There is a Nostradamus on the Dodgers. Last night, when Tom Brady and the New England Patriots were down 28-3 to the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI, Joc Pederson tweeted this:
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While we’re patiently waiting for a few plausible roster fluctuations to be ironed out before we publish our intermediate round of 2017 roster projections, we thought we’d take a look at another area of the Dodgers‘ organization that will certainly have a huge impact on the success of the club this year — the outfield.
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Unlike second base, the outfield is not a place that the Dodgers need to add any players. Conversely, they have too many. So where does that leave someone like Andre Ethier coming off an injury-riddled season?
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After sacrificing more than a handful of their most productive contributors to the big league squad when rosters expanded a few weeks ago, the Oklahoma City Dodgers have stayed focused and fought hard, and are now ready to embark upon their final crusade of the 2016 season — a meeting with El Paso in the Pacific Coast League Championship.
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Up until just a few days ago, it seemed as if the Dodgers‘ front office crew was looking to move outfielder Yasiel Puig to another club in hopes of acquiring a player or two who could conceivably upgrade the squad in the 2016 playoffs. While it was rumored the Brewers claimed Puig off waivers and were working on a trade centered around veteran Ryan Braun, both sides failed to reach an agreement, and the Dodgers eventually decided to pull Puig back onto the roster.
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Ever since the initial moment Josh Reddick arrived in Los Angeles as part of the deal that sent three quality prospects to Oakland, fans of the Dodgers have seemingly been viewing him under a microscope, and many have begun to wonder if rookie Andrew Toles is the better option to play every day in right field.
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If any avid Dodgers fan would have predicted in April that the club’s primary outfield group would consist of Howie Kendrick, Joc Pederson and Josh Reddick come the first of August, that particular fan would probably have been ridiculed and eventually ostracized completely from their own individual Dodger community.
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When a team is succeeding and winning at a very high rate, very few statistical aspects of the game are carefully analyzed under a microscope, at least by the fans. Yet when the same squad is underachieving or playing below a set level of expectations, constant scrutiny tends to soar to incredible levels.
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After a seemingly endless seven years in the Chicago White Sox farm system, Dodgers’ rookie Trayce Thompson is finally living his dream as a starting outfielder, and if his early performances are any indication of the future, may conceivably stick to the big league, 25-man roster over the long haul.
With both Carl Crawford and Scott Van Slyke on the 15-day disabled list suffering back problems, Thompson was the easy choice for the starting nod in left field. Even when lefty-killer Enrique Hernandez is inserted into the outfield lineup to get his share of hacks, Thompson can be shifted to any of the three outfield spots, as his defense is undoubtedly the strongest point of his game.
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It’s a bit too early in the season to provide detailed analysis or insightful predictions about any players in the Dodgers‘ organization, but if the first two games against the Padres were indicators of what’s in store, the new version of Yasiel Puig that we’re seeing has the potential of contributing to the team in a huge kind of way.
Originally, the working title of this short, little editorial was intended to be something like “Yasiel Puig Showing Glimpses of Old Self,” however, truth be told, there are a few characteristics that we’re seeing from Puig that have either been invisible or never existed in the past.
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