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jake_malinka
Hurry up Dodgers and trade Alex Guerrero
mack22 2
I drink to that!
Philliesfan4life
If they trade him, they won’t get much back because he will be a 1 year rental.
mstrchef13
Who would be interested in him? He can’t play defense well enough to justify his average and obp, and he doesn’t hit well enough to be a full-time dh. Then, there’s the salary on top of it, the fact that he can’t be optioned without his permission, and the fact that as soon as he is traded be becomes a virtual free agent at the end of the year. He is a sunk cost for the Dodgers.
tommyLA
Someone with a weak defensive infield. By no means would he be an upgrade. But he could DH and platoon at 3rd, lf, or 2nd. I see the Angels very interested, they would stay under the luxury tax if the dodgers paid most of the remaining for mid to low level prospects.
BlueSkyLA
This. Guerrero could be a very inexpensive experiment with some potential for a big payoff, especially for an AL team.
theo2016
A non contender should pick him up and let him start for half the year. If he does well then maybe a team wants him at the deadline. From what he showed last year hes not even a good depth piece.
socalbum
Sierra deal appears to be another massive overpayment by Dodgers
BlueSkyLA
How “massive” can it be at $6M/year? What do teams get for that kind of money these days? BTW your comment sounds eerily like what I heard about Ryu when he was signed. That was also supposed to be a massive overpayment.
reignaado
” last December”
Whoops, check that. It was last October.
mstrchef13
Nice that Mr. Saito was hired by someone. Now, it’s Mr. Fuji’s turn.
YourDaddy
What is funny is that when you look at Pitch F/X, Cashner didn’t lose any drop on his sinker. He increased it from 5.7 to 6.5. He did lose some lateral movement on the sinker as it didn’t fade into RHB quite as much. -8.6 vs -8.2
The change that needs to be made is where the sinker was called for in 2015 by Norris. Over 40% of all 2 seam FB called by Norris were called in the upper half of the zone or higher which resulted in a 20% increase in line drives on the pitch. Its most effective use is inside to a RHB and down in the zone. It also was called for just 7% of 1st pitches. What is better for a pitcher than getting some guy to ground out on a sinker low in the zone early in the count?
Cashner needed to make changes to the release point on his slider which Norris called for 40% more of the time than Padres catchers had in 2014. The slider accounted for most of the home runs given up in 2015 even though it was just 22% of the pitches. It’s not a good pitch and never has been a good one for Cash.
Which brings us back to the fact that Norris needs to change the way he calls the game or the pitchers need to ignore him and go back to what they did in 2014 because all of them had a worse year in 2015 with Norris behind the plate.
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
I didn’t know Norris was the one pitching.
ddubz41
Even though Norris wasn’t pitching, he was still calling the game. And the pitcher is more than likely to follow his battery mates call. But as a pitcher you should start seeing what’s working and what isn’t. So the blame kind of falls on both here.