MINOR LEAGUE/PROSPECTS Thread

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  1. carolinabluedodger

    carolinabluedodger DSP Legend

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    Point of order, he was no where near the batting champion when they let him go. One of the best, proven pitchers in bb...check.

    I don't think they are infallible, and definitely capable of fucking up. But who isn't? Connie Mack, Casey Stengal, and Yogi Berra all made dumbass moves, just like Tommie boy. What I do believe is that they are able to see the big picture with far more clarity than anyone on this board (and yes, I mean you too, :back2back:, as hard as that may be for you to believe) and have a vision for what the needs will be down the road before those needs become necessities.
     
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    think he meant the situation w/o mehcarthy was bad, now worse with breet on the shelf too
     
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    Well he shoulda said it then...

     
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    Scouts raving about Yadier Alvarez
    by Justin Russo | Dodgers Nation — 20 minutes ago

    When you spend $16 million on an international amateur free agent, you hope to see some kind of results early in the process that give you a glimmer of hope for the future. The Los Angeles Dodgers received that beacon of sunshine yesterday when Yadier Alvarez was on the mound on the back fields.

    The 19-year old right-hander, whom Baseball America rates as the tenth best prospect in the Dodgers organization, is 6-foot-3 and 175-pounds. He’s able to use his long, wiry frame to generate fantastic arm speed with a completely free-and-easy delivery. That delivery was on display Saturday afternoon.

    "Alvarez used a loose, whippy arm to generate lively fastballs that started out in the low-90s and eventually built to the mid-90s before touching 99 mph near his outing’s end," said Josh Norris of Baseball America. "He coupled the pitch with a low-80s slider that garnered swings and misses as well."

    A starting pitcher who can touch 99 miles per hour while throwing a very good wipeout slider? Sign me up! Now, there is some talk that the team doesn’t know what Alvarez is yet. He could be a starter, but he could also be a highly functional reliever due to his great two-pitch repertoire right now.

    Either way, the talent is there. And, in the two innings that he pitched on Saturday afternoon, Alvarez struck out two batters and only had one ball leave the infield at all. The Dodgers have worked on Alvarez’s delivery a little bit in order to help fix some command issues, and it seems to have helped.

    The sky could be the limit for the talented Cuban import, and the Dodgers certainly do hope that’s the case since they plan on him being a fixture in the future. He has the talent, the ability, and the organization to make it possible. We’ll see if he ever puts it all together, but the early results are sensational.
     
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    I remember when I gave a shit. Would write about prospects for days, go to minor league games. do the draft, write for blogs etc.

    This TW deal has really dampered me a bit. I'm still a Dodger fan, but I have to admit... not being able to see them on my tv almost every night is killing me.

    Random as hell... but just something I've been sitting on for a few years.
     
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    2014 was pretty much a lost year for me. I almost never watched any games until the post season. Using mlb.tv and unblock wasn't the same as flipping on the TV to prime ticket or kcal and watching the games. For someone as die hard as me to not even bother watching games...Idk it was weird. I'm not the same fan I was from 2003-2013. There is a 2014-present fan in me that isn't the same. Thanks TWC.
     
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    Just means you never really were a fan to begin with
     
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    I love the Dodgers. I will sob when they win the World Series and I will always feel suicidal after a postseason elimination. I pay 130 bucks a month to Time Warner solely for the Dodger channel. I go the stadium 20 times a year and love to make vacations out of going to see them on the road.

    But the absence of the Dodgers on TV in restaurants, other households, etc has changed the feel of the Dodgers a bit. They're just not accessible unless you're in front of a designated screen. It's not the same.

    That one year in 2014 when they were suddenly gone contributed to a bit of apathy from me.

    I have TWC now so it's a tad better but yeah. There is a different feel post 2013 for me
     
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    hope you're kidding
    because that's not a fair or rational statement at all
     
  10. Based God

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    yea lol was jk
    TB is one of the more passionate fans so i was jus bein ignant
     
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    Alvarez turning into a front of the rotation pitcher would make for something truly special on the horizon. Him, Urias, De Leon and Holmes are all different types of pitchers and an eventual rotation of those guys, headed by Kershaw and anchored by Maeda would make for one hell of a dominant rotation for possibly years to come.
     
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    i figured you probably were bg :headpat:
     
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    Being a perspn who was never really able to see them, except when they came east and played the Mets or Phillies and then the Yankees, they could never be an integral, daily part of my life as I wanted. TV was limited to when they were picked up, to see them play anybody else, like the Giants.
    But then the package came, and I could see them almost every game, every year. Just great. And it's still like that...but only because of where I live.
    What has happened locally for Dodger fans is a goddam tragedy, and not being corrected after all this time is purely greed and in the end, the worst American values has to offer. Smh.
    Fucking shameful.
    Maybe karma has got something to do with being a loser organization after all in the cosmic scheme of it all.
     
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    The whole thing is that you became priviledged. It was easy to get your "fix" and you did it everyday. Living on this coast it's different, like BZ said. Yeah, I could pay for a package but even then I can't stay up late and watch games that end at 1:30 a.m. I grew up reading box scores and hoping there would be an article in the Sunday paper. I listened to radio broadcasts whenever I could pick them up. When TBS became the Braves network I could watch east coast games there and on WGN as well. That was as good as it got.

    NEVER dampened my enthusiasm, loyalty, or fandom. Never will.
     
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    I feel what you're saying. It seems small, but it's shitty to go out in LA during the summer and u can't find the Dodgers on TV. When I was at school there, many times we went out to a bar or restaurant and the Dodgers were playing but weren't on TV. 3 straight division titles and you're not taking advantage of it by having entire communities watching day in and day out. I mean, for us we found ways and what not but during my small time in LA I really wanted a community Dodger feeling and didn't get it as much as I'd liked, if that makes sense
     
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    It's a bit different when your entire life you can watch the Dodgers on TV and then suddenly you can't.

    Still a Dodger fan until the day I die, just not involved as I used to be, and Codge you remember that level when I was on ESPN.
     
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    Yeah, sometimes making it to the end when it's 1:30am here is tough for this old guy. And I don't even work.When they took the Braves out of the west, the Dodger viewing dropped dramatically. So the package was the way.
    It is still a diabolically greedy, low class situation...the fact that LA fans in LA can't see them, is hard to fathom.
     
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  18. CapnTreee

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    wrong thread or not... ...:this:
     
  19. CapnTreee

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    ... so who is this Jacob Scavuzzo kid??

    Been playing since he's 18... sucked at Great Lakes but looked good in 2015... 6' 4" but only 185#??

    goes 3 for 7 but hasn't gotten more Spring AB's for whaaaaat reason?
     
  20. CapnTreee

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    And Corey Seager only got 13 Spring AB's because of why?

    ??
     
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