DODGERS NEWS/RUMORS/INJURIES Thread

Awww. The one armed man is once again the Tin Man. I hope that during that TJS they also gave him a heart. One just like Tommy John's

 

Bonafacio news picking up...


FEB. 10: The Royals have requested unconditional release waivers on Bonifacio, tweets Chris Cotillo of MLB Daily Dish. Any team can now claim Bonifacio if they are willing to take on the entirety of his $3.5MM salary. Those claims will be determined according to last year's league-wide standings and are not subject to the in-season rule that would give AL teams the first shot at him (2013 league-wide standings are also used for the first month of the regular season, as opposed to league-specific priority). Should he clear waivers, he will be a free agent and can then sign with a team of his choosing.

 

Wright now, with the amount of pitchers we have under contract, I don't care.

 

Honestly what's your deal with Billingsley? LOL, I mean the guy has been a solid contributor to this team for many years.

 

He has a "deal" with half the roster. Why even bother being a fan?

 

Careful, or you'll be CBU.

(ChadBillingsly'sUncle)

 

Or EOTDU.

(EveryoneOnTheDodgers'Uncle)

 

If K-emp, the Tin Man, Fed, Dee, League and Urine are half the roster, you have some seriously fucked up math skills.

 

Weight wise with Uribe, I think they would make up roughly half the roster.

 

Oh SHIT! And with the Chinchilla's ego...........


SMH

 

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet, but get your speculation cards out...

 

Guessing it will be one of the Cubans. I would love to see it be Diaz as suddenly our MIF depth would look pretty stellar. Even better if it was Diaz and Castillo, but now I'm just getting greedy.

 

Diaz or Bonifacio I assume..

 

We really don't have the infield strength you expect from a $200 million team, and I don't think expecting Uribe and Guerrero to man third and second with Turner and Dee backing them up is the plan -- so the next move should be for an infielder.

Diaz, a Cuban SS makes sense... But he can't sign until Feb 19 I believe, so it seems too early for Stan to cryptically talk about it.

Castillo is primarily an OFer but has some 2B/3B experience. I'm not sure if he has cleared to sign yet, but the Dodgers have been linked with him.

Bonifacio should get picked up by a team very soon, so the timing fits plus he has Ned-gem qualities. I'm just not sure he's the kind of player you foreshadow to the media, it's a setup for disappointment.

I'm just going to throw it out there, but Chase Headley is likely still on the trade block. Given that we are in the same division as the Padres, trade talks could have been extremely quiet. Maybe a deal has been made and they just want to make sure he clears a physical before announcing it? The player is available, fits our team needs, and is a big enough name to warrant a fuss. Headley to 3B, then Juan and Alex can battle it out for 2B. -- maybe this is just wishful thinking.

 

Hobo Harry (the Dodgers' new mascot), Manny Ramirez, or Tracy McGrady are my other guesses.

 

I am not putting any stock in it. He could have been talking about Kemp getting back or something to that effect. I want a Cuban SS.

 

Petriello has a theory...

Kasten: Mystery Player Headed To Dodgers Camp
by Mike Petriello | Dogers Digest — February 10, 2014


Is it him? Probably not. But maybe. Or not. (Flickr)

Stan Kasten is just the best. Sometimes I think he just gets a blast out of messing with everyone. Like this from tonight, for example:

Pedro Moura ‏@PedroMoura 13h ​

Stan Kasten tells fans at Dodger Stadium town hall there will ​

be a new player joining camp soon, but doesn’t name him.​

7:20 PM - 10 Feb 2014 · Details​

While it’s certainly a ton of fun to throw out names like Ubaldo Jimenez or A.J. Burnett, let’s all agree that it’s not going to be anyone like that, and Kasten almost certainly isn’t talking about anyone who is property of another club who might be moved in a trade.

So who is out there that’s worth Kasten mentioning but isn’t already contracted to a team? There are some pretty obvious names that come to mind, because we’ve talked about them here already. There’s utility man Emilio Bonifacio, who Daniel looked at least week after he was DFA’d by Kansas City. I did the same at FanGraphs, arguing that his ability to run and play a few spots make him interesting, and today we learned that the Royals have placed him on release waivers, meaning any team can have him if they are willing to take his $3.5m salary.

Bonifacio’s a fit, yet it’s still odd. Waivers at this time of year are given in reverse order of 2013 standings — overall, not by league — so if he fell to the Dodgers, that means that every team other than Atlanta, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Boston, Detroit, and Oakland passed on him. Is it realistic to think that no team would take a chance on him for a few million bucks, not even the Yankees, who have huge holes? Even if so, that would mean that it’s progressed from “waivers” to “he’s now a Dodger” without anyone finding out, which seems questionable.

If not Bonifacio, then the obvious path is to one of the various Cubans Dustin profiled recently, with Rusney Castillo the name that has been in the news most often. That said, Castillo has not yet been cleared by American authorities to sign, so it’s not likely to be him, nor should you imagine it’s shortstop Aledmys Diaz, who isn’t allowed to sign until February 19th.

So who is left? Catcher Yenier Bello perhaps, and even though there’s been wildly varying reviews of his talent — Baseball America‘s Ben Badler referred to him as a “non-prospect” — you might have seen today’s earlier post about how threadbare the catching is in this organization. Or maybe it’s pitcher Odrisamer Despagine, or he’s completely screwing with us, or maybe most likely, someone we’ve never heard of. Remember when Yasiel Puig was signed, and the general reaction was, “great! who?”

Either way, Kasten has injected just a little bit of interest into the early days of camp. Bless him for that.

 

Harry the Hobo? is that the guy on the cover of my 1955 yearbook? And 1956?
"Da' Bums" is back?
Oh, forgot....this is the "new" Dodgers.