Thread: Los Angeles Dodgers Thread (Maximum Dodgerness)

Trevor Bauer Placed On Administrative Leave As MLB Weighs Possible Suspension
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/...uspension.html

Originally Posted by San Juan Mountain Man

Trevor Bauer Placed On Administrative Leave As MLB Weighs Possible Suspension
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/...uspension.html

I won't be mad if they suspend him.

Come home, Freeman. Come home.

Pulling Kershaw when he's pitching a perfect game is hellish.

Originally Posted by King87

Pulling Kershaw when he's pitching a perfect game is hellish.

Your manager is not very good. I honestly think you guys win at least one more WS with a better manager.

Originally Posted by chazoe60

Your manager is not very good. I honestly think you guys win at least one more WS with a better manager.

He is a puppet; the organization lives and dies by advanced data and mandate he follow it. To your point, he's not a tactical genius. He's more Joe Torre than Walter Alston

I think Kershaw only backed him up in the media to be a solid dude.

NEW YORK -- The Los Angeles Dodgers opened the season with an all-time-high $310.6 million payroll for purposes of the luxury tax and are on track to pay a record tax of nearly $47 million, according to figures compiled by Major League Baseball and obtained by The Associated Press on Friday.

Five teams exceeded the $230 million threshold as of Opening Day, which if unchanged by the season's end would be one shy of the most, in 2016.

After adding Freddie Freeman and reaching a big one-year deal with Trea Turner, Los Angeles was the only team to exceed the new fourth threshold, the so-called Cohen Tax named after New York Mets owner Steven Cohen. But the Dodgers' payroll would drop by about $28.1 million if the domestic violence suspension of pitcher Trevor Bauer is upheld by an arbitrator. The Dodgers' payroll included $34 million for Bauer, the average of his $102 million, three-year contract.

rest - https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...llion-tax-bill

They're killing us with the Bauer contracts.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...s-best-player/

Over the past five years, Mookie has been baseball’s best
Most wins above replacement (combining batting and pitching) for MLB players since the beginning of the 2018 season

WINS ABOVE REPLACEMENT
PLAYER TEAM(S) AS BATTER AS PITCHER TOTAL
Mookie Betts BOS, LAD 28.0 0.0 28.0
Jacob deGrom NYM 1.6 23.9 25.5
Mike Trout LAA 24.5 0.0 24.5
José Ramírez CLE 23.4 0.0 23.4
Max Scherzer WSN, LAD, NYM 0.1 22.9 23.0
Gerrit Cole HOU, NYY -0.2 21.8 21.6
Nolan Arenado COL, STL 20.9 0.0 20.9
Alex Bregman HOU 20.9 0.0 20.9
Aaron Judge NYY 20.3 0.0 20.3
Francisco Lindor CLE, NYM 20.1 0.0 20.1

So many injuries the past two years. Ugh. We're in trouble. Roberts' stupid prediction looks more foolish by the day.

We aren't a WS contender. That Roberts quote has really aged poorly.