Matt Frese

Right. The problem with PP is 10% bad shooting luck and 90% lack of chances. Being the left-most team on this graph is bad.

Like Vondas said, “Not on the phone, Frank…”

I always assumed Dieter uses that for mound meetings because of “All I ever needed is here in my arm(s), words are very unecessary, they can only do harm.”

Caps so blah that the word “Blah” is more exciting than them.

That’s an Andrew Friedman bat-signal if I ever saw one.

I guess I’m trying to forecast what they should do within the context what I expect they’ll actually do. I agree that including Enrique is a bad idea but I doubt they’ll actually move on from him. (Same thing with Rojas).

That can’t be real. That’s gotta be Key in a wig.

I agree he’s not replicating that season (although I don’t think it was the park for Grisham the way it was for Bellinger - his road splits were way better).

I’m not married to Grisham, but they need a LH OF. Téo, Pages, Call, Edman and Enrique is a bunch of guys who hit lefties but not righties.

I suspect any LHH outfielder other than Tucker will be playing the big side of a LF platoon (with Kiké).

I agree Grisham isn’t an everyday CF anymore. But I think his defense plays fine in LF 19 times and CF 2 or 3 times a month.

I worry that “Mookie as a good SS” has a short life-span and he needs to move back to 2B sooner rather than later.

I also think Grisham makes sense as a LF/occasional CF and on a timeline that doesn’t block Hope/De Paula.

Vacations where you don’t have to worry about having enough books is wonderful.

I could talk myself into trading Sheehan to Boston for Duran and backfilling Sheehan in the rotation with Imai.

Spend the money on Imai to fix LF indirectly, and do it for less term than signing Tucker.

I’m in the stretch between BH and Culver. We lost power (and cell service) for about 20 min. Back now. LADWP still shows a big outage.

It’s hard to be mad at a team that’s 1st in 5v5 GF%, 2nd in 5v5 xGF%, 2nd in SCF%, etc… but it actually makes me more aggravated at special teams not pulling their weight.

The Kershaw “Good” killed me.

They kinda need to make a trade if they’re going to bring in an actual LF (and not just go with a Call/Kiké split out there). Not much room between now and February.

Ruiz probably right. Could Gonsolin be the other one?

That it’s $8M total for him and Protas for the next four years, and not $8M per is crazy.

River Ryan next please and thank you.

It’s also reassuring that Michael Busch and Gavin Lux (whose LH bats were missed last month) didn’t turn into nothing.

The comparison between the left-hand-hitting age-30 OF with 11.7 BWAR the last five years vs the left-hand-hitting age-29 OF with 11.5 BWAR the last five years is going to be really interesting.

Especially with them having opposite Home/Road splits playing for the same team last year.

A few days removed from Dodgers 5, Blue Jays 4, I keep thinking about how this World Series was a big tent. It involved teams from two countries. The Series MVP was from Japan, the Series-winning homer was hit by a guy from Louisville, the season-saving homer was hit by a Venezuelan, the season-saving catch was made by a Cuban, the best player on the losing team was a Canadian of Dominican heritage. These seven games had everything: a blowout, a comeback, a marathon. Half the runs in the Series were scored on homers, yet the conversation after it focused on the length of a player’s lead off third base. By the end of the World Series, I am usually done. (I did, in fact, sleep for the better part of the last two days.) On Sunday, though, I wanted Game Eight. I did not want to let this Series go. I wanted more Shohei, more Mookie, more Vladito. I wanted more of that catcher shaped like a mailbox and that right-handed pitcher who looks like a movie star. I wanted more of that 22-year-old in his first pro season shoving on a $150 million lineup, and the 37-year-old on his way into retirement getting one last big out with the bases loaded in the 12th inning. More Daulton Varsho diving, more Ernie Clement raking, more Justin Wrobleski dealing. More people learning who those three guys even are.

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The TV broadcast said that this year’s route was longer to accommodate more people.

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When Miguel Rojas hit his game-tying home run, it was the ninth-most impactful play in MLB history. It is now the eleventh-most impactful play in MLB history.

When you give 0 AB’s to Conforto and 0 IP to Tanner Scott…

And if I told you the ball needed to be caught in front of the “S” in Rogers, there’s no chance Andy makes the play.

I’m thrilled for him to make that play after the postseason endured.

I agree it should have been Call instead of Kiké.

But I Call doesn’t make the throw on the run. He loads up and fires, and while he throws it harder, it’s not fast enough to make up for the slower release.

That was throw by a former infielder. Not someone who has been playing OF his whole career.