6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: Pickoff Moves

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Friday, June 04, 2004

Pickoff Moves

Lee At The End Of The Road?

By way of following up on my earlier post about Korean "slugger" Seung Yeop Lee, I discovered he had been sent down to the Chiba Lotte Marines' minors back on May 10th. Hitting .136 over 22 at bats with the club slumping, his demotion is one step removed from elimination from the Japanese pro leagues: unlike in the U.S., players may be dismissed at any time for lack of production. His website, www.seungyeoplee.com, no longer responds to requests.

To my knowledge, nobody covers the Japanese minors in English, so for all I know, he's done.

Update: Thanks to reader Bob Timmermann and japanesebaseball.com, which I have been meaning to but keep forgetting to add to my links on the right, for coming up with Lee's current status. He's been reinstated to the big club. Former Mets and current Lotte manager Bobby Valentine says there's nothing wrong with his slugger's approach, just that he lacks confidence at the 1-gun (big) club. So the story remains unfinished.

One Good Spring Does Not A Career Make

Similarly, Scott McClain, who we saw in action as a Cubs NRI in Spring Training, is having a deathly time of it over in Japan for the Seibu Lions, with a .204/.304/.347 line in 49 at bats. Another casualty; Dusty knew best, I suppose.

Pedro's Feeling Just Swell

Really, there's nothing wrong... I can pitch... at least, that must have been what he told people when his wrist was swelling up against the Angels this week. Good timing for us, anyway.

Dodgers 7, Snakes 3

Ishii wobbled his way through five, walking six and striking out only two on a greatly enfeebled Arizona lineup. Again, one I didn't watch, but Ishii's working on getting his way out of the majors at this rate. His second halfs are just atrocious, and the craptacularity is creeping ever earlier in the season. Good news: Werth in his return engagement went 2-4 with a homer, and 2-5 and a homer for Paulie. A nice night for the Blue offensively.

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