Dodgers Prospects In Arizona Fall League

The Dodgers announced yesterday that they will be sending seven prospects to the Arizona Fall League.

The seven players are:

Javy Guerra-RHP
Jon Link-RHP
Justin Miller-RHP
Matt Wallach-C
Ivan DeJesus-2B
Jerry Sands-1B/RF
Trayvon Robinson-CF

They will be coached by Don Mattingly. I guess he's going to be staying with the organization.

Scott Podsednik Is Lazy, Uninterested In Baseball

He doesn't even have the courtesy to put his cap on when he's lounging around out there in left field.

Must be distracted by his smoking hot wife. Or he's just not mentally tough enough.  Not intelligent. Not gritty enough. Not a gamer. Not enough dirt on his uniform.

Around The Web: Dodger Divorce Edition

Bill Shaikin and friends have been owning the divorce trial over at the Los Angeles Times. Click here, here, here, and here.

Perhaps the most frightening story is the last link, where it exposes the franchise's debt situation.

Since buying the Dodgers for $430 million six years ago, Frank McCourt has so heavily leveraged the team — $433 million in debt as of last year — that he has struggled to find additional financing.

Joy.

Josh Fisher of Dodger Divorce is on top of the divorce as well, putting up updates here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Most importantly though, he put up this awesome primer.

Personally, I prefer to follow him on this because he explains it better. Speaking of following, he gives quicker updates on Twitter.

Follow Molly Knight as well, who is giving updates on Twitter.

Down On The Farm: Week Of August 22nd In Review

John Lindsey|1B|AAA|33-Still rooting for him to get called up, and he finished the week strong, homering in back-to-back games. I guess you could say he's "struggling", as his OPS has dropped to a horrid 1.073.

Russ Mitchell|3B|AAA|25-Whenever I look at his stat line, I have to keep repeating to myself, "It's just Albuquerque, it's just Albuquerque", because he's absolutely raking. He compiled 15 hits this week, including 3 homers.

Rubby De La Rosa|HP|AA|21-Another quality start against advanced bats, striking out six and surrendering just one earned in seven innings. He did walk four batters, and the walk rate is higher than in A-ball, but that's expected.

Chris Withrow|RHP|AA|21-I guess he was tired of only negative reports coming in about him, as he responded by walking none, allowing no runs, and striking out five over seven innings.

Aaron Miller|LHP|A+|22-Welcome back? He went 13 scoreless innings in two starts, including 11 strikeouts and 5 walks. He also flirted with a no-no in his August 27th trip to the hill.

Matt Magill|RHP|A|20-Dude is a boss right now, as he has better peripherals than Allen Webster does. He had 16 strikeouts and 4 walks in 11 innings this week, only surrendering a couple of runs and six hits.

Jake Lemmerman|SS|R|21-How good has he been? I considered not putting him on this list because he only had 8 hits in 20 at-bats, and I wasn't sure if it was even worth mentioning because it's so common.

Dodger Talk, Memories Of Kevin Malone, And Matt Kemp

As Greg mentioned in August 30th's Game Recap, Memories Of Kevin Malone got a lengthy mention from the good guys over at Dodger Talk.

You can hear the audio here, and the discussion starts at around the 18 minute mark.

Greg also took the time to make an abridged transcript for me. About time!

Josh: "Everyone mandatory reading should be to go to memoriesofkevinmalone.com, one of the really, really good Dodger blogs. Chad wrote a very impressive statistical and mechanical analysis about what’s been wrong with Matt Kemp this year. There’s no way I can do justice for it on the radio, but there’s basically five points that I will focus on that I read from Chad’s article."

*Details Five Points From Your Article*

“Number four, most importantly."

“He’s got like these great little GIFs….”

“I know it’s something that Don Mattingly is aware of, they’ve worked on….”

Ken: “They’ve been working on it endlessly before games. Yeah."

Josh: “Yeah."

“If anything, maybe he’s been too passive.”

“I highly encourage people to read memoriesofkevinmalone.com, it’s got a great statistical analysis of what’s been wrong with Matt Kemp at the plate this year."

Ken: “All those 5 points are very valid, expect when a guy’s strikeout rate goes up so drastically you figure there has to just be some judgment problem.

So he’s had five points there and not one involved Rihanna, okay so what does that say? This guy’s not doing his homework." (Laughs)

Josh: “This guy, he was the one who had a really great breakdown of Chad Billingsley and how Chad wasn’t trusting his four-seam fastball back in April, and it was spot on, it was nails. And ever since Chad went back to throwing the four-seam fastball, it was when he turned his season around too."

Ken: “Alright, maybe we should hire this guy."

Josh: “That’s what I was actually thinking. I’m like, man, maybe the Dodgers should hire this guy, this guy knows his stuff."

Besides stroking my own ego and laughing maniacally, I found it interesting that they mentioned Don Mattingly is indeed working with Matt Kemp on the problem.

Like with the Chad Billingsley thing in April, I guess that proves two things: 1) i'm not completely making things up and 2) the coaches at least sort of know what they are doing in regards to mechanical advice. Either that, or they read this site. Hahaha.