The Dodgers have made a couple of changes to their 28-man roster ahead of the NLCS, per the team. Let’s check it out:
Right-Handed Pitchers
- Pedro Báez
- Walker Buehler
- Dylan Floro
- Tony Gonsolin
- Brusdar Graterol
- Kenley Jansen
- Joe Kelly
- Dustin May
- Blake Treinen
Left-Handed Pitchers
Catchers
Infielders
Outfielders
The most notable changes here include dropping Terrance Gore and Gavin Lux from the roster. Gore’s role is limited to pinch-running, but he had not been used in the first two rounds of the postseason. Lux, meanwhile, is one of the organization’s most talented young players. He played a key role in last year’s playoffs, when he started three games of the NLDS against the Nationals. He had just one at-bat this postseason, however, after slashing .175/.246/.349 across 69 plate appearances in the regular season.
Lux himself had been a replacement for Rios, who missed the ALDS due to a hamstring injury. He is apparently healthy enough to return to the roster.
The other addition is Wood, who becomes the 15th member of the pitching staff. It will be surprising to see Wood start a game, except perhaps in an opener capacity. At the very least, he should be able to provide length out of the bullpen. Wood’s best years have come with the Dodgers, but he’s struggled to get himself on track the last two seasons. He made two starts and nine total appearances for the Dodgers this year, going 0-1 with a 6.39 ERA/5.01 FIP across 12 2/3 innings.
Let’s go!
Away,please.
Stay north of San Clemente,please.
Geographically, I should be rooting for.the Dodgers right? Even though they dispatched of my Padres. That’s most Dodger fans logic.
To be honest when the Giants went on their amazing run I had a soft spot for their team, even as a Padres fan.
The Muncy led Dodgers, I just can’t stomach to root for.
The Giants were plucky, exceeded expectations built their team through the farm and shrewd free-agent acquisitions.
The Dodgers were gifted Mookie Betts. Amazing how after the Betts trade few Dodger fans complain of the Red Sox cheating scandal.
The Dodgers have MLBs second highest payroll and are supposed to win it all.
How can Dodger fans justify asking for Padres fans support or respect?
They regularily take over Petco. They are obnoxious and rude. They routinely insult the weaker Padres franchise.
Yet, as Padres fans we are to tip.our caps and root,root,root for the Dodgers?
Absurd logic.
Out of curiosity, who are you talking to?
@WiseCounsell
He’s speaking to imindless. Pretty clear.
His “Let’s go” comment was pretty inflammatory. Rant on.
Typical Pods fan jealousy. Your team might be the Padres, but the Dodgers are their Daddy. Btw, Betts was no gift as the Dodgers traded good value to get him. The Padres, on the other hand, wanted the Red Sox to take on Will Myers’ bloated contract. So in that sense, it was the gift of Padres’ stupidity that helped the Dodgers acquire Betts.
Andrew Friedman is the best executive in the game. His fingerprints are all over the Rays and these Dodgers. And he used the same principles in building both rosters by focusing on scouting, drafting, and player development. A bit more payroll leeway with the Dodgers, but the philosophy is the same. Get the most bang for your buck and don’t overspend in the free-agent market.
Enjoy your winter, Pods fan. Your team’s next step is proving they can fashion a winning record over the course of a normal schedule. They haven’t done that very often in their first 52 years, but you already know that.
@Mo4ever
Clearly there’s some history there that I don’t know about because I’m not sure that a “Let’s go” comment implies everything towinagain is taking offense to in his response. I must not be reading between the lines well enough. I’ll look over the two word comment again and see what I’m missing.
“Andrew Friedman is the best executive in the game. His fingerprints are all over the Rays and these Dodgers. ”
And the Braves, with AA in charge.
Friedman’s fingerprints are all over two of the four teams. The drafting. The player development. The depth. The payroll management. That is all Friedman. No one else is operating at that level. The guy is brilliant.
Where’s Friedman’s World Series ring?
Jokes aside, I do agree, he is great, but you have to consider the context of “best.” He was the best on the Rays. On the Dodgers, he really has as much money as he wants to use.
