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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Dunson: Yasiel Puig Is Not An All-Star, Somebody Lied

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posted 5 hours ago by Repoz to dodgers | 4 comment(s)

Gotta check those Disabled List League numbers…had no idea Bryce Harper was slumping.

No, it’s not more ridiculous than the backhanded campaign to start Mariano Rivera in his final Summer Classic. This one is a bit premature. Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig’s 13-game MLB career is barely older than baby Kimye and he has barely played 40 games in the minors, but that hasn’t stopped fans from charging the hype machine and pushing his All-Star candidacy.

Puig-mania doesn’t have the ...

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1. Tripon posted on December 09, 2012 at 10:10 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

6/60 million, total, including postal fee.

2. Brian White posted on December 09, 2012 at 10:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

So, they've got eight starting pitchers under contract? Are they going to trade someone? Stash a few dudes in AAA (if they can)? Eight man rotation? Rangers-style 2x4 rotation?

3. bobm posted on December 09, 2012 at 10:24 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

The Dodgers have signed Korean left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu, tweets Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com. ... Ryu, represented by Scott Boras

How does Heyman scoop the competition?

4. Tripon posted on December 09, 2012 at 10:25 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

The Dodgers seems to be taking a fantasy baseball viewpoint. Take as many starting talent as you can, and then bench players who could play for you and only use them when injuries happen.

5. Walt Davis posted on December 09, 2012 at 10:41 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

6/60 million, total, including postal fee.

Man, stamp prices have really gone up. :-)

6. Rennie's Tenet posted on December 09, 2012 at 10:44 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Any chance the new owners think they bought both LA teams?

7. JRVJ posted on December 09, 2012 at 10:57 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

It's somewhat surprising that Bud-Zilla is allowing the Dodgers new owners to go so hog wild.

8. Tripon posted on December 09, 2012 at 11:01 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

JRVJ: Selig can't stop it. The bankruptcy court won't allow it.

9. akrasian posted on December 09, 2012 at 11:05 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

#2, I expect at least Capuano or Harang to be traded, quite possibly both - especially if they can get a near major league ready arm back. Lilly should be ready by spring training, so he could be traded early in the season if Billingsley looks healthy.

Colletti will probably try to get marginal major league talent - I'm hoping they get some prospects to help rebuild the system.

10. Gold Star - just Gold Star posted on December 09, 2012 at 11:09 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Colletti will probably try to get marginal major league talent - I'm hoping they get some prospects to help rebuild the system.

I'd like a mix of prospects and bench strength.

11. Jeff Frances the Mute posted on December 09, 2012 at 11:18 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

The Dodgers will need some prospects to go with Zach Lee for when they acquire King Felix and/or David Price.

12. akrasian posted on December 09, 2012 at 11:22 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

The Dodgers will need some prospects to go with Zach Lee for when they acquire King Felix and/or David Price.

Hopefully Colletti will realize this.

13. Yastrzemski in left. posted on December 09, 2012 at 11:31 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Random Prediction: Beckett will either not be in the starting rotation or not be a Dodger by All-Star Break.

14. JRVJ posted on December 09, 2012 at 11:44 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

8, Bud works in many mysterious ways. Not all of them are all that lawful, and in the clubby world of MLB ownership, you would think the Dodgers owners should beware of Bud's powers.

15. KT's Pot Arb posted on December 09, 2012 at 11:58 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

#2, I expect at least Capuano or Harang to be traded, quite possibly both - especially if they can get a near major league ready arm back. Lilly should be ready by spring training, so he could be traded early in the season if Billingsley looks healthy.

The new market efficiency is not signing free agents, letting the Dodgers overpay for them, and wait to get handed their perfectly cromulent castoffs.

16. akrasian posted on December 10, 2012 at 12:02 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'd like a mix of prospects and bench strength.

The Dodgers can sign bench strength.

17. Rowland Office Supplies posted on December 10, 2012 at 12:02 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

The Giants should sign Evil Ryu.

18. PreservedFish posted on December 10, 2012 at 12:07 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I remember Hadouken, and Shoryuken, but I had to look up the third Ryu special move, that one where he spins in the air and kicks like a helicopter and yells something like "hut-pry-ket-pyru-ket!" Apparently it's called the Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku.

19. The Clarence Thomas of BBTF (scott) posted on December 10, 2012 at 01:07 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

The Giants should sign Evil Ryu.

You mean Ken?

I always hated Ken for some reason. But then I always played Vega/Chun-Li. I always wanted to play Zangief, but he was too damned slow.

20. RollingWave posted on December 10, 2012 at 01:32 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I see this post has gone in an interesting direction.... at least in the first couple of Street Fighters Chun-Li is generally the most fool proof ... errr wait.

Anyway I'd be interested in seeing how Ryu fare in the US, I'd figure he'd probably do well enough with the Dodgers and then entice a team playing in a bandbox to sign him to a crazy contract before being best remembered for fly kicking someone in a brawl and/or take out base running move... hmm wait (i really did saw an old KBO clip where some dude basically went all Bruce Lee in a take out move.)

21. Walt Davis posted on December 10, 2012 at 02:07 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Random Prediction: Beckett will either not be in the starting rotation or not be a Dodger by All-Star Break.

Well, sure ... by the AS break they'll have added Felix, Price, Verlander, Cain and Hologram Fernando and Kershaw will be pitching long relief ... in Albuquerque!*

*Is the Dodgers AAA team still there? They probably haven't been there for 25 years or something you're about to tell me.

22. Tripon posted on December 10, 2012 at 02:12 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

The Dodgers moved back to Albuquerque about 3-4 years ago after a lengthy stay in Las Vegas. They just signed another 2 year extension to stay for the next two years.

23. Walt Davis posted on December 10, 2012 at 02:52 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

The Dodgers moved back to Albuquerque about 3-4 years ago after a lengthy stay in Las Vegas. They just signed another 2 year extension to stay for the next two years.

Glad to know I'm so old I'm au courant again!

24. Greg (U)K posted on December 10, 2012 at 05:35 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I always hated Ken for some reason. But then I always played Vega/Chun-Li. I always wanted to play Zangief, but he was too damned slow.

I played Dhalsim so I could stay on the far side of the screen and slap guys at a distance.

Did anyone ever play Time Killers?

25. Paul D(uda) posted on December 10, 2012 at 08:47 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Evil Ryu and Super Akuma were added to later releases - they're not Ken. I never could beat them in SF Alpha 2.

26. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines posted on December 10, 2012 at 09:56 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

The Dodgers hope Ryu has a career as good as Ken.

27. willcarrolldoesnotsuk posted on December 10, 2012 at 12:06 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Rangers-style 2x4 rotation?

I guess I haven't been paying attention, I think I missed this one. What is it?

28. zack posted on December 10, 2012 at 12:20 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I think Mr. White was referring to the Rockies. Mid-year they started using two starters per game for 3 or 4-inning stints because their rotation was so terrible.

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