6
Treanor 2
Davis 1

Alfredo Amezaga was reassigned to minor league camp…down to 42

Billingsley is pitching tomorrow in the minors since the Dodgers are off.

This is an awful baseball team, just awful. You could release seven or eight guys off the top tiers of the depth chart without blinking. There’s a staggering amount of veteran dead weight, and not the way that the Tigers have it, the dead end of bad contracts handed out in better days. Over the past year the Royals have brought in a bunch of players who occupy the useless zone a notch above replacement-level, guys like Scott Podsednik and Rick Ankiel and Yuniesky Betancourt and Josh Fields and … … Jason Kendall and Kyle Farnsworth and Willie Bloomquist. It’s like a category on “Remote Control”: “Dead or Royal?”

Hoffman was in a battle for a reserve outfield job, but magained just three hits in 23 at-bats this spring (.130). As a Rule 5 pick, he had to be returned to the Dodgers unless he was on the Opening Day roster, which wasn’t going to happen after such a weak spring. There’s been rumors that the Yankees will try to re-acquire him in a trade, which would allow them to assign him to Triple-A until his bat comes around, but there’s nothing confirmed on the trade front just yet.