Is our Scouting Department ANY good?

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  1. 4everblue

    4everblue DSP Regular

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    would you say that Loney, Martin, JMac are?
     
    4everblue, Oct 11, 2012
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    You're comparing different years from the two. Anyways, the argument is about impact major league players. Both were impact players. Both suck tho.
     
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    Loney sucks, Russ Martin was a great player who's now a decent player, and JMac is probably an average SP.
     
    VRP, Oct 11, 2012
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    I don't know why I keep coming into this thread, it's ludicrous.
     
    BigDaddyKaine, Oct 11, 2012
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    Martin was a good player at a premium position in 07/08
     
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    as much as I dislike loney
    not really a fair comparison
    young is a career .239 hitter
    loney's career BA is .282
    loney's worst BA year (2012) he hit .249
    young's best BA year he hit .248
    with all young's HR's, his career slugging is only 18 points higher than loney
     
    irish, Oct 11, 2012
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    Idk, this is just a dumb topic. Everyone catches their breaks and other don't. The Dodgers have been notoriously known as a pitching organization since Irish and 4ev were born. ;)

    The fact that we were able to produce a hitter like Matt Kemp and bring in Andre Ethier is huge when you factor in how great our homegrown pitching has been.
     
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    Another point is we've had our share of prospects who've had huge trade value. It sucks we didn't trade some of them at their peak value.
     
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    on that I agree... its completely going in circles...
     
    4everblue, Oct 11, 2012
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    hell, even before then :blind:
     
    irish, Oct 11, 2012
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    very good point
    the list of Hu's, Thurston's, Ashley's, VanSlyke's, LaRoche's, et al is quite long
     
    irish, Oct 11, 2012
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    those would have been good to fool some teams and get value in return... none of them were real ML talent...
     
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  13. chris

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    Both Young and Loney suck. I guess Young sucks less?
     
    chris, Oct 12, 2012
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    IDK if it's that dumb....pitching wise better than average, although we wind up with retread city so often to fill it out, compliments of Ned, the position players have been , comparitvely, so-so.
    I think generally, it is over rated. Dodger hype, a la Guzman and so many others. Puig may put us up there, though.
     
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