Wait until Betts declines and that contract looks ugly then call him the best.
Yawn
No one claims mindless is anyone but a single poster, but trolls like you who want to rip the guy and want to start crap on a new thread
why don’t you go away? You’re a pretend padre fan. You just admitted it here. You’re just here to be a dk Tow. So Woosh
Such a boring, old narrative
Money money money. Except the dodger roster is prolly the most home grown roster sans TB in the whole playoff scheme. But it’s all money!
@wise
It’s a continued “padre fans look for anything to claim dodger fans are disparaging them”
It’s a freakin NLCS roster post. Who’s talking about the padres but him?
@Commonsenseslapsyou
Betts is the difference factor this year and he’s not all homegrown. Neither is Pollock, Turner, Muncy…
I agree they have a lot of “homegrown” guys, but they rely on big money guys as well.
Betts wasn’t a Free Agent. He was acquired by trading home-grown. In a sense, he’s still a product of the farm.
@pwn
Keeping Mookie long term is money. Sure. But let’s not act like LA is only team paying a star 30M to stay
More importantly though, he was acquired only because of the farm. Not many teams had a OFer with 5 years of control; a strong rookie season and strong prospect pedigree, a top 100 and rising SS prospect who can impact both sides of the ball; and a catching prospect..
Pollack is Friedman’s sole big money free agent signing, that wasn’t on the team already. But sure, that one is money
Now, both JT and Muncy came to LA as outcasts from their former organizations on minor league deals. So they came in making ~500k
That’s a big money deal now? Just because they helped their development to a point where They are impact hitters, then signed extensions. You’re calling THAT flexing money muscle too? Getting a little questionable there
And the Giants with Zaidi.
If Padres’ fans don’t want Dodgers’ fans at their games, they should buy the tickets. Besides, good food at the Randy Jones stand.
Dismissing Turner and Muncy because they aren’t “homegrown,” made me realize that a new category is needed that is the hallmark of good teams. That’s the ability to acquire players like Turner, Muncy, McGee, Blanton, Dayton, Watson, and Cingrani and develop their skills, Or to track unemployed, or underused players who have hired private trainers, and improved their game. Players can be developed through the farm system, and after they’ve reached the majors.
Very much agree Greg. The ability to tap into talented players potential that other organizations couldn’t tap, that should be “rewarded” if you will
I wouldn’t call it a “scandal.” Red Sox had one offense and were reprimanded for it. We lost a draft pick and unloaded Cora. It had minimal effect on the game.
It’s a different than the Astros “scandal.” Yes, still blame us, but it wasn’t that big.
Dodger fans don’t care if you root for us or not. Just remember that we’ll always be the Padre’s daddy!
No need to reply to an idiotic comment by a salty Padre fan. Most of what he posted was nonsensical garbage.
@towinagain Is another reason why dodgers fans clap back at stooge padres fans. Stupid comments like this littered on every single dodgers post. According to javia the dodger fans are the ones responsible for most of the trash talk though.
@imindless sure the Pads ownership will gladly take Bums fans duckets but consensus from a majority of Pads fans…ya ain’t welcome in Petco.
So move along
@towinagain idk we seem pretty welcome every time we come down and the stadium is filled to the brim with dodger fans. Actually outnumbering padres fans in their own stadium is pretty sad maybe that upsets you. It’s not going to change though as the tickets are super cheap. Thanks for the tip though!
Stick to ypur egocentric, arrogant, obnoxious, self-inflated misrepresentation of the So-Cal populace kind. Birds of a feather…
@towimagain beginning to think all padres burners are javia….sorry your sensitivity about your overhyped ball club lead you here. We won, move on. Your insecurities about yourself and your team lead you to spew venom and hatred towards others unjustly. No one cares for the poetic double talk. NEXT.
Overhyped. You beat a Padres team decimated by injuries to it’s starting rotation.
You thump your chest as if you beat the 27′ Yankees.
Considering the injuries, most Pads fans were content with how far we advanced.
