Nice show, guys! Considering how flat the team has been for much of the season and how much criticism that has generated, it's crazy that the Dodgers have the best record in baseball. I love the thought of home-field advantage in the WS...
The Achilles heel for the Dodgers for a few years now has been how the offense wilts against good starting pitching. It is very encouraging therefore to see how well they did against the Mariners starters. This lineup is really clicking and can do even more when some more bats wake up. This is the stuff that wins playoff games!
The secret was to be more aggressive. Don't take sp many pitches. The opposition usually swang at every pitch the Dodger hurlers threw,and wound up with big early leads.
Eric Gagne made an appearance in the booth not long ago, and he honestly admitted that he was terrible as a starter, in fact in 2000-01 he had 2 full seasons of a 5 ish ERA. He moved to the pen and became a legendary closer. This made me think of what we may be able to do with Bobby Miller once he gets his command under control, and I even started thinking of this last year when he was pitching his best. An inning or two of his letting it all hang out and getting back to 100 velocity might just be what the doctor ordered, although he’s simply not right this year, but perhaps we can get something out of him that way next year, not Gagne good mind you but perhaps a good bullpen piece, a poor man’s Kopech perhaps.
It is sad to see Jay Hey go, but the writing was on the wall and it was nice to see one more celebration with his homer the other night. My thoughts were that this will probably be the last time we see this and I think that this was not lost on the team. All the best, Jay.
Buehler gives a lot of insightful answers you say Blake, like I suck and I know I suck, not everyone shares this insight as it turns out, the Dodgers need to understand this at the same level Walker does, with the right amount of honesty. If they gave out an award to players for honesty Buehler would win it easily.
The idea of forcing pitchers to pitch 6 innings is the most bird brained idea of all time in baseball, an insult to the birds even. There is so much wrong with this and especially the fact that this will increase, not decrease, injuries to starters which is already an epidemic.
Knack isn’t an option when things go wrong Scott, he’s shown us that he deserves to be in there in the rotation and is on the farm simply because of roster considerations. Miller and Buehler are broken right now, Knack is not and currently is in our top 3 along with Flaherty and Stone. He’s more reliable right now than Kersh. He’s very much ib the conversation and deserves to be.
Edman did do well at the plate at one time, in his rookie year 5 years ago that is, and the next year the league figured out how to get him out and still do. His glove kept hi in the lineup though, think Miggy Ro last year, right around that area on average since, and that’s not a bad thing really but he’s not that good with the bat, period, and coming off an injury just makes this hole likely to be bigger. He and KK are both backup guys, we have 2 backup center fielders and I’m fine with platooning them, but Tommy is not of the caliber to be a starter and certainly not on a team that wants to win a championship. I actually feel good about this platoon and two guys who can really play the field is really worth something. So I’m not just out to trash the guy,, but we do need to use him the right way and currently we are not. This is on you, Doc, who has a penchant of watching games from years ago and forgets that a lot of time has passed.
Dave Roberts pattern of explaining injuries. 1. Put a little ice on it he’ll be fine tomorrow, 2. We’re going to put him on the 10 day IL to be safe but he’s fine, 3. He’s on the 60 day IL now but we’ll be hopeful he’ll be back later in the season. 4, He needs surgery and will be out for a year or more, So this is like the boy who cried wolf, he’ll be back in 10 days you say Doc, sure, sure.
If you realized that we’d need to add Honeywell back on the 40 man to bring him back you’re right, and the right choice here would be to but Buehler back on the IL, I’m sure his ass is still pretty sore from getting hit with that line drive, and he’s been a big pain in the ass for the team as well. The league needs to expand the rosters to not overly burden teams with this foolishness, there’s enough injuries without needing fake ones to manage the roster. We should go from 40 to 45 and also add 2 more pitcher slots and 1 more position player, an extra starter and an extra reliever in partial is sorely needed, no pun intended (or maybe it was).
I’m not sure Glasnow comes back as a starter for the playoffs and if he does return he may be limited to the pen. With Yamamoto, he’s more likely to come back as a starter, given where he is versus Glasnow. Right now, the pecking order is Stone and Flaherty as the top 2 guys, Kershaw isn’t really in that conversation at this point, and Yamamoto will have to earn his way back into the top 3. The 4 spot will have Kershaw, Buehler, and Miller battling it out and Kershaw would be the clear favorite but there’s over a month to go, Then we’d hopefully have Glasnow coming out of the pen and that actually sounds pretty exciting, He won’t be built up to start though abd we’re lucky we get him back at all at this point.
