Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Blog Kiosk: 3/19/2019 - Dodgers Links - Some Odds and Ends


Above is a spring pic I ran across featuring a bunch of Dodgers' in front of the Bear Mountain Inn in New York. As you know, during the wartime 40's the club spent their spring in upstate New York. Unfortunately, I do not know when the photo was taken and the only person I recognize is Leo Durocher -- he's the fellow in the middle wearing the white sweater and unbuttoned coat.

Below are more links to check out:

  • Via Paul Lukas at UniWatch; "Cup of Plenty: MiLB Drops a Whopping 72 Hispanic Unis." The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (Temblores), Tulsa Drillers (Petroleros de Tulsa) and the Oklahoma City Dodgers (Cielo Azul) will participate this season.
  • Per David Hood at True Blue LA; "2019 top Dodgers prospects: No. 21-25."
  • Get it! Via Jon Weisman at Dodger Thoughts; "Brothers in Arms now available as an audiobook!"
  • Via Skye Sverdlin at Turf Show Times; "What if Los Angeles Rams Owner Stan Kroenke had bought the Los Angeles Dodgers?: Back when the future of the Rams was in limbo, Kroenke’s bid to purchase the Dodgers was huge deal. How would things look now if his bid had gone through?"
  • Per Bill Plunkett at The Press-Enterprise; "Three-year odyssey has Brad Miller fighting for spot on Dodgers’ bench."
“The big thing with some of these teams that are going younger – I’ll say politically correct, they’re going younger – a guy like me I’m not flexible. I don’t have options. I’m not a flexible roster piece. If I perform, they have no incentive to reward that whereas the Dodgers are trying to win. If I show I’m deserving of a spot, they’ll find a spot. No question. That’s kind of my mindset.”
The man Lasorda considers a traitor is instead first-year director of pro scouting Zack Minasian, who happens to be the godson of the former Dodgers manager.
“He said he bleeds Dodger blue,” Minasian said. “I joke I was baptized in it.”
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“I think the most important thing to me is that we’re striving to be the best at everything we do,” Minasian said. “I want us to have the best scouting department, I want us to have the best analytics department … I want us to always be pushing forward technologically and I think Farhan thinks the same way.”

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