Nomar not ready for rehab
He ran a little bit in the outfield during the early workout today, but the left calf still isn't ready for live game action. ``I felt like I could push it more, so that was good,'' he said. ``I was able to run harder. But at the same time, I couldn't do as much as I wanted to do. There was some tightness and some soreness there, so I had to back off. I did push it to the ceiling, but I still need some time. There is no need to go backward.'' Nomar said he will try some baseball activity -- in layman's terms, that means taking ground balls and possibly batting practice -- tomorrow. ... By the way, I wasn't on the team charter, but a couple of the guys who were told me that the landing was the worst good-weather landing they could remember in years -- ``a three-bouncer,'' as one passenger called it -- and apparently it was so hard that it threw all the luggage in the cargo hold up against the retaining wall so hard that it snapped and jammed the door shut, so it took an hour and a half to get the cargo hold door open to get all the bags off the plane, so the bags didn't arrive at the hotel until really late. ... Anyway, here is tonight's lineup, which doesn't include Andruw Jones for the second game in a row:
LF Pierre
RF Ethier
CF Kemp
2B Kent
1B Loney
C Martin
3B DeWitt
SS Hu
RH Penny
Well, hopefully Ethier's not too rusty to provide the spark that's missing due to Furcal's absence.
A 1.117 OPS at AAA should warrant a look/see...
Has there been any talk among the Dodger Brass about moving DeWitt back to 2B?
I'm glad that Colletti didn't panic and trade some prospects for some proven, veteran mediocrity, such as when Jeff Kent was hurt and he traded Joel Guzman (for whom he should have gotten more) and Sergio Pedroza for Julio Lugo. Yeah, Guzman didn't pan out but he had value at the time, but Lugo was a whining complainer that Grady played too much. At least LA got draft picks for him - Chris Withrow and James Adkins, especially considering they lost their first-rounder (and the Giants got a supplemental also) for Jason Schmidt.
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Andrea - Ethier didn't look too rusty on Sunday.
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Juan Pierre on the homestand:
.143 / .250 / .143 / .393 OPS
Andruw Jones on the same homestand:
.214 / .294 / .357 / .651 OPS
Hey Dave! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to tune into the game until around the time Kuroda went out, and from that point on, the only discussion was about the pitching. Glad to know that Ethier doesn't need any WD-40. ;-)
Cool pre-game interview today, Tony!
thanks Andrea!!!
--- I'm glad that Colletti didn't panic and trade some prospects for some proven, veteran mediocrity, such as when Jeff Kent was hurt and he traded Joel Guzman (for whom he should have gotten more) and Sergio Pedroza for Julio Lugo. ---
Assuming you're refering to Juan Castro... First of all, I doubt you'd have given up prospects, it would have been one low level "prospect" or a career minor leaguer in Vegas. As it is, the Reds got nothing for him. Secondly, and I think Tony can atest, you wouldn't have been getting a "whiner" in Juan Castro.
It's a poor analogy really. Lugo was having a great season offensively until he got to LA. Then he almost completely stopped hitting. Juan Castro had been DFA'd and has NEVER hit. The Dodgers would have known exactly what they were getting.