Did someone say Max doesn’t go on cold streaks like Tommy Edman? He is at best a platoon player at this point and has a juicy .250 OPS against righties so far. Yeah it’s only been 15 AB but this is not what we want, I don’t care how good of a defensive player he is. The jury is still out but so far from the left side he’s as automatic an out as anyone in the majors, CT early in the season kind of bad. If CT regresses to that point again it would be a tough choice between he and Edman. What strikes me is the continual confidence that people on this channel have in Edmon, he’s an everyday player for instance, I would have kept Jay over him but it would probably be too embarrassing for the club to trade for a guy and then DFA him this soon. Until he proves he can hit righties his acquisition will remain regrettable.
The Dodgers bats have to stay alive. They have to find away to create a baserunner. There poor pitching staff what do you do? Bring up the new kids! Let them shine, or crash to be better next year
Bobby Miller taking the mound tomorrow again, yikes. If he was pitching against a minor league team I’d still be pretty confident he is going to bomb. Wait a minute, he’s bombed consistently against minor league lineups as well. I don’t know if he’ll ever get back to the glory days of his debut but I’m not holding my breath. He needs to get off the roster ASAP though. Blame the 40 man roster for this. Once the month ends Knack will be back in the mix, he had a good game tonight for OKC, 5 IP, 1 ER, Honeywell pitched 2 scoreless as well, I want to see both of these two back up Sep 1 and Miller back down where he belongs. As for the position player we bring up, Pages is the obvious choice, he was starting to get back in the groove and was sent down because we could, we can and should bring him back up.
I like Nomar as a commentator overall but he needs to leave his stupid armchair managing aspirations at home. I can excuse him a bit for his promoting the popular delusion that teams need a set closer, even though it should be clear to anyone using their head that anytime you bring in a guy based on a set rule versus deciding based upon the situation it is a mistake by definition. The babble about how more pitchers need to go over 100 innings really got me though and there’s no excuse for that. Sure, this rests the pen but Fido you think we should also measure the effect on the starters? So he says the most pitches anyone has thrown this year is 110 by Jack, did you notice what happened in his next start? He then says that Glasnow and Yamamoto lead the way with 4 100+ outings each, did he notice that both are on the IL now and Yamamoto has yet to come back from his last long outing? How about Stone taking a month to recover from his CG? Leave these decisions to the pros Nomar, I don’t want to ever see anyone go over 100 pitches in this environment actually and thank heaven Doc tries to take care of his starters rather than hanging them out to dry like Nomar is salivating over.
@6:48 I still can’t help but get sore whenever anyone talks down on Walker, it’s been ever so slightly improving for him, and considering how much he’s done for this team, I feel like we owe it to him to not give up until it’s COMPLETELY, ABSOLUTELY, AND TOTALLY HOPELESS.
I was seriously questioning the idea of adding Edman and if anything I’m questioning this even more now that he’s had a little chance to show us what he’s got, I don’t know what people were expecting but when you take a below average hitter and he sits out for most of the year and is coming back from an injury, do you think he’ll be able to pull his weight? Heyward, with his poor season at the plate, looks like a slugger compared to Tommy, and yeah Tommy is a better defender and can play short but Jay is still a very good outfielder. The Dodgers seem to be deluded with Edman’s value though which is what tilted the scales. Hearing all the talk about what a great addition he was shares that delusion, at least until he shows us otherwise. I’m hoping hard he does but this will for me come as a surprise, even to the point of wishing Outie was back on the team, whose pitiful ordeal at the plate is still better than anything Tommy has shown us thus far.
I would’ve DFA’d Kiké rather than Heyward. Why do we need 4 utility players on the roster? If it was up to me I would’ve bounced Taylor with his payed contract, but that’s just me. Heyward gave the Dodgers huge hits this year and especially that 3 run BLAST that was heard around the world. Maybe that blast was going to be the 2023 Heyward. Heyward and Rosario over KK and Kiké all day
I don’t know of any starters, even the worst ones, that don’t shoot to pitch 6 innings now, and if people think that these guys can get by with pitching with less effort when they are getting racked around trying their best is a clear symptom of brain damage. I’m open to new ideas in improving the game but not the communist dictatorship ideas, ones that are not only bad in principle but make things worse.
Glasnow Flaherty Yamamoto Stone/Kershaw gonna hit so insane in the playoffs. Best of the field, not close
Nice show, guys! Considering how flat the team has been for much of the season and how much criticism that has generated, it's crazy that the Dodgers have the best record in baseball. I love the thought of home-field advantage in the WS...
The way 2020 went, if they win the World Series this year, it NEEDS to be in LA!
