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By: Garret Anderson Chooses an Appropriate Number « Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:31:03 +0000

[...] than the best lefty bench option, and quite easily. They could have signed a lefty 4th outfielder (like the names I suggested, such as Randy Winn or Gabe Gross) rather than righty Reed Johnson, and it’s not even that I [...]

By: I’d Rather Have a Good Team With No Ace Than the Inverse « Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:46:39 +0000

[...] In the outfield, DeRosa won’t kill you, but nor is he anywhere near as good as the stellar Randy Winn was with the glove. Meanwhile, the Dodgers were one of the top fielding teams in baseball last [...]

By: Alfredo Amezaga To Dodgers

Alfredo Amezaga To Dodgers — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:24:26 +0000

[...] with Amezaga in the fold there is an option who plays all over the field, including the outfield. Mike Scioscia’s Tragic Illness summed it up nicely last [...]

By: Is Reed Johnson Your New Backup Outfielder? « Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:13:22 +0000

[...] may have noticed that Johnson’s name didn’t come up in my post about available players earlier this week. That’d be because Johnson is a righty hitter, which goes against everything we’d been [...]

By: KempKershaw

KempKershaw — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:31:18 +0000

Free Xavier Paul.

By: An Extra Outfielder Might Not Be A Central Issue

An Extra Outfielder Might Not Be A Central Issue — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:53:43 +0000

[...] at least out of spring training. Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness did a good job the other day breaking down the potential candidates to fill that [...]

By: An Extra Outfielder Might Not Be A Central Issue | Dodgers Baseball Talk

An Extra Outfielder Might Not Be A Central Issue | Dodgers Baseball Talk — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:30:33 +0000

[...] at least out of spring training. Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness did a good job the other day breaking down the potential candidates to fill that [...]

By: A Preemptive Strike « Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness

A Preemptive Strike « Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:04:13 +0000

[...] Preemptive Strike January 29, 2010 at 4:04 pm | In Garrett Anderson | Leave a Comment Remember the other day, when I went through some options the Dodgers might be interested in for the role of lefty [...]

By: Dre

Dre — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:16:24 +0000

Winn signed with the Yankees today, so he’s out.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:32:47 +0000

The only way that we will be able to carry Belliard, Carroll and DeWitt, is if the 25th man is a glove man who can play above average SS and OF… Someone like Amezega. He’s worthless with the bat, but someone who can play above average defense in CF and SS is pretty rare, and does have value as the last man on certain benches. If we did add someone like that the 4th OF would have to be someone who could hit. I like Winn in that role, and I think he could bounce back some from the down year. If he can get it back together he’s good to have for inter league, as he‘s a fringe starter now and a pretty decent starter at his best.

Speaking of Amezega’s ability to play good CF and SS, Repko was drafted as a shortstop, I know its an idea that’s been floated around the blogosphere a few times, but he’s really getting to that age where he needs to add some value to what he brings to the table if he wants to stick on an ML roster, like when Jason Grabowski tried to add third string catcher to his resume. If Repko could get to even an average level at SS in ST he’d have a real good chance of sticking on the roster.

If we ended up with the following bench going into the season I’d be OK with it:

OF Winn S
1B/2B/3B Belliard R
2B/3B Carroll R
OF/SS Amezega/Repko R
C Ausmus R

obviously you’d want 1 more left handed bat, but overall it’s not bad (and if DeWitt doesn’t win the job in ST he’d be a second lefty bat off of the bench.) I’m not ready to just hand a job over to him without any competition yet, and realistically the 2B position will be hitting 8th in the lineup, and we have 3 guys who wouldn’t kill you in that spot, let ‘em fight it out, someone will step up and take the job.