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    Really sucks. Watching him blow batters away with that heat is poetry in motion. Hoping it's a quick healing oblique, though I'm preparing myself for not expecting him back this year.
     
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    impossible to replace him
    but roki to the pen makes even more sense now
    and i may be in the minority (no racist), but i don’t trust glasnow starting or out of the pen
     
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    Notes on Arizona Fall League Dodger prospects (and one former prospect).

    Eduardo Quintero, OF, Los Angeles Dodgers (No. 15)
    The Dodgers’ No. 1 prospect took off after a slow start to the season, ending the year with a .308/.443/.499 line and 44 steals as a 20-year-old who spent all but one game in High A. He has huge upside, with the potential for plus hit, power, run and defense in center field, and has consistently shown strong plate discipline as a pro, with exactly 88 walks in each of the last two years. (I was hoping it was 88 walks off 44 pitchers, but that seems unlikely.)

    Zyhir Hope, OF, Detroit Tigers (No. 26)
    Hope might be the most famous prospect in the Fall League this year thanks to his inclusion in the Tarik Skubal trade at the deadline. He has elite bat speed and has shown some feel for the strike zone, with the potential for solid defense in an outfield corner. I just saw Hope again during the last week of the Double-A regular season and was concerned by the extra weight he’s added.

    Charles Davalan, OF, Los Angeles Dodgers (No. 63)
    Davalan was the No. 41 pick in 2025 out of Arkansas, and his first full season made it clear he should have gone higher in the draft. He hit .292/.402/.535 in High A and walked more than he struck out while showing he can probably stick in center field. I wonder if this assignment is about trying to get him to face some better arms, since he belonged in Double A but was blocked there most of the season by Hope, Mike Sirota and Josue De Paula.

    Sam Horn, RHP, Los Angeles Dodgers
    Horn was a quarterback/pitcher at the University of Missouri and then signed with the Dodgers as a 17th-round pick in 2025 with the condition that he be allowed to play football that fall … only to break his leg on the first snap of the first game of the Tigers’ season. He has yet to make his pro debut and threw only 15 innings in college, with premium stuff and some starter characteristics.

    Chase Harlan, 3B, Los Angeles Dodgers
    Harlan slugged .509 between Low A and High A this year in 86 games, and has a history of posting elite exit velocities, although he ended the year on the injured list.
     
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    Sho hit off a tee yesterday and Pages hit off the machine. Baby steps. I don't expect much from Pages coming back. Wrist/hand injuries are tough to come back from.

    Not sure what to expect from Sho. Lack of communication from him during this entire process is troubling.
     
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    i have nothing to base this on, but i feel like he’s pouting
     
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    Unfortunately for the Dodgers, they're going to come up short in their bid to surpass the NL record for times grounded into a double play. The '73 Gnats record of 169 remains safe for another year.
     
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    Yeah, I'd love to see him get a legit shot with another team. It's a shame the Dodgers weren't able to trade him before the deadline for a reliever, or perhaps a low-level prospect. But I'm glad to see he's no longer stuck in an organization that had no place for him and I would imagine he is too.
     
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    That story chronicles his career with the Dodgers pretty well.
     
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    @Wittman7 · 5h
    Seems the Braves have given up on the 2 seed. Sale was supposed to start tomorrow and is now scheduled to pitch next Wednesday.    ​

    @trburns826 · 33m
    Makes sense. Dodgers still have 6 with the Giants. Even if LA went 4-5 to close the season, Atlanta would have to go 8-1. Might as well rest Sale since he’s going to have to be a horse given Atlanta’s starting pitching issues.    ​


    just twitter, er, X ppl spouting so fwiw
    but something to consider

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    Umpire Laz Diaz had 5 calls overturned in the 10th inning of the Angels Twins game (VIDEO). No umpire had ever had more than 3 calls overturned in a game's extra innings. This was just the 3rd time that 5 calls were overturned in a single inning.





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    CB Bucknor concurs
     
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    The saga of Pete Reiser..........

    Forgotten Dodger: Pete Reiser
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    Pete Reiser in 1941.
    (Associated Press)
    Pete Reiser never met an outfield fence he didn’t like crashing into and it may have cost him a Hall of Fame career.

    Harold Patrick Reiser was born on March 17, 1919, in St. Louis. He loved westerns and as a child often walked around wearing a cowboy hat and carrying toy guns, so people started calling him Pistol Pete, which stuck with him throughout his baseball career.

    After playing in 58 games with the Dodgers in 1940, Reiser came into his own in 1941 when he hit a league-leading .343 to go with 117 runs, 39 doubles, 17 triples, 14 homers and 76 RBIs. He also played great defense in center. That got him second place in NL MVP voting behind teammate Dolph Camilli (Reiser should have won). Reiser led the league in nine categories.

    He followed that by hitting .310 with 33 doubles and 10 homers in 1942, leading the league with 20 steals and making his second straight All-Star team. However, on July 18 of that year, he crashed full speed into the center-field fence, which was made of concrete, while chasing a fly ball. He ended up with a separated shoulder and fractured skull. In those days though, you didn’t let little things like a fractured skull slow you down. He returned to the lineup a week later, but he wasn’t the same. He hit .244 the rest of the season.