Off day vibes were way up. Keep the good times rolling
The Achilles heel for the Dodgers for a few years now has been how the offense wilts against good starting pitching. It is very encouraging therefore to see how well they did against the Mariners starters. This lineup is really clicking and can do even more when some more bats wake up. This is the stuff that wins playoff games!
Pitching?
The secret was to be more aggressive. Don't take sp many pitches. The opposition usually swang at every pitch the Dodger hurlers threw,and wound up with big early leads.
Eric Gagne made an appearance in the booth not long ago, and he honestly admitted that he was terrible as a starter, in fact in 2000-01 he had 2 full seasons of a 5 ish ERA.
He moved to the pen and became a legendary closer. This made me think of what we may be able to do with Bobby Miller once he gets his command under control, and I even started thinking of this last year when he was pitching his best.
An inning or two of his letting it all hang out and getting back to 100 velocity might just be what the doctor ordered, although he’s simply not right this year, but perhaps we can get something out of him that way next year, not Gagne good mind you but perhaps a good bullpen piece, a poor man’s Kopech perhaps.
Hell yeah Scott and Blake the A-Team
B2B two hour shows, 🐐’s
It is sad to see Jay Hey go, but the writing was on the wall and it was nice to see one more celebration with his homer the other night. My thoughts were that this will probably be the last time we see this and I think that this was not lost on the team. All the best, Jay.
Buehler gives a lot of insightful answers you say Blake, like I suck and I know I suck, not everyone shares this insight as it turns out, the Dodgers need to understand this at the same level Walker does, with the right amount of honesty. If they gave out an award to players for honesty Buehler would win it easily.
I think he can do it.
Who?
The idea of forcing pitchers to pitch 6 innings is the most bird brained idea of all time in baseball, an insult to the birds even. There is so much wrong with this and especially the fact that this will increase, not decrease, injuries to starters which is already an epidemic.
Knack isn’t an option when things go wrong Scott, he’s shown us that he deserves to be in there in the rotation and is on the farm simply because of roster considerations. Miller and Buehler are broken right now, Knack is not and currently is in our top 3 along with Flaherty and Stone. He’s more reliable right now than Kersh. He’s very much ib the conversation and deserves to be.
Edman did do well at the plate at one time, in his rookie year 5 years ago that is, and the next year the league figured out how to get him out and still do. His glove kept hi in the lineup though, think Miggy Ro last year, right around that area on average since, and that’s not a bad thing really but he’s not that good with the bat, period, and coming off an injury just makes this hole likely to be bigger.
He and KK are both backup guys, we have 2 backup center fielders and I’m fine with platooning them, but Tommy is not of the caliber to be a starter and certainly not on a team that wants to win a championship.
I actually feel good about this platoon and two guys who can really play the field is really worth something. So I’m not just out to trash the guy,, but we do need to use him the right way and currently we are not. This is on you, Doc, who has a penchant of watching games from years ago and forgets that a lot of time has passed.
Dave Roberts pattern of explaining injuries.
1. Put a little ice on it he’ll be fine tomorrow,
2. We’re going to put him on the 10 day IL to be safe but he’s fine,
3. He’s on the 60 day IL now but we’ll be hopeful he’ll be back later in the season.
4, He needs surgery and will be out for a year or more,
So this is like the boy who cried wolf, he’ll be back in 10 days you say Doc, sure, sure.
If you realized that we’d need to add Honeywell back on the 40 man to bring him back you’re right, and the right choice here would be to but Buehler back on the IL, I’m sure his ass is still pretty sore from getting hit with that line drive, and he’s been a big pain in the ass for the team as well.
The league needs to expand the rosters to not overly burden teams with this foolishness, there’s enough injuries without needing fake ones to manage the roster. We should go from 40 to 45 and also add 2 more pitcher slots and 1 more position player, an extra starter and an extra reliever in partial is sorely needed, no pun intended (or maybe it was).
Blake, DMac shouted you out on one of his recent lives. Collab soon????
I’m not sure Glasnow comes back as a starter for the playoffs and if he does return he may be limited to the pen.
With Yamamoto, he’s more likely to come back as a starter, given where he is versus Glasnow.
Right now, the pecking order is Stone and Flaherty as the top 2 guys, Kershaw isn’t really in that conversation at this point, and Yamamoto will have to earn his way back into the top 3.
The 4 spot will have Kershaw, Buehler, and Miller battling it out and Kershaw would be the clear favorite but there’s over a month to go,
Then we’d hopefully have Glasnow coming out of the pen and that actually sounds pretty exciting, He won’t be built up to start though abd we’re lucky we get him back at all at this point.