Give the Pads the LA budget and they win a WS in the near future.
Insecurities, no I just espouse the truth.
There is a reason the rest of the nation refers to LA as lala land.
Hollywood is a fitting representation of the average Dodger fan, an Egotistical, self-congratulating, selfie-obsessed, IG-influencer individual.
Take a trip down the 5 in rush hour traffic and you will see what I mean.
Decimated by injuries hahahahaha missing 2 pitchers quantifies the entire team? The offense was still intact and scored 10 runs in 3 games! Slam Diego? More like sham diego! You guys got exposed something most sensible padres understood, seeing as just making playoffs was a huge accomplishment.
Padres are top 10 in spending only 15 mill less in 2020. So that logic is not valid.
Most dodgers fans are hard working Latinos that have been a part of the community for 3/4 generations. You clearly have never been to a dodger game to know this!
If Padres’ fans don’t want Dodgers’ fans at their games, they should buy the tickets. Besides, good food at the Randy Jones stand.
Take away the Dodgers top 2 pitchers and it’s May, Gonsolin, and Urías. If any team could weather that kind of bad luck, it’s the Dodgers.
1. Once you call a team Bums, no one cares about your opinions
2. Complaining that dodger fans supported the San Diego community because your city didn’t care about the team for the last 20 years… we are bad for that?? How dare they eat, and buy tickets, and go to a bar and stay a restaurant. Maybe hit an amusement park before the game
Sam Diego doesn’t need their money!!
Oh wait. Yeah they do. Have you seen downtown San Diego?? Eesh. It’s like LA in the 90s
Care for your city and maybe we don’t have to. For now though. The dodgers enjoy having 90 home games
The Dodgers don’t have the second highest payroll. Yankees #1, Astros #2. Dodgers #3. Dodgers have a good traveling fan group called Pantone 294. They go to Petco in large numbers because San Diego is close to L.A. and there usually aren’t enough Padres’ fans to fill the stadium. Helping the local economy. Best reasons for Padres’ fans to support the Dodgers is that they’re from the West Coast, and every year is a battle to fight East Coast bias.
@gregn213 Nope ask a majority of Padres fans who they are rooting for and it’s the Braves hands down.
“The Muncy led Dodgers”? You haven’t been paying attention at all this season if you think Max Muncy is leading the team.
They’ve got two players named Mookie Betts and Justin Turner, the heart and soul of this team, doing. Also Kershaw, who’s work ethic is highly revered, is the longest tenured. So “No,” it’s not a Dodger team led by Max Muncy, especially with a down year for him.
News flash: We don’t care.
You gave the Braves no chance in this game.
Having a limited role player like Gore on the roster is hard to do with no days off.
How so? If they had 25 spots and the other teams 28, they would still have the deepest roster.
Uh, what? Deepest roster, what are you talking about?
No days off means you need more pitchers, which means you can’t afford to keep a guy like Gore, whose only role is to be a late inning pinch runner.
Gore isn’t on the roster. He and Lux were dropped for this round. The Dodgers have 15 pitchers, including five legitimate starters and six lefthanders. Who else has that kind of depth? You realize they led MLB in ERA, right?
Dude, what are you talking about. Jesus, you Dodger fans are getting really defensive about everything. You’re acting like I’m talking trash about the Dodgers depth and saying it isn’t good. I don’t understand what you don’t get about my post.
Lux was dropped in favor of the now healthy Rios. Gore was dropped because it’s now a 7 game series, not 5, and there’s no days off, hence the need for an extra pitcher and not being afforded the luxury of having someone on the roster whose role is only to be a late inning pinch runner. My comment was about Gore being removed from the roster in favor of the needed pitching depth for the longer series with no days off.
Do you understand? Is anyone else confused by this?
And the don’t have Gore, so why did you even bring him up. Your words:
Read what I wrote again and take a half second to think about what it means:
“Having a limited role player like Gore on the roster is hard to do with no days off.”
My point was, and it was an incredibly simple point, that you can’t have a player like Gore on the roster when there isn’t any days off and you need the extra pitching depth.
