Here's a pic of Vin Scully entering the plane to Australia, via @MLB on twitter. Check out even more pics of the Dodger trip and landing from Jon SooHoo, here. And here are some pics from their first workout at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
- JP Hoornstra at Inside the Dodgers shares a great time-lapse video of the Sydney Cricket Ground transforming into a Baseball diamond.
- Chad Moriyama at Dodgers Digest shares his Top 25 Dodger Prospects.
- The end of an era.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross officially closed the #Dodgers case today, after 995 days.
— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) March 17, 2014
- Adam Nodiff at the Baseball Professor writes, "5 Gut Calls On Players Outside Our Top 200," and it includes a prediction about Alexander Guerrero.
Sometimes the absence of seeing a player play gets mistaken for upside. This is not the case here. I have watched Guerrero this spring, and although he doesn’t seem to have a great baseball IQ, the guy can flat out hit for power. As a second baseman with a full season of at bats, I wouldn’t be surprised if he led the position in home runs.
- Howard Megdal at Sports on Earth writes about the improving Dodger farm system in a piece titled, "Young Money".
"I don't think our vision has really changed," (De Jon) Watson told me as we sat in a golf cart on the third base side of a minor league field where many of the prospects in his charge played an intra-squad game on Friday afternoon. "What's really nice is that we've actually invested into the international market. And it's given us a broader player pool to choose from. Whereas before, I don't want to say we were just domestically-I mean, [Vice President of Amateur Scouting] Logan White was doing internationally and domestic-but we just didn't have the resources to really go out and be aggressive on the international market.
- Ken Gurnick at MLB.com writes, "Figgins, Turner thrilled to join Dodgers".
"It's almost more gratifying than being called up to the big leagues," said Figgins, released twice in the last two years. "The last four years have been hard. I wouldn't say it was life changing, but it makes me appreciate the hard work. I was with my wife when I got the call from my agent, and it was emotional. She's seen me come home the last four or five years, watching video and not playing. Now she sees me smile again."
- Via Mark Saxon at ESPNLosAngeles.com, "Dodgers, D-backs enjoy a historic venue".
* Please follow on twitter @ernestreyes *
* Like Dodgers Blue Heaven on facebook *
* Dodgers Blue Heaven home page *
No comments:
Post a Comment