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Friday, March 03, 2006 |
Pickoff Moves
Dodgers Lose Downing, Gain Three In The Broadcast Booth
The Dodgers have lost Al Downing while picking up three new guys on radio broadcasts, a fourth if you consider A. Martinez. The three are Jerry Reuss, Steve Yeager, and Tom Goodwin; the first two are a pair of my personal favorites as a kid.During Spring Training, the Dodgers' flagship radio station, KFWB 980 will air 13 games live, while nine others will be heard with the Dodger broadcast team on dodgers.com and the Dodger radio network. An additional five games will be carried on dodgers.com and mlb.com through the opposing team's radio broadcast, giving the Dodgers a total of 27 broadcasts in the 33-game spring schedule.This year the team will celebrate the 1981 World Series title, and so they'll be giving out bobbleheads of Fernando Valenzuela, Ron Cey, and Steve Garvey.
Drew Wants To Be Healthy?
Sure, why not, but can it ever happen?Update: Brilliant crack from the BTF thread:
AP: Drew content to keep getting hurt"Hey, who wouldn't jump at the chance to make nine million dollars a year and only have to go into work half the time?" noted the Dodgers' right fielder. "And for me there's really no downside," Drew continued, "because I've been hurt so many times that I have an inhuman pain tolerance," proceeding to demonstrate this fact by jamming his testicles into a hive full of angry bees.
Nick Green's Big Spring Training Adventure
Every year we get about a half dozen of these kind of local-kid-goes-to-spring-training stories, and well, here's another about Angels prospect Nick Green. GreenChristina Kahrl: Thppt To Bulger
Christina Kahrl doesn't like the Callaspo-for-Bulger deal, which seems to be the broad concensus.... [It's] nice of the Angels to thoughtfully dip into that [middle infield] depth and try to help the big league club right now, while freeing up their lesser infield prospects to their individual pursuits of happiness and profitable employment in other organizations. That's certainly what they did by swapping Alexi Casilla to the Twins for lefty relief workhorse J.C. Romero, after all. The problem is that, like Romero, I'm not so sure they added something of significant value. Romero's failures last season, particularly with men on base, hardly bode well for his bid to be the Angels' first quality bullpen lefty since... Scott Schoeneweis? I guess that's slightly less humiliating than "Mike Holtz," I guess. But in Bulger, all they've gotten is a righty reliever with a fastball and options, and in a pen that might already not have room for both Esteban Yan and Kevin Gregg, and which will also have organizational soldier (with extra surgery stripes) Greg Jones knocking around in camp. There's little about Bulger to make you think that he's more worthwhile than any of that lot, let alone someone you trade somebody off of your 40-man roster for.I suppose I should add that Stephen Smith, whose "defunct" FutureAngels website has collected three front-page "site updates" in the last week, came out in the minority position of actually liking the trade (as he did in the Minor League Ball diary). He gives further justification: Callaspo's splits away from the big thumpers' parks of Salt Lake, Colorado Springs, Tucson, Las Vegas, and Albuquerque were just a pathetic .227/.271/.303 (in 66 AB). So maybe the Angels got full value for him...
Comments:
In BA's Prospect Book for 2006, they ranked Green the Angels' 30th-best prospect, if I recall.
# posted by 
: 3/03/2006 08:48:00 AM
: 3/03/2006 08:48:00 AM
Hard to tell how Bulger will turn out. Heck, just one year ago, alot of observers thought Derrick Turnbow was hard-throwing bust who would never make it in the majors.
# posted by : 3/03/2006 08:53:00 AM
: 3/03/2006 08:53:00 AM
Dang, I like Al Downing. And is that the same A. Martinez who used to star in the soap "Santa Barbara"?
I really do not think Bulger is planned to make an impact for 2006.
2006 pen includes Frankie/Shields/Romero/Donnelly/Yan/Gregg
Yet Romero & Yan are FA after this year. Donnelly could absolutely be done, thus getting dropped after this season. 2007 pen will need some help. If Bulger adds an offspeed pitch to the sinker, slider, and fastball, he could be real impressive.
A good solid trade for Stoneman
2006 pen includes Frankie/Shields/Romero/Donnelly/Yan/Gregg
Yet Romero & Yan are FA after this year. Donnelly could absolutely be done, thus getting dropped after this season. 2007 pen will need some help. If Bulger adds an offspeed pitch to the sinker, slider, and fastball, he could be real impressive.
A good solid trade for Stoneman
# posted by : 3/03/2006 11:34:00 AM
: 3/03/2006 11:34:00 AMNewer› ‹Older
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