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Dodgers nab five minor leaguers at Rule 5 draft.

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NASHVILLE — The Dodgers passed on their only pick at the major league portion of the Rule 5 draft Thursday, then selected five minor leaguers: Felipe Gonzalez, Julio Morban, Alexander Burgos, Logan Bawcom and Micah Gibbs.

The notable name is Bawcom, a pitcher whom the Dodgers drafted in 2010 out of UT-Arlington and later packaged to Seattle in the Brandon League trade. The 27-year-old right-hander spent the past two seasons with the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate.

As executives filed out of the Gaylord Opryland Hotel on Thursday, the Dodgers officially leave having made one other transaction: a one-year contract with second baseman Chase Utley.

Other than a proposed trade for Aroldis Chapman that was placed on the back burner under bizarre circumstances, it was a fairly quiet Winter Meetings. The Dodgers’ 3-year contract with pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma is pending a physical and could be announced in the next 48 hours.

Stan Kasten wants you to know the Dodgers aren’t trying to buy a championship.

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Here’s one quote that did not make any of the 10 blog posts or two stories I filed from Dodger Stadium yesterday. It’s from Stan Kasten.

“I want to stress … we continue to believe in the importance of building a foundation through scouting and player development,” Kasten said. “We won’t be what we want to be until we build the system of players.”

“The great advantage of this ownership is, we can do both at the same time.”

Sounds a little utopian, right? Let’s take a look at the hit the Dodgers’ farm system just absorbed.

In acquiring Adrian Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez, Shane Victorino, Carl Crawford, Joe Blanton, Josh Beckett, Nick Punto, Randy Choate and Brandon League,here’s what the Dodgers sacrificed from their system:
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What to expect from Brandon League with the Dodgers.

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Brandon League has had an interesting 2012 season. He began as the Seattle Mariners’ incumbent closer, coming off an All-Star season in which he recorded a career-high 37 saves.

The right-hander converted his first five save opportunities out of the Seattle ‘pen this year, then blew four of his next eight chances and lost the job in May to a rotating committee that finally settled on Tom Wilhelmsen. From then on League pitched the seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th innings for the Mariners, including a couple save situations (he went 0-for-2).

That’s why League’s numbers weren’t eye-popping when the Dodgers announced they acquired him Monday night for Single-A outfielder Leon Landry and Double-A pitcher Logan Bawcom. League has an 0-5 record, a 3.63 earned-run average, nine saves in 46 games and 27 strikeouts in 44.2 innings –a 5.4 strikeouts/9 innings ratio.

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Rockies 8, Dodgers 6.

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The Dodgers rallied from a four-run ninth-inning deficit before losing, 8-6, to the Colorado Rockies on Saturday before an announced crowd of 12,465 at Salt River Fields. [box score]

Tim Wheeler‘s two-run, walk-off home run off Logan Bawcom — a reserve reliever from the Dodgers’ minor-league camp — ended the game.

Dodgers starter Nate Eovaldi threw three innings, allowing four hits, no walks and striking out one. His fastball reached into the mid-90s — per the in-house radar reading at Salt River Fields — in his third spring appearance.

Most impressively, Eovaldi was able to work out of some jams to preserve the shutout. He allowed a leadoff single in the second inning that led to a first-and-third, one-out bind, but struck out Wil Nieves and inducing a groundout by Guthrie to end the inning.

Eric Young and Marco Scutaro singled to lead off the third inning. Each moved up a base with one out, but Eovaldi escaped this jam, too.
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