GUESTS:
AFFELDT
MATT BARROWS
PAUL G.
PREGAME 615
CAMP STUFF .....FOSTER PICK 6 SETTLE DOWN--THE MARCUS RUSH STORY
RANDM QUESTION FRIDAY ---ASK FRANNY ANYTHING
HOW OLD IS TOO OLD FOR FANTASY FOOTBALL?
TRAFFIC SOMETIMES....
-WHAT IS THE REGRET ON TATTOO RATE?
TOPICS:
-SHOCKING KAP DOESN'T SIGN - OVERBLOWN STORY - RAVENS SIGN A CAMP ARM
AT SOME POINT , TEAMS AREN'T LIKING WHAT THEY HEAR FROM KAP
-DAVID OLSEN SIGNED
-GIANTS VS. DODGERS - NOT A RIVALRY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
-BEEDE OUT FOR REST OF SEASON
*31.5 REASONS
1. Buster Posey and Brandon Belt are the only Giants players with better than an .800 OPS this season.
The Dodgers have nine players with an OPS of better than .800: Justin Turner, Cody Bellinger, Chris Taylor, Corey Seager, Joc Pederson, Kiké Hernandez, Yasmani Grandal, Yasiel Puig and even backup catcher Austin Barnes.
2. The Dodgers bullpen ranks first in the NL with a 2.86 ERA.
The Giants bullpen ranks sixth in the NL with a 4.11 ERA, which believe it or not, is worse than last year’s unit that blew a franchise-record 32 save opportunities.
Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen, whom the club re-signed to a five year, $80 million contract over the winter, has a 1.42 ERA and has recorded 25 saves in 26 chances. He also has worked multiple innings in 11 of his 42 appearances. He is striking out a nifty 21.67 batters per walk. His 1.38 FIP is the best of his career since he became a closer. Opponents are batting .163.
Giants closer Mark Melancon, whom the club signed to a four-year, $62 million contract over the winter, has a 4.35 ERA with 11 saves in 15 chances and is on the disabled list for the second time this season with right elbow tendinitis. He is striking out 6.33 batters per walk. His 3.64 FIP is the worst of his career since he became a closer. Opponents are batting .298.
3. President Andrew Friedman, who came from Tampa Bay, hasn’t lost his touch for doing more with less. GM Farhan Zaidi honed those same skills as one of Billy Beane’s top lieutenants with the A’s. They are using the greater resources at their disposal to leverage their philosophies, not to abandon them.
The Dodgers front office doesn’t make panic trades, and for this one, you have to include former GM Ned Colletti when you dole out credit. The Dodgers haven’t won a World Series since 1988 and should feel enormous pressure to end that dry spell. But they refused to give up Seager to add Cole Hamels or David Price in previous years, and now they have a shortstop who finished third in the NL MVP balloting last year as a 22-year-old rookie and is having a demonstrably better follow-up season.
The Dodgers haven’t lost their amateur scouting touch. They’ve always been good at finding impact beyond the third round, whether it’s Matt Kemp or Russell Martin or Bellinger – a fourth-round pick out of a Chandler, Ariz., high school who hit just one home run in his senior year. (Again, credit due to Colletti and former longtime scouting director Logan White, now with the Padres.)
4. DODGERS ARE LIKE WARRIORS--TEY ARE MAKING ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
-BILL SHAIKIN OF LA TIMES MUST HAVE BEEN LISTENING LAST NIGHT --IT'S OK TO TRADE PROSPECTS
49ERS:
-THOMAS SIGNS
CAMP QUESTIONS:
-HOW MUCH BETTER CAN THE OFFENSIVE BE WITH SHANAHAN?
-DEFENSE BY HAVING CHIP GONE, GOING TO A SEATTLE 4-3
-JIMMY WARD AT FS
-HOYER AT QB --CJ BETHARD
-RUBEN FOSTER AND HEALTH
-BOWMAN IS HE BOWMAN?
RBS: HYDE VS. JOE WILLIAMS
-PASS RUSH: THOMAS, ARMSTEAD AS THE ELEPHANT, WHERE IS AARON LYNCH , ELVIS DUMERVIL
-CORNERS: U LIKE ROBINSON --WITHERSPOON CAN HE WIN THE OTHER JOB?
BONUS: HOW PATIENT WILL FANS BE --? SEEMS LIKE A HONEYMOON PERIOD BUT.....
-JIMMY WARD ON THE PUP
OTHER:
-GRUDEN A BETTER COACH OR ANALYST THESE DAYS?
CORMIER VS. JONES SATURDAY NIGHT
RORY'S $200K LOST BALL
-aaron judge broke a tooth celebrating last night
-JAMES HARDEN HAS HIS JERSEY RETIRED AT A STRIP CLUB
-WRONG SPELLING TATOO
-SURPRISED THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN MORE OFTEN
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