Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Dodgers Edition
- Updated: December 1, 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.
Bleacher Report discusses their five predictions for the 2014 Winter Meetings:
“New president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and general manager Farhan Zaidi have already made several minor moves since taking over the front office in October, but there are still question marks facing the team in the midst of a culture shift.
Although the Dodgers are still one of the richest organizations in baseball, the tactic of throwing money at elite free agents has seemingly been replaced by a more analytical and cost-effective approach to improving the team.
Here are five predictions for what Los Angeles will ultimately decide to do at the upcoming winter meetings.
The biggest on-field personnel move for the Dodgers this winter was the departure of shortstop Hanley Ramirez, who declined Los Angeles’ qualifying offer and signed with the Boston Red Sox for $88 million over four years, per Gordon Edes of ESPNBoston.com.
With the decision, Ramirez ended his two-and-a-half-year tenure with the Dodgers and left a gaping hole at the shortstop position. Los Angeles must now make one of two realistic choices.”
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ESON.com presents the case of the apparent shortage Dodgers have a shortstop:
“The same day that Hanley Ramirez came to an agreement to play for the Boston Red Sox for at least the next four years, the Seattle Mariners committed $100 million over seven years to their third baseman, Kyle Seager.
Just four months ago, here is what Seager had to say about the Dodgers’ No. 1 position-player prospect, a shortstop who happens to be his younger brother Corey:
“He pretty much does everything that I’m doing, but just a little better. He’s bigger, stronger, faster, he runs better. He’s good. He’s going to do a lot of really good things in this game.”
That’s the context for what the Dodgers are looking to do to replace Ramirez: Think short term. It’s why the idea of locking up Ramirez — and paying him something like $22 million when he’s 33 and 34 — became less and less appealing as Seager continued to dominate at Class A and, eventually, Double-A. “
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