    He then enlisted in the Army and spent three years there. In 1944, after a long march in below-zero weather, Reiser was diagnosed with pneumonia. The Army decided to put him in Fort Riley, Kan., so he could play for the camp’s baseball team. With Reiser on the team, they were virtually unbeatable and Reiser was given his own room and excused from all other duties.

    Reiser returned to the majors in 1946 and broke his leg while stealing second. He crashed into the fence in St. Louis and missed some time. But he still led the league with 34 steals, though his batting average dropped to .277.

    In 1947, he was chasing another fly ball when he crashed into the wall face first. This caused another fractured skull. He was given the Last Rites by a priest in the hospital before making a miraculous recovery. He ended up playing 110 games that season.

    He was a bench player the following season, as he had put on a little weight and had been slowed tremendously by his numerous injuries. The Dodgers traded him to the Boston Braves after the season for Nanny Fernandez and Mike McCormick.

    By unofficial count, Reiser’s injuries over the years included four fracture skulls, multiple dislocated shoulders, two broken ankles, torn ligaments in both knees and and two beanings. He was carried off the field on a stretcher eleven times—five times when he was unconscious.

    He retired after the 1952 season and came back to the Dodger organization as a roving minor-league hitting instructor. He joined Walter Alston’s coaching staff in L.A. in 1960 and helped tutor Maury Wills on how to steal bases. In an interview with this newsletter a few years ago, Wills made sure to give praise to Reiser as being a big part of his 104-steal season.

    Reiser had a heart attack in 1965, went on to coach for other teams. He smoked a pack of cigarettes a day throughout his adult life and died of emphysema in Palm Springs in 1981. He was only 62.

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    man what a rough life. these are the kind of stories that keep tucker looking over his shoulder! a healthy fear of walls is a good thing.
     
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    Rough life indeed but something tells me he wouldn't have traded it for anything.

    Aren't all the walls padded today? The thing that struck me most was that he ran into a concrete wall. That's nuts, and I can understand the skull fractures and knocking himself unconscious. But when was the last time an outfielder knocked himself out in current times, and there've been a lot of wall run-ins? I don't see the same risk, so I wouldn't mind if Tucker were a little less conservative chasing those flies.
     
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    This is in response to the discussion in the current game thread about past championship teams - just posting here to get it back on topic. @irish mentioned the importance of the Scioscia HR that tied game 4 of the 1988 NLCS.

    Baseball Reference is both a great and dangerous tool for any baseball fanatic. One could (and I often have) literally spend hours looking up stuff, and it's easy to go down that rabbit hole.

    Earlier today, I started researching different World Series. Each WS has its own page, and I found a really cool graphic at the bottom of those pages that frankly I never really paid enough attention to before. It's a "Series Win Probability Chart," and it goes through a timeline of each series and charts every single play, showing the impact of the play on the series win probability for each team. Also, beneath that there's a table highlighting the top 10 plays of the series.

    I ended up reviewing these two items for every WS from 1981 to the present. It triggered a lot of memories of plays that were difference makers, and when they say a picture says a thousand words, in this case a chart does as well. At a quick glance you can tell if a series was boring - 4-0 with one team having control all the way through, or very exciting with momentum constantly shifting between both teams. Obviously, last year's series vs the Jays was one for the ages. The "Will Klein" innings in game 3 resemble the teeth of a jigsaw, each out slightly oscillating momentum back and forth. Of course, the Freddie HR in the 18th was huge and resulted in a 13% increase in the Dodgers chance of winning the series, which is really high for a play that only made the series 2-2. (It's difficult for early series plays to swing momentum as much. The Gibson game 1 HR, for example, moved the needle by 27% which actually is very significant, but if that was later in the series it would have been a higher number.) So getting back to the Toronto series, it's cool to see the impact of other big plays. The Kike catch and doubling off the runner at second to end game 6 swung Toronto's series win probability from 68% to 53%. And then we have game 7 which, being do-or-die, is gong to have much bigger swings. Before Miggy hit his monumental HR, TOR had a 92% probability to take the series (most of the Dodgers' 8% likely due to Ohtani being on deck)... after he hit it, it was 59%. Then Shohei flies out and it goes up to 63%. From there, almost every play resulted in a noteworthy swing. The Pages catch over Kike swung Toronto's odds from 85% to 68%. The Miggy to Smith forceout resulted in a 16% swing. The Smith HR increased the Dodgers chances by 42%. The Vlad double swung it back 26%. And then the biggest swing of all - the Kirk DP. Before that AB, Toronto had a 49% chance to win the series. A 49% chance, lost in one swing!

    Anyhow, this is the kind of stuff that I could literally spend hours or even days on.

    Back to irish's post. You can also view these charts for championship series (and basically any game during the season). Scioscia's HR swung the series by 7%. That number probably doesn't do it justice, but it's likely lower than expected because it was just game four and it just tied the score, didn't win the game. Still, as we know clearly a big one as the Mets had dominated the Dodgers during the regular season, and had the Dodgers lost that game, they'd have been down 3-1.

    Here's the link: https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1988_NLCS.shtml
     
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    should have been more clear on my facetiousness. tuckeris a wuss.
     
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