Comments for Dodger https://ladodgerchronicles.com Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 Comment on We Start Again by Badger https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21919 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:09:18 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21919 In reply to Singing the Blue.

I could, but I won’t here. I’ll just put it this way, I feel a storm coming.

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Comment on We Start Again by Bumsrap https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21918 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:55:25 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21918 In reply to Oldbear48.

I think moving Betts back and forth between short and second will degrade his defense at both positions.

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Comment on We Start Again by Make mine Blue https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21917 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:37:19 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21917 In reply to Jeff Dominique.

So what you are trying to say is Muncy is bad, no matter the effort, the desire, the amount of ground balls he takes, no matter what he wants, no matter how badly some people want to give him a chance and no matter how much the fans desire him to be a decent 3B, it ain’t going to get any better. Thank you for all your research Jeff, but I didn’t even need those stats, all I needed was my eyes to determine, Muncy Bad.

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Comment on We Start Again by Bobby https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21916 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:25:45 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21916 In reply to Jeff Dominique.

That’s beyond realistic and scares the hell out of me.

Oh well, at least we’ll have 6 months of fun before we get to the October drama again!

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Comment on We Start Again by Oldbear48 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21915 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:06:26 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21915 In reply to Bumsrap.

Nope, at SS with Mookie moving to second. No mention of him playing third at all.

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Comment on We Start Again by Jeff Dominique https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21914 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:58:24 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21914 Dodgers 26 man roster is exactly as Roster Resource indicated above. Grove and Hurt are in for Graterol and Treinen.

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Comment on We Start Again by Jeff Dominique https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21913 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:45:26 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21913 In reply to Oldbear48.

There were 15 qualified 3B for Fangraphs defense.

Max was 12th in DRS (Defensive runs saved)
Max was 13th in range runs above average
Max was last in errors runs above average
Max was last in UZR

When using 500 innings played, there were 27 3B. Max was still last in errors runs above average and UZR.

I am sorry, but that qualifies as bad.

We have no idea how Mookie is going to adjust to SS. So far, it has not been good. Limited range and the ball is not sticking in the glove. How does that play when you need a DP. Gets the lead runner, so no error, but the inning remains alive.

In the span of a 162 game regular season schedule, defense in minimized. But in the playoffs, it can be maximized.

A realistic scenario – Dodgers and Dbacks 2-2 in NLDS. The Dodgers had two blow out wins with 7 HRs, but were 0-15 WRISP in their 2 losses. Game 5 – 1-1 tie going into the 9th inning. With 2 outs, Corbin Carroll gets on base on an error by Muncy, Betts, Lux…take your pick. Carroll steals 2nd and scores on a broken bat flair single by Ketel Marte on a pitch that Phillips jams him while batting LH.

Bottom of 9. LHRP comes in. Muncy trying for a HR, strikes out swinging on a pitch in the dirt. Teoscar Hernández hits a hard ground ball up the middle, but Perdomo makes a great play and throws him out. CT3 comes out to bat for Outman and strikes out on three wild a** swings. Dbacks to Atlanta for NLCS. Please do not say that this is not a realistic scenario, and that it is only bad luck that the Dodgers lose in the NLDS. The Dodgers have two consecutive bad NLDS losses because they played bad.

Defense – it is not just the errors, but the inability to make a game saving play that all of the Dback infielders can do. Forget the great plays, we are hoping that the Dodgers infielders can make the routine plays. That is why DRS and UZR are important defensive metrics.

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Comment on We Start Again by Singing the Blue https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21912 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:42:54 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21912 In reply to Badger.

Can you summarize it? I don’t get The Times.

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Comment on We Start Again by Badger https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21911 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:04:00 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21911 In reply to Singing the Blue.

Did you read the front page article of the LA Times about where the Ohtani investigation might be going?

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Comment on We Start Again by Bumsrap https://ladodgerchronicles.com/we-start-again/#comment-21910 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:28:58 +0000 https://ladodgerchronicles.com/?p=6561#comment-21910 In reply to Bluto.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+anxious+generation+by+jonathan+haidt&crid=ZFIXJ3HZE5L8&sprefix=The+Anxious+Generation%2Caps%2C290&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_22

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