DODGERS NEWS/RUMORS thread

Kluber out w a forearm fracture after being hit by a line drive
apparently he didn't dodge a bullet but maybe we did since he's basically been sucking this year

 

It was a dumb fucking signing to begin with. He should have gotten 3 years max with his injury history and with what we already had. If someone wanted to beat it, fucking let them. I'm hardly ever critical of the FO, but this was their second consecutive absolutely putrid offseason in a row. Just threw money down the toilet at a guy who dominated us the first quarter of the season and then he was terrible/mediocre, much like the rest of his career and a guy that had a great WS against us when we had no business being in the WS in the first place. We could have gotten one of the best relievers in the games history for less than what it cost us to get Kelly and Pollock, so that really pisses me off.

 

I will add that the Reds trade seems to have worked out fairly well. Everyone in that deal has been terrible to awful and two of them are hurt for a long while. I think the FO banked on Puig pressing so that he could get the big contract. Good call on that one.

 

We need another RH bat

 

Agree, except the Puig instead of Pollock is at bare minimum, a wash. And a lot less expensive. I prefer Puig personally, given Polly's over rated offense and his defense doesn't come anywhere near Puig's, with the naked eye anyway.
His leather sucks, and is a liability in CF, imo, on most anything he's got to go back on.
His injury history is a screaming red flag, but not to our " clever" FO. Again. Love those injured guys.
So, the others in the trade not withstanding, they could have just left Puig out there and platooned him with whoever, and saved 55 M, surgery, and the flaccid weight of a 200 lb. albatross around their jerkoff necks, possibly four 4 loooong years.
However, I do recognize that from the Reds point of view, no Puig- no deal, I would think.

 

Chris Taylor’s early season struggles can be traced to poor batted ball numbers
http://dodgersdigest.com/2019/05/03...es-can-be-traced-to-poor-batted-ball-numbers/

So Chris Taylor's struggles are because he can't hit? What a revelation, Dustin. Pretentious douche.

 

Agreed, what an idiot. The only one struggling worse than Taylor is Roberts. How hard is it to see the guy is toast? But instead of sending him down where he could possibly get some help, just keep throwing him out there and destroying what little confidence he has left. Brilliant.

 

I don't think Lux is an option at this point, as he is mostly playing shortstop...and pretty poorly from what I've heard. Although I'd love to see him up here.

 

It has been clearly obvious how the FUCKTARDs M.O. is to run their latest "Brilliant" trade and signing choices out there to fail past their sell by dates much more than the older ones or the ones who they inherited from Ned. Hubris.

 

I will say this...
Their brilliant trades have actually been mostly, well, brilliant.

Kemp for Grandal freed up a spot in CF for a young, emerging Pederson and solved our catching problem (yes, Grandal was a streaky bkitch, but he was netting us 2-4 wins per year).
Dumping Olivera (and his money) in exchange for Alex Wood and Jose Peraza was a great deal. They let each go at the appropriate time, even getting interesting pieces in return.
Failed prospect Zach Lee for Taylor, who accumulated an 8 WAR in 2017-2018.
Dee Gordon turned into Kike Hernandez, a year of Howie Kendrick, and Austin Barnes.
They acquired Manny Machado and Yu Darvish for scraps. Neither player was great, but that's on them.

Ultimately, the players (especially Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen) failed this organization. We should be sitting on at least 1 WS right now.

I think you do have a point that the F.O. has a tendency to stick with their guys past their expiration date and actually inherited most of our best players from the previous regime.

My biggest problem with this F.O. is their lukewarm approach to free agency. They spend tons of money on mediocrity.

 

Appealing to the ultra intellectual I guess...
But to the rest of the IQ nabobs, this is like saying she has 11 children by five different men because she allows many varied penises to ejaculate in her vagina.
Duh.
Yeah...