Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Dodgers Edition
- Updated: November 26, 2014
We like to start our day searching the web and reading articles about our beloved LA sports teams. It’s easy to get lost in the depth of the inter web, but luckily for you we have compiled a list of the most interesting and pertinent news stories for your morning reading pleasure. For this edition, let’s dive into the news surrounding the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Los Angeles Times discusses the Dodgers recent moves, or lack thereof:
‘The Boston Red Sox got Hanley Ramirez, and Pablo Sandoval too.
The Dodgers got Juan Nicasio. He is a pitcher, given away by the Colorado Rockies, the team most desperate for pitching in all of baseball.
It was that kind of Monday in Los Angeles, on Day 42 of the Friedman administration.
Yes, spring training does not open for three months. Yes, the Dodgers have time to fill vacancies at shortstop, catcher, on their pitching staff and, with the departure of Ramirez, in the heart of their batting order.
And yet the team with the highest payroll in North American sports history has added these players since Andrew Friedman replaced Ned Colletti as the architect of the Dodgers’ roster: Nicasio, Joel Peralta, Adam Liberatore, Mike Bolsinger, Kyle Jensen and Ryan Jackson. The first four are pitchers. On Monday, three weeks after they picked up Jackson, they cut him.
Friedman understands that Dodgers fans do not want to hear about trusting the process. They want a World Series, that magical place visited by every other team in the National League West since the Dodgers last got there in 1988.”
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ESPN.com talks about the new competition for Juan Nicasio to be a starter:
“The Dodgers acquired pitcher Juan Nicasio from the Colorado Rockies for a player to be named or cash, the team announced Monday, continuing a trend of stockpiling young, inexpensive pitchers who could compete this spring to be the team’s fifth starter or an extra bullpen arm.
Nicasio, 28, went 6-6 with a 5.38 ERA for the Rockies last season pitching in both relief and as a starter, but in his first three seasons in the big leagues he was exclusively a starter. Nicasio is 21-22 with a 5.03 ERA in 88 major league games.
Many people wondered what the Dodgers’ new front office would do in its first offseason, and it certainly appears new team president Andrew Friedman and general manager Farhan Zaidi won’t spend money the way outgoing GM Ned Colletti did in his last few seasons on the job.
Nicasio, who made $2.025 million last season, is eligible for arbitration. The Rockies had designated him for assignment.
Last week, the Dodgers acquired Mike Bolsinger from the Arizona Diamondbacks for cash. It appears Friedman and Zaidi are hoping that moving Nicasio and Bolsinger from Coors and Chase fields, two of the extreme hitters’ parks in baseball, to spacious Dodger Stadium will change their fortunes.”
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