I’m confused by your gross generalization. Just for the record.
Mindless, Commonsense, and now Cey are all snapping at posters if they disagree with them about anything Dodger related.
I wasn’t even commenting on the Dodgers depth or anything like that, just making a general statement about how the lack of off days is affecting roster decisions.
He obviously thought I was taking some shot at the Dodgers and didn’t even both to grasp what the point of my post was.
Did you have trouble understanding what my post was about?
Woah woah woah
I snapped at people who are telling me what I can or cannot do on a freakin free message board. Like….. you. Should I quote you being an ass?
Or All 3 posters within 24 hours telling me what I can or cannot write?
Geez
Briffle beginning to think you are a Common troll. The condemning and condescending tone towards almost every poster you encounter on here is outstanding. Then constantly playing victim as if you did nothing wrong when you blatantly talk down on someone else’s team. Just stick to Braves talk on Braves posts, you know little on the wide scope of baseball.
Keep exaggerating more about me telling you how to post. How about you quote me where I explicitly told you how to post on here? It’s in your own mind.
You guys need to be able to handle people disagreeing with you without you having little baby hissy fits every time someone doesn’t share your exact Dodger viewpoint.
Imindless you showed your scope, or lack thereof, on baseball yesterday. If I were you, I wouldn’t join the discussion until you start making some somewhat intelligent posts.
It’s not my fault that Cey didn’t understand my simple one sentence post.
On that note, Commonsense, I want to apologize for going after you the other day. I was out of line.
You seem to be misinformed because the stats I presented don’t fit your false narrative much like general media. You consistently look past actual hard data to support your biased opinions. Run differential which is best way of predicting top teams because it takes both pitching and hitting into account.
Again Braves have 3 players to worry about (Accuna,Freeman, ozuna) which makes the overall team stats look better than they actually are. You lumping 3 players who well outperformed who they typically are in there career is your main argument for why the Braves will win. Historically freeman and Accuna to a lesser degree are the only consistent hitter you have on your team. Same arguement I had with padres fans and you who you said that was a 5 game series based off this seaso
Your argument was then that dodgers played no one this year and I showed you last years stats against everyone seeing as we have the same exact squad minus maeda, and ryu and adding betts. You seem to not understand the context that dodgers have been a top team for years. You think that one small sample size season is the hall mark for making an unbiased prediction. Again stick to Braves talk that seems to be the only thing you watch or have knowledge on.
You think I can’t handle people disagreeing? Lol ok Briffle
You know what I took exception to. I’m not obligated to do anything here. Idc what you want or how many threads you come at me
Thank you Bham. There’s plenty of room for a real baseball discussion here and that’s why I post.
I’m not perfect so if I went over the line toward you, I apologize as well. Playoffs get tense. We all see this. Lol
At this point I’m not replying to another message from you, imindless. At least with other posters they don’t lie or completely make things up when trying to argue.
Yesterday you said that Freeman was the only Brave to worry about and everyone else was average, and now you’re saying there’s three Braves to worry about. Yesterday I pointed out that statistically, the Braves offense was just as good or better than the Dodgers offense this season. Then you randomly brought up run difference from last season.
I never made any argument that the Braves were the better team than the Dodgers, I only argued that the Braves offense has just been as good as the Dodgers this season. Run difference isn’t a measure for how good an offense is because it can be negatively affected by poor pitching, just like with the Braves starters this season. Using run difference,epscially run difference from last season, to say that the Dodgers offense is better (which is what you did yesterday) is moronic.
You completely ignored everything I said yesterday with the data I brought up and now you’re saying I don’t use hard data? Laughable.
You are the one that said the Braves didn’t play anyone and pointed to the Braves playing the Red’s and the Marlins. The Dodgers played the worst team to make the playoffs and then, in your own words, a team that wouldn’t be good enough to make the playoffs in a regular season. So don’t talk about the Braves not playing anyone.
