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Monday, February 08, 2010

Dodgers Sign Brian Giles To Minor League Deal

SRSLY?

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Sunday, February 07, 2010

The Times Amends Some Old Fences: Dan Evans Gets Overdue Credit

Not that T.J. Simers or Bill Plaschke would notice. Is it possible that sensible sportswriting has come back to the Times? I'm not holding out a lot of hope for it, but stranger things have been seen in the skies.

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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Jim Thome Signs With The Twins

Austin Knoblauch in The Fabulous Forum reports that briefly-a-Dodger Jim Thome has signed with the Minnesota Twins on a one-year, $1.5M deal.

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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Random Transactions

I expect at this point we'll see some more stuff over the transom, and if I get it, I'll update this post if it happens today.

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Steve Dilbeck Takes Over For Jon Weisman At The Times

With the fairly generically named Dodgers Blog. Angels blogging at the Times is pretty dead, it being Steve Bisheff hasn't posted anything since November, but who am I to complain... I've gone an entire week without writing lately. Sidebar mods coming presently.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

In Another Minor League Deal For The Dodgers, Jeff Weaver Re-Ups

Tim Brown tweets that the Dodgers have re-signed Jeff Weaver to a minor league deal. It's hard to imagine that this was the best he could get, but his history is spotty.

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Dodgers Sign Alfredo Amezaga To Minor League Deal

I haven't been as on top of the Dodgers' minor league deals this year as I usually am, but this one is of special interest because it's an ex-Angel: Alfredo Amezaga has signed on a minor league deal with the Dodgers, to make $650k if he makes the team, plus bonuses to $800k.

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Monday, February 01, 2010

A Lovely Parting Gift: Hudler Given Analyst Of The Year Award By SoCal Sports Broadcasters

Insert comment here about the general decline of awards.

Vin Scully also picked up the "Chick Hearn Award" from that same group. I imagine by now he has a storage unit somewhere in the Valley where he keeps most of them.

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Oops: Rangers Sale May Not Be On After All

Via David Pinto, it looks like the Rangers sale is not as complete as previously advertised. Turns out that because Tom Hicks is in both old (as a majority owner, presumably) and new ownership groups, he's using this to squeeze his creditors and force them to take a haircut. "We will be better off in bankruptcy court," one source alleges his current creditors say, and a relatively small amount of money in this transaction — about $30M from Craig Calcaterra's reckoning — may derail the whole deal.

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Dodger Thoughts Moves To ESPN/LA

The reality long after the rumor, which Jon assured me at the time was possibly overblown. Well, congratulations, for the second time in as many years, and the fifth home in eight years. How time does fly!

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Robothal: Dodgers Making A Run At Reed Johnson

Via Twitter. He's a fourth outfielder at this point in his career, made obsolete in Chicago when the Cubs signed ex-Padre Xavier Nady for $3.3M/1 year. He's still a better option than the rumored interest in Garret Anderson.

Rosenthal has a longer piece up at Fox Sports.

Update 2/1/10: The Dodgers have offered Johnson a one-year/$800,000 contract according to ESPN.

MSTI has more on why this likely spells the end of Jason Repko, and why it means Blake DeWitt is probably starting the season with AAA Albuquerque. It also means that, given Johnson's historic ability to hit lefties well, Andre Ethier will be run in a strict platoon this year.

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