Check out this incredible photo of a full moon over Dodger Stadium. Pic via twitter @Earth_Pics. (Hat Tip: twitter @kc_douglas)
- Ramona Shelburne at ESPN writes, "Risk vs. reward turns out all reward for Puig".
Veteran baseball men, top player development guys and scouts were comparing Puig to all-time greats like Roberto Clemente and calling him a once-in-a-lifetime player.
Walter listened to them all, intrigued but skeptical.
Could he really be that good? Or did these guys just see the team’s new owners as loose with their money after they’d paid a record $2.15 million to buy the Dodgers?
He listened, and then he did what you’d expect from a brilliant financial mind: He assessed the risk/reward from a completely different perspective.
“When you’re told he’s somebody who can be another Matt Kemp, those players are $20 million a year,” Walter said. “Six years for that player is $120 million, so it’s only got to be a 1-in-3 shot [the $42 million over six years the Dodgers signed Puig for] is worth it.
“It’s a lot less if he really is ready for it.”
- Via Carson Cistulli at Fangraphs, "Ongoing Yasiel Puig Coverage: Puig’s Fourth Home Run".
- "Pick your favorite Yasiel Puig T-shirt," via Mark Townsend at Big League Stew.
@dodgers Mine's better. twitter.com/DavePomerantz/…
— Dave Pomerantz (@DavePomerantz) June 7, 2013
- Via Eric Stephen at True Blue LA, "Old timers day should be here to stay".
- Via a Dodgers press release, they palce Ted Lilly on the 15-day DL and recall Matt Magill to pitch this faternoon.
The Los Angeles Dodgers today placed left-handed pitcher Ted Lilly on the 15-day disabled list (retroactive to June 5) with a neck sprain and recalled right-handed pitcher Matt Magill from Triple-A Albuquerque. Magill, 23, will make today's start for Los Angeles and last pitched on Sunday in a spot start for the Dodgers at Colorado, allowing seven runs (six earned) on five hits in 6.0 innings and taking the loss in the Dodgers' 7-2 defeat. In five big league starts this season, the Simi Valley native is 0-1 with a 6.38 ERA after making his Major League debut on April 27 against the Brewers. Magill has gone 1-0 with a 2.16 ERA and a .183 opponents' batting average in five starts with Triple-A Albuquerque this year.
- Drool. Cardboard Junkie shares a bunch of pics of vintage Baseball cards sitting in cases at a cards show. It reminds me of the good old days.
- This is just great. Via Mark Townsend at Big League Stew, "Diamondbacks draft paralyzed Arizona State player Cory Hahn in 34th round".
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