I said the only consistent hitter the Braves have is Freeman. You seem to not understand using a career stats is really the only way to predict how a player will perform. Using past stats help to paint a picture of who player are and potentially will be. Consistently producing numbers in line with career norms proves and validates something or someone being good to great. Same way you argue that simmons won’t be a hall of famer basing your opinions on past seasons successes or failures as a way to validate your argument.
Again your argument was that the dodgers played no one THIS year so I provided data disputing that by showing you last years stats that provide a better understanding of who the dodgers are, in addition to THIS years data. They have largely the same team and have been a top team both offensively and pitching wise. You seem to not understand this. You only use flawed data that truly does not quantify the big picture. Using team stats to highlight an offense is the poorest excuse to support a claim take away freeman, acuna, ozuna and what do you have? Take away betts, bellinger, and turner and dodgers are still good. Get it? You also like to look past data because it doesn’t support you.
Both depict the dodgers by far being the better team. Using the reds and marlins 2 of the worst offenses to support your argument are laughable. You stated yesterday that Braves have pitched well in playoffs against 2 bad teams and that validates Braves mediocrity from that side of the ball?
One guy replying to your comment about Gore doesn’t mean that he represents “you Dodgers’ fans.”
@imindless according to your assertions about the Padres you concur that the Dodgers played ‘no one’ this year.
Being that you consider the Padres a truly inferior opponent, the Braves should present quite a challenge to the Dodgers and the Dodgers must elevate their play considerably.
I’d be concerned if I were you @imindless. The Braves aren’t the Padres.
They have a formidable offense, good rotation and pen and the Dodgers have been playing the “hapless” NL West.
Someone mentions a player who appeared in exactly two games as a pinch runner and it turns into a Monty Python skit.
The Black Knight sketch comes to mind.
Alex Wood could have a huge opp here to provide some quality inns- We re deep enough to keep him on a tight rope but if he excels that length could really be a boon with 7 games in 7 days- Braves dont really have a guy like that, like the add
* Id like to see more trades like the Brusdar Maeda trade- Helped both teams out tremendously this year- MLB ready talent for Mlb ready talent…. seems all we get these days is pay dump for prospects – Big series for Trienan/ Brusdar
I can only hope they don’t ever have to call on Wood. I’ll be shoving my head under a pillow if they do.
7 games 7 days theres a profitable contribution or 2 in the wings – Playoffs are all about these types of contributions- He actually looked good late Sept –
Yea Tomlin would be the comp but honestly I dont think Tomlin has a good matchup here but could certainly be wrong –
I like both these bullpens when things are running even keel but theres gonna be a game or two where guys like Wood/Tomlin could help swing a victory either way- Both have capable offences to come back from an early deficit, the swing inns 4-6 always so vital in these games…Kinda more so than 7-9 which typically hold leads this late in the playoffs
We have Josh Tomlin. It’s not the same but it’s close lol
How can Rios miss the ALDS when the Dodgers have been in the National League since 1890?
Well, since he’s in the NL, it’s a given that he missed the ALDS, just like all of the other Dodgers.
That is technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Let’s go!
I really hope the dodgers can win the whole thing this year. It would make dodger fans happy for the first time in a while.
I’m very pleased to see Rios replace Gore. Alex wood was hit around consistently after he returned. I would have preferred Scott Alexander over Wood
Why does every oddsmaker have the Dodgers as the favorite to win the World Series?
They’re clearly the best team on paper and in performance thus far. The best teams don’t always win though :).
Because they won 106 games last year and added Mookie Betts. Because they were the favourite before the season (for the reason above) and then went 43-17. Because they scored the most runs and had the lowest staff ERA.
But most importantly, because the oddsmakers believe the public believes they’re the favourites. Odds and game lines are set to get the action the oddsmakers want, based on public perception. If Vegas says the Cowboys are touchdown favourites this weekend, it’s not because they believe the Cowboys are going to win by a touchdown. It’s about producing the right action via money from bettors, not predicting scores.
GO BRAVES!
Braves 5-1. Beats all chat
I think the Braves had the most runs scored in the 7th inning or later this year. They love to punish bullpens.