Did someone say Max doesn’t go on cold streaks like Tommy Edman? He is at best a platoon player at this point and has a juicy .250 OPS against righties so far. Yeah it’s only been 15 AB but this is not what we want, I don’t care how good of a defensive player he is.
The jury is still out but so far from the left side he’s as automatic an out as anyone in the majors, CT early in the season kind of bad. If CT regresses to that point again it would be a tough choice between he and Edman.
What strikes me is the continual confidence that people on this channel have in Edmon, he’s an everyday player for instance, I would have kept Jay over him but it would probably be too embarrassing for the club to trade for a guy and then DFA him this soon. Until he proves he can hit righties his acquisition will remain regrettable.
Blake dosnt like Star Wars?
Wait, he’s wearing an Ahsoka Tano hat. I missed the live stream, at one point do they bring up the hat?
The Dodgers bats have to stay alive. They have to find away to create a baserunner. There poor pitching staff what do you do? Bring up the new kids! Let them shine, or crash to be better next year
Ever since we got mookie,efman and munc the offense looks the dodgers.
Dodgers would be at least 5 games up with Ohtani in the 4 spot.
Pissed
Bobby Miller taking the mound tomorrow again, yikes. If he was pitching against a minor league team I’d still be pretty confident he is going to bomb. Wait a minute, he’s bombed consistently against minor league lineups as well. I don’t know if he’ll ever get back to the glory days of his debut but I’m not holding my breath. He needs to get off the roster ASAP though. Blame the 40 man roster for this.
Once the month ends Knack will be back in the mix, he had a good game tonight for OKC, 5 IP, 1 ER, Honeywell pitched 2 scoreless as well, I want to see both of these two back up Sep 1 and Miller back down where he belongs.
As for the position player we bring up, Pages is the obvious choice, he was starting to get back in the groove and was sent down because we could, we can and should bring him back up.
I like Nomar as a commentator overall but he needs to leave his stupid armchair managing aspirations at home.
I can excuse him a bit for his promoting the popular delusion that teams need a set closer, even though it should be clear to anyone using their head that anytime you bring in a guy based on a set rule versus deciding based upon the situation it is a mistake by definition.
The babble about how more pitchers need to go over 100 innings really got me though and there’s no excuse for that. Sure, this rests the pen but Fido you think we should also measure the effect on the starters?
So he says the most pitches anyone has thrown this year is 110 by Jack, did you notice what happened in his next start? He then says that Glasnow and Yamamoto lead the way with 4 100+ outings each, did he notice that both are on the IL now and Yamamoto has yet to come back from his last long outing? How about Stone taking a month to recover from his CG? Leave these decisions to the pros Nomar, I don’t want to ever see anyone go over 100 pitches in this environment actually and thank heaven Doc tries to take care of his starters rather than hanging them out to dry like Nomar is salivating over.
@6:48 I still can’t help but get sore whenever anyone talks down on Walker, it’s been ever so slightly improving for him, and considering how much he’s done for this team, I feel like we owe it to him to not give up until it’s COMPLETELY, ABSOLUTELY, AND TOTALLY HOPELESS.
Worst baseball movie: Angels in the Outfield
Best baseball movie: Field of Dreams?
I was seriously questioning the idea of adding Edman and if anything I’m questioning this even more now that he’s had a little chance to show us what he’s got,
I don’t know what people were expecting but when you take a below average hitter and he sits out for most of the year and is coming back from an injury, do you think he’ll be able to pull his weight?
Heyward, with his poor season at the plate, looks like a slugger compared to Tommy, and yeah Tommy is a better defender and can play short but Jay is still a very good outfielder. The Dodgers seem to be deluded with Edman’s value though which is what tilted the scales. Hearing all the talk about what a great addition he was shares that delusion, at least until he shows us otherwise. I’m hoping hard he does but this will for me come as a surprise, even to the point of wishing Outie was back on the team, whose pitiful ordeal at the plate is still better than anything Tommy has shown us thus far.
I would’ve DFA’d Kiké rather than Heyward. Why do we need 4 utility players on the roster? If it was up to me I would’ve bounced Taylor with his payed contract, but that’s just me.
Heyward gave the Dodgers huge hits this year and especially that 3 run BLAST that was heard around the world. Maybe that blast was going to be the 2023 Heyward.
Heyward and Rosario over KK and Kiké all day
I don’t know of any starters, even the worst ones, that don’t shoot to pitch 6 innings now, and if people think that these guys can get by with pitching with less effort when they are getting racked around trying their best is a clear symptom of brain damage. I’m open to new ideas in improving the game but not the communist dictatorship ideas, ones that are not only bad in principle but make things worse.
Blake, DMac shouted you out on one of his recent lives. Collab soon????