Dodgers

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

That's a lot of money for the Halos to spend on one guy,but they probably need him the most.Dodgers can't afford anymore bad signings.The very 1st thing the Dodgers need to do is to get Kent to retire.Just go take a motorcycle apart,and get lost.No way we can have that cancer around anymore.We don't have the talent to overcome that kind of bad chemistry that he brings to teams.What would the Mets do with the 3rd baseman they got?

Wright said that he would move to first base if he had to. I still can't believe that he won a gold glove, he make a lot of tough plays. But it seems that he makes a lot of errors on the routine ones. The move that they would probably make is moving Reyes to second. Hell if they could move him to second for Kaz Matzui (who was absolutley awful during his time at shea) then they could move him for the best player in the game.
As far as Jeff Kent goes, you are spot on about him being a cancer in the locker room. I vaguely remember a story about him when he was with the Mets. It was on of those late season pranks. I do not remeber if it was the whole team or not? But it involved someone on the team taking his street clothes and replacing it with a dress. I know the Yanks haze the rookies that way on the last road trip every year. But Kent went nuts, he even went to the media with it. You could see right there that this wasn't a big TEAM guy.
I was just looking at the Dodgers stats and you are right they need a huge infusion of offense. When 20 HR's and 87 Rbi's are the top offensive numbers for a team, your pitching better be tremendous (see D'Backs). Obviously getting nothing out of Schmidt was huge, Loiaza is a retread and Wells should hang em up. Penny was very good and I personally like Wolf (he always pitched well when I saw him). I personally have never like Derek Lowe. I think he pitched his best during the biggest tittle run in the history of baseball (2004 Red Sox). He was tremendous when the whole world was watching and then he cashed in for it. I think he is a mutt. Saito seems solid, I like Proctor, but the rest of the pen seems suspect (Proctor included).
It does seem that they have youth on there side. Gonzalez won't be back, