2016 Regular Season Thread

[Neddy]

Thanks for giving JP Howell a player's option Ned.

Cannot wait until the filth that he tracked into Dodger blue is gone.

still on payroll from Ned's signings.
Carl Crawford --- 21 million per for the next 2 more years.
JP's option ----- less than 7 and its over this year
Erisbel Arruebarrena ---- 13 milion more for the next 3 years to play for the AAA team.
Matt Kemp ---- 14 more million owed for the next 4 years
Andre Ethier --- 18 million this year, 17.5 next year, and 2.5 buyout after that.
Alex Guerrero --- 10 million for the next 2 years.


at least our payments to

Jason Schmitt
Juan Pierre
Andruw Jones
Manny Ramirez
Joe Garland
Rafael Furcal
Hiroki Kuroda
Casey Blake
Ted Lilly

for not playing for us is over...

where are you Carlos Santana....

LMAO Carlos Santana.

Can you believe that some Friedman haters are using players like Kershaw to say Ned did a good job???
Like he had anything to do with scouting him and making the tough decision to pick him over Lincecum.

Logan White was the man back then. I miss him.

Kim Ng negotiated like a Mofo. I miss her.

wish he had the analytics of Paul DePodesta through those years. I miss him.

but hell, we have Andrew/Farhan/Josh/Alex and I am not missing them all that much.

[Neddy]

we are back in business.

**** on, one out, Utley and Seager coming up.

[Neddy]

Orel coming up with excuses lol

[Neddy]

it's a fastball count... sit on it or let go otherwise.

[Neddy]

hey I was wrong on that pitch like Orel was a few pitches ago. lol

[Neddy]

eventually got the fastball and just came up short.

[Neddy]

oh man looks like it's gonna come down to the last 3 innings with 3 runs to catch up. crazier things has happened.

[Ranma]

No replay? They might have got him on the pick-off.


Edit: Didn't matter as Blanton got himself out of the inning. On to the 9th inning for our last chance to take the lead in the NL West this young season.

[Neddy]

No replay? They might have got him on the pick-off.

glad that didn't cause any more bleeding.

now do we all have our rally hats on?

[Neddy]

oh man the first three pitches were all hittable. now surely here comes a ball

[Neddy]

breaking ball coming...

[Neddy]

damn. not only i missed the pitch but Turner made an out....

[Neddy]

god Adrian should have aimed for that first pitch. with 3 runs and one out, you know the first pitch is gonna be a fastball for a strike

[Neddy]

2-2 and I doubt they will pitch around here

[Neddy]

.... and it is a strike for a K.

but I thought that was a ball. it was outside.

[Neddy]

oh ****.

laters dudes.

[Ranma]

We conceivably could have won all 4 games in this series to go undefeated on the season, but we just missed on getting swept by the Giants. For now, we're 1 game behind them for the division lead with a day off before our home opener. Things could be worse even if I'm disappointed in our missed opportunities.

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[Quake Griffin]

still on payroll from Ned's signings.
Carl Crawford --- 21 million per for the next 2 more years.
JP's option ----- less than 7 and its over this year
Erisbel Arruebarrena ---- 13 milion more for the next 3 years to play for the AAA team.
Matt Kemp ---- 14 more million owed for the next 4 years
Andre Ethier --- 18 million this year, 17.5 next year, and 2.5 buyout after that.
Alex Guerrero --- 10 million for the next 2 years.


at least our payments to

Jason Schmitt
Juan Pierre
Andruw Jones
Manny Ramirez
Joe Garland
Rafael Furcal
Hiroki Kuroda
Casey Blake
Ted Lilly

for not playing for us is over...

where are you Carlos Santana....

LMAO Carlos Santana.

Can you believe that some Friedman haters are using players like Kershaw to say Ned did a good job???
Like he had anything to do with scouting him and making the tough decision to pick him over Lincecum.

Logan White was the man back then. I miss him.

Kim Ng negotiated like a Mofo. I miss her.

wish he had the analytics of Paul DePodesta through those years. I miss him.

but hell, we have Andrew/Farhan/Josh/Alex and I am not missing them all that much.

Hey man, I wish Logan White would have stayed on with this current front office. His drafts were money once Guggenheim brought the money. That would have been a juggernaut front office.

I still think with this front office we're going to be good for years to come.

But for 2016, I really wish Friedman would pay Crawford, Howell, and Guerrero to take a hike.
Their benefit to our ball club does not outweigh the fact that they're taking up PAs and time in the field from younger guys. More importantly, we have a quality leader in the club house, good coaches, young players, and veterans that aren't an actual waste of space. I think it would go a long way to making our clubhouse a winning clubhouse and not just one that is so talented that it's always going to put up 90+ wins.

I mean we really have Howell coming in in spots to suck when a younger, much more live arm can come in and help us (theoretically, I know we're hurt)….he makes $6 million this year….is this real life? Kenley is making $10 million.

[Quake Griffin]

Not flinching at this series or the next one.

They have a little more continuity there with Bochy, Posey and their infield so they usually beat up on us early and we usually beat the Giants up pretty good after the all star break.

I said this last year and got laughed at on the general discussion baseball forum.
Then we went 5-2 against them in September, sweeping them in LA and taking 22 out of 4 in SF to clinch the division.

[Ranma]

While I'm certainly grateful to Logan White for his contributions to our drafts and would have preferred that he stayed on staff within the current administration, I've been convinced by arguments that he was not exactly a draft genius but more above average compared to his contemporaries with regards to his record of hits and misses even when he was not hampered by McCourt's flimsy finances.

I'm definitely thankful that Ned Colletti's influence has been minimized to irrelevance, but I definitely would have preferred that we brought back Kim Ng since, as Neddy said, she was a topnotch negotiator who was a big fan of the game. I wasn't a fan of Paul DePodesta's, but I wouldn't be opposed to him being a part of our braintrust as a subordinate and not a leader. The guy I think who was under-appreciated and deserves a position with the Dodgers is Dan Evans. He brought in Ng and secured Vladimir Guerrero's agreement to join the Dodgers before McCourt put the kibosh on it. Evans also ably rebuilt the organization from the shambles Kevin Malone's bumbling left it.