Dodgers Finalize Matt Kemp Contract; Film At 11
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 9:50 AM PST
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PrintIt's official, or at least will be at 11 a.m. PST when the Dodgers hold a press conference at Dodger Stadium. Matt Kemp will be with the Dodgers through 2019. The All-Star center fielder on Friday finalized his eight-year, $160 million contract extension with the club, the largest contract in National League history.
Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times has the breakdown:
$2 million signing bonus
2012: $10 million (of which $2 million is deferred without interest until 2013)
2013: $20 million (plus $2 million deferred from 2012)
2014: $21 million
2015: $21 million
2016: $21.5 million
2017: $21.5 million
2018: $21.5 million
2019: $21.5 million
Kemp sits high atop the list of Dodgers contracts in total value:
- Kemp: eight years, $160 million (2012-2019)
- Kevin Brown: seven years, $105 million (1999-2005)
- Shawn Green: six years, $84 million (2000-2005)
- Darren Dreifort: five years, $55 million (2001-2005)
- J.D. Drew: five years, $55 million (2005-2009; included player opt out after two years)
- Jason Schmidt: three years, $47 million (2007-2009)
- Manny Ramirez: two years, $45 million (2009-2010; second year was a player option)
- Juan Pierre: five years, $44 million (2007-2011)
- Rafael Furcal: three years, $39 million (2006-2008)
- Andruw Jones: two years, $36.2 million (2008-2009)
With reports this week that the Dodgers payroll is expected to be less in 2012 than it was in 2011, the structuring of Kemp's contract plays a large role in determining what free agent starting pitcher will be brought in. The payroll last year ended up at just under $115 million, not too far off the $113 million on opening day. With Kemp getting $10 million next year, far less than he would have received through arbitration, the 2012 payroll is estimated at $106.5 million. It gives the team more flexibility than they would have had, but doesn't leave a lot of room to bring back Hiroki Kuroda, unless a large chunk of his salary is deferred.
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Kemp is laughing because CK had to borrow one of Broxton’s jackets for the press conference yesterday.
how does his wife let him out the door looking like that
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
I thought they were high school sweethearts which would make them near the same age, no?
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:01 AM PST up reply actions
My guess is Deliasman pulled a number out of a hat
and it was 19.
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Must have been Stephen King’s hat
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Nov 18, 2011 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
I couldn’t be happier about the Kemp extension. Kemp & Piazza are neck and neck as my all time favorite players….the fact Piazza was never signed long term makes me enjoy Kemp’s extension that much more!
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by VeroJoe on Nov 18, 2011 9:53 AM PST via mobile reply actions
I am simply overjoyed by this deal.
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by Little Blue Bicycle on Nov 18, 2011 10:04 AM PST up reply actions
The fact that Piazza never signed an extension is what took him out of the running for one of my favorite players.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Can you elaborate?
Piazza’s departure coincided with my “break” from baseball. IIRC, he was offered an extension but wanted to test the open-market? What was the final extension offer the Dodgers put on the table?
How much more did he actually get from the Met’s? Not much right?
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
He wanted to crack the 100M barrier. I think the Dodgers’ offer was in the 6/90 range. He gave some silly ultimatum, saying if you don’t give me my money, then I’m testing the market. They called his bluff and sent him off.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
I don’t know if it was silly, he simply said what most have said, make the deal before the season starts or we won’t negotiate again until after the season.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:32 AM PST up reply actions
It’s silly if you’re sincere about wanting to stay with the team for the long haul.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Everyone does that, don’t see how it is silly, they have all winter, nothing gets done, time to concentrate on playing baseball.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
Best multi year contract in Dodger history with only Shawn Green and Kevin Brown even in the conversation. Not often you get your man for his peak years.
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Say he has a year as good as 2009 this upcoming year, just with a bit more home run power
and doesn’t sign this extension, but goes off to free agency.
What kind of deal does he look for out there? I’d have to guess he gets close to 200 million.
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I thought all along he could get a $200 million deal next year. If you are going to pay POS players 4 Million you might as well pay the super stars $25 Million
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:03 AM PST up reply actions
Sign superstars to $20mm contracts
Don’t sign POS players period. new market efficiency? lol
I’m pretty sure I’d go with Stars and Scrubs teams feeling my scrubs would at least produce at the same level the other GM’s are paying $4 Million for.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
I remember you talking about that months ago
Honestly how shocked are you about the extension
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Very, one of most pleasant shocks I’ve had related to the Ned Colleti Dodgers.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:17 AM PST up reply actions
Excellent question, why was he omitted?
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I think the Lowe deal so far has been the best multi year deal the Dodgers have given out in that he produced every single year.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:01 AM PST up reply actions
So paying players that may have seemed mediocre sometimes works out.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
I remember the deal well, the ERA was high but when you dug deeper the ground ball rate is what got your attention. I don’t recall being upset with the Lowe deal after we dug into his peripherals.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
4.22 xFIP and 3.5 fWAR the prior year. Considering he was moving from the AL to the NL, you should have expected a bit of an improvement in xFIP (and he did.) In his four years in LA, he put up an fWAR of 15.5. For the four years prior (and fWAR adjusts for NL vs. AL) he put up an fWAR of 14.9, so right in the same range. It was a great buy and his performance in LA made sense once you dug into the numbers.
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 10:25 AM PST up reply actions
No, but I had xERA from Baseball HQ which was basically the same thing.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:27 AM PST up reply actions
No doubt. fWAR either. I’m working in hindsight.
I’m guessing the periphs Phil had available to him at the time were the same sort of things (if GB rates rather than normalized HR/FB rates)
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 10:28 AM PST up reply actions
I’m fairly certain Reg did some good work on the Lowe deal and came out with a thumbs up. Back then he was our goto sabr guy at Dodger Thoughts. He’d post what he thought on TBLA, Jon Weisman would link to it, we’d read it at TBLA, come back to Dodger Thoughts and discuss it.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
There was another really good Dodgers blogger who wrote some great analysis of the Lowe signing (I want to say his name was Tom) who stopped blogging shortly after the signing. Any idea who that was?
Yeah, that’s it. I remember reading a terrific analysis of the Lowe signing from him. Kind of got me started on sabermetrics and Dodgers blogs. Found DT through him.
Yea, I think he was the first Dodger Blogger I ever read, and then Dodger Thoughts.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 11:09 AM PST up reply actions
He's a facebook friend
but he posts even more rarely than I do
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
The general thought at the time IIRC was that it wasn’t the worst thing ever because of Lowe’s ground ball rate (new Dodgers Jose Valentin and Jeff Kent rated highly on defense, defying the conventional wisdom), and that Lowe didn’t allow too many homers and Dodger Stadium would suppress his doubles and triples.
But it was definitely something to be talked into.
Lowe’s postseason run in 2004 made him the extra cash. He won the clinching game in all three Red Sox postseason series.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
He was awesome that post season but I’m not that Depo would have cared enough about post – season performance to bump his contract up. He got what Depo felt he was worth.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:37 AM PST up reply actions
The only time he pitched less than 200 innings for LAD was 2007
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
Wow. I thought the total value was definitely in the $40s…
Great contract
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 9:59 AM PST up reply actions
Definitely
A far cry from the expletives I yelled at the BART station in Oakland when I heard of the deal. “Why the fuck did we give $36 million to a guy with a 5 ERA last year?”
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:03 AM PST up reply actions
We should send Dave Stewart some flowers. I’m very impressed they choose to stay here.
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Both Dylan H and Ken G had reports saying the payroll would be less than in 2011.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:00 AM PST up reply actions
Still seems silly to have signed Rivera and Ellis before finding out if Kuroda was coming back. Unless he defers a ton we can’t fit him in right now unless we jettison either Andre, Loney, or find a way to remove Uribe/Gurrier contacts.
Still seems silly to have signed Rivera and Ellis even if Kuroda was not coming back so we could at least explore FA pitching options with some flexibility
Still seems silly to have signed Rivera and Ellis if we have payroll issues.
Still seems silly to have signed Rivera and Ellis
At least Matt’s deal gives us a shot to hook in a Capuano or Harang.
Yet Matt Kemp is here forever so whatever Ned has done this winter to irritate me, that alone means I can’t complain so I’ll shut my trap for a while.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:13 AM PST up reply actions
Man, I loved me some Darren Dreifort
The contract was an albatross, but he had some truly sick stuff on the mound.
They call me the thread killer
It was always, “If only Dreifort stays healthy” or “once Dreifort is healthy, we are gonna kick ass!”
Dreifort was healthy and in the rotation one year in the early 2000s and that was my dream pitching rotation. Kevin Brown, Dreifort, Odalis, Nomo and somebody else. It didn’t last long.
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
It was 2003. As reg points out, the Dodgers 2003 pitching staff has a legitimate argument for best of all time.
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 10:13 AM PST up reply actions
Eric Karros was on PMS yesterday and said that Dreifort has had 26 or 27 surgeries from the start of his career until now. That number is mind blowing.
by UCLADodger32 on Nov 18, 2011 10:09 AM PST up reply actions
favorite dreifort moment
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN200007050.shtml we were sitting prolly 20 rows back from the wall at SD and he hit it straight over us into the 2nd deck at qualcomm. when i was at qualcomm last week i told my 15 year old bro in law about the most majestic HR i ever saw in this park, showed him where home plate used to be, and how far it went. He could care less.
He could hit, that is why I wanted him to be starter instead of a reliever just so I could watch him hit.
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:16 AM PST up reply actions
That is what throwing knifes is for, just ask Charles Bronson
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
1993 Draft
Why did Seattle get the #1 pick in the 1993 draft with a 64-98 record over the Dodgers and their 63-99 record?
They alternated leagues.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
They alternated the worst NL/AL teams for #1 pick like they used to for home-field advantage? WHAT.THE.FUCK. I know I’m almost 20 years late with the sour grapes, but WHAT THE FUCK kind of bullshit is that? Because we sucked in the wrong year, we ended up with Darren Dreifort instead of A-Rod?
Yup. Ah, what could have been.
Rumor has it that Seattle could have gone either way with that pick. They liked Dreifort a lot too.
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
A-Rod didn’t want the Mariners to draft him, he wanted to come to LA. The Mariners didn’t care and drafted him anyway, so the Dodgers settled on Drefort
This is killing me. It’s like finding out 20 years down the road that Heather Locklear had a crush on you in high school and was waiting for you to ask her out.
But then somebody asked her out before you could, and they got married, and then divorced, and you realized she was a tramp, but you still know she would have been worth it for the time you could have had her
by Billyum on Nov 18, 2011 12:02 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
“4th Time Around” is brilliant, funny, engaging. I could listen to this Dylan stuff til my head falls off.
I love that song
The line “I never asked for your crutch, now don’t ask for mine” was apparently a shot at John Lennon.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
I heard about that
Dylan didn’t like him lifting his style with Norwegian Wood. Another fucking brilliant song.
by silverwidow on Nov 18, 2011 10:16 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah. Those two songs are perfect when listened to in tandem.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:17 AM PST up reply actions
Dylan
Just can’t get into it. This is why I was not born too late.
by bhsportsguy on Nov 18, 2011 10:17 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
The secret for me at least: stick to early Dylan. Everything after Blood on the Tracks (1974) is crap.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
“It’s Alright, Ma” has been stuck in my head for weeks. Rhymes are just so damned great.
by silverwidow on Nov 18, 2011 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
At one point I had those lyrics memorized but I don’t think I could get through it right now without cheating. Love it.
Gates of Eden too.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
I like Desire (1976), but generally, yeah.
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Silverwidow, another song I sort of put in that category is Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues. Absurd, yet funny storytelling. Great lyrics.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
If I ever listened to Dylan
that is what would happen to me. My head would fall off
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by Greg Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
He's polarizing
But I love it. Such a sarcastic son of a bitch, too.
by silverwidow on Nov 18, 2011 10:27 AM PST up reply actions
I enjoy his stuff in general, but he is without question the worst performer I have ever paid real money to see.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
You've never seen The Cars live then, have you?
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by Greg Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:32 AM PST up reply actions
I went with my best friends girl
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
When I saw them, it certainly wasn't magic for me
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by Greg Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:34 AM PST up reply actions
“He wasn’t just what I needed.”
-Greg’s girlfriend, after said concert
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:42 AM PST up reply actions
“Life’s the same, except for my shoes.”
"It takes a special fan to root for a last place moribund bankrupt franchise."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Nov 18, 2011 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
I did
Robotic performance that sounded exactly like the record. Not much too it. This was the Candy-O tour.
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in the NBA there is a “max salary” a player can get. in the MLB i see kemp is going to be getting 21.5 for the last 4 years of the deal. i wonder if contracts are ever written in MLB where the player gets the most money during the most productive years
so in this case im wondering if kemp’s contract “could have” been written as 23/23/20/20 as opposed to 21.5 × 4? in the NBA salaries increase by a set amount per season which is why that bell shaped curve contract never exists. just wondering if its possible here.
I heard the other day (and am too lazy to verify)
that A-Rod’s salary is at it’s peak now and will decrease throughout the remainder of the contract.
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by Greg Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
Yep
2008:$27m ($2m signing bonus)
2009:$32m ($1m signing bonus)
2010:$32m ($1m signing bonus)
2011:$31m ($1m signing bonus)
2012:$29m ($1m signing bonus)
2013:$28m ($1m signing bonus)
2014:$25m (+$3m signing bonus)
2015:$21m
2016:$20m
2017:$20m
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
Too Much Moneyball
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
I don't know if this has been talked about
When people say Halladay faced tougher competition than Kershaw in terms of win/loss records why should that matter? If they want to use tougher competition as a metric to judge against, wouldn’t they use a team’s offensive ranking?
With some quick research, Kershaw had 12 starts against top 10 offenses (using runs/game), Halladay had 8. Against bottom 10 teams, Kershaw had 15 starts, Halladay had 17. There’s more research to do there, but I wanted to see what you guys think.
I think definitely yes, looking at offenses is the way to go rather than team itself. The Giants for instance were a winning team but their offense was piss poor.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 10:56 AM PST up reply actions
its hard to do
because are they arguing about stats like wins/losses, which are team based or are the arguing about things like FIP which are opponents offense based. If it is the latter then you want to look at the opposing offenses and park adjust. And then to do it right, you want to just look at the individual batters he faced, not so much the teams. Could turn in to a science project, but I’m sure somebody could do it.
That seems like a ton of work
If Kershaw had lost, then I’d be motivated to prove he should have won. If i get really bored at work, I could look into it. I figured that you would have an idea of how to get an in depth look at it
Let the Bison bow.
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by Little Blue Bicycle on Nov 18, 2011 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Or the Nation of Islam
by Tim Crews' Dastardly Mustache on Nov 18, 2011 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
prediction
He will be on some best dressed list in Esquire or GQ
dude is on time right now
by Hollywood Joe on Nov 18, 2011 11:11 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
He looks like a bloody idiot
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
Captain Peacock
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 11:14 AM PST up reply actions
So
coats aren’t supposed to button nowadays? It still looks like a bad fit to me. But I’m old and cranky
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
they could BOTH be too short
can’t tell with his elbows crooked like that
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Yeah, they clearly are shortened because of his bent elbows. Sure looks like they would be long enough and the proper length
I'm just giving marty the benefit of the doubt
its not one of my smarter decisions :-p
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He looks like a maître d’
with that bow tie. The suit is too tight. Clothes should hang on you slightly, not form fit.
Now you there, yeah you. Get the fuck off my lawn
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Marty, if you had Matt Kemp’s physique, you’d buy more form-fitting clothes too.
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It could button
Blazers and coats: High arm holes, softer construction and snug on the shoulder, tailored for a close fit through the waist. Sleeves at wrist to show a bit of shit cuff
Pants: Lower rise, fit through the glutes, narrower legs, and shorter in length than americans have worn since the 50’s
Ties: Rep ties, not too wide, slim is better than skinny for most occasions
by Hollywood Joe on Nov 18, 2011 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure I would like absurd at any occasion
with a sikinny tie
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
go slim on the tie, but not skinny
narrower collar on your dress shirt + narrower lapel on your jacket
by Hollywood Joe on Nov 18, 2011 11:23 AM PST up reply actions
Agreed.
Wear the skinny black tie if you’re going for the Mod/Paul Weller look. Otherwise, slim is in.
by Captain Peacock on Nov 18, 2011 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
at an ESPN interview ...
Kemp admitted he’s got a fettish for socks.
by Venergy on Nov 18, 2011 12:29 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Listening to 710, hoping they would go live to the Dodgers press conference. So far, no. This is painful.
Nevermind Kemp’s outfit, Ned has brown boots with a black suit. Lame
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
Ned would have never been able to walk past the guards without them noticing like Andy Dufresne.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
You can tell a lot about a man from his shoes.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
how about his slippers?
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 11:28 AM PST up reply actions
Do they not actually have a dedicated media room at Dodger Stadium? That thing looks like it’s the living room at some foreclosed home.
by Tim Crews' Dastardly Mustache on Nov 18, 2011 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
I was thinking about making the exact same comment
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 11:24 AM PST up reply actions
When you build something in early 60s
A large media center is not in the plans. Also there isn’t a lot of room to put something like that together. When I say that the layout at Camelback makes Dodger Stadium seem even older than it is, I am not kidding.
by bhsportsguy on Nov 18, 2011 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
They have a room in the bowels of the stadium down the LF line that they use for postgame stuff in the postseason, but yeah they basically don’t have one.
Anything big they almost always just use the Stadium Club.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
When they signed Torre didn’t they use the field?
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I guess that too. Kershaw yesterday as well
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
Manny’s resigning was also outdoors, in Arizona.
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by Little Blue Bicycle on Nov 18, 2011 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
“I’ve been here working out since 6 a.m. Where you been? -Manny
“I’ve been here the past 6 weeks” -Kemp
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
Should have signed the extension right then and there.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 11:34 AM PST up reply actions
Is that Frank’s shiny pate behind it?
"It takes a special fan to root for a last place moribund bankrupt franchise."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Nov 18, 2011 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
Frank’s starting to remind me of Tom Cruise in “Taps.” Ronny Cox may have to come in with the army to pry him out.
"It takes a special fan to root for a last place moribund bankrupt franchise."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Nov 18, 2011 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
I got a lifetime acheivement award today
but I give myself one of those every morning
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Is that what they call it now?
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
You know who is going to be the second biggest loser in this whole McCourt business
Or third if the top two are Frank and Jamie (and then the fans so maybe fourth).
Fox.
Look, if Frank and Jamie settle their business quietly, Fox probably could have gotten another under market deal for the rights to all the Dodger games for many years to come.
But now, they know that at best, they have those rights for another 2 years and that the Bankruptcy Court could easily allow an auction to take place for those rights now.
The Court could also invalidate their existing contract but I don’t think they will do that.
This is why Fox is battling the Dodgers now. And also they know that MLB basically sold them out.
Jed Hoyer on new Cubs manager Dale Sveum
per Carrie Muskat:
Hoyer mentioned that there was a "wow" moment early in the actual interview with Sveum. Epstein agreed.
"Dale provided extremely well thought out answers to nuanced baseball questions instantaneously, answer after answer after answer," Epstein said. "We came up for air and took a break and looked at each other and said ‘Wow.’ This was not the type of thing you could fake. It wasn’t that he prepared for the interview but he spent a lifetime as a very intelligent person observing the game with an open mind to come up with his own baseball philosophy on how to win and it was very impressive."
Expect Sveum to think outside the box a little. If he needs his closer in the eighth inning, he’ll use him then. He believes in five infielders in certain situations.
"It’s about winning the game," Epstein said.
Expect Sveum to think outside the box a little. If he needs his closer in the eighth inning, he’ll use him then. He believes in five infielders in certain situations.
I like this. We’ll see if it sticks once the egos and what not come into play
You can expect Zambrano to bat sixth in days he’s pitching and playing 1st in games he’s not:)
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
When he's not pitching
he’s back in his straight-jacket
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Checking your bank balance on your phone and seeing the signing bonus direct deposit is up there.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 18, 2011 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
Gurnick
“I want other big-time free agents to consider L.A. as a team that they want to be a part of,” Kemp said. “I want to win as many games as we can and get to the World Series. It is a great city and a great organization to be a part of.”
Kemp just called himself a big time free agent :)
by Michael White on Nov 18, 2011 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
Here's a real test of some baseball knowledge
http://www.sporcle.com/games/grays1705/top25hitting
The triples list is killing me right now. I’ve got 40/100, but i’ve still got half my time left.
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Triples is a killer, no way anyone can even get 15 of them
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by Phil Gurnee on Nov 18, 2011 11:42 AM PST up reply actions
Rule 5 adds
Reminder that the deadline is tonight. I remember last year waiting anxiously all night, only to find we added some old reliever and Vector. :)
Depends on how the defense adjusts and whether it staves off decline.
All valuation projections are extremely rough.
by Chad Moriyama on Nov 22, 2011 8:38 PM PST up reply actions
His baseline or the money?
Because if anything, it looks as if I undershot the dollars per WAR.
by Chad Moriyama on Nov 22, 2011 8:38 PM PST up reply actions
The new prospect discussion post is up, along with the voting post, but this is Kemp’s day so conintue having that discussion here.
Eric, feel free to move this one back up to the top as well unless you have another kemp post coming
by Brandon Lennox on Nov 18, 2011 11:32 AM PST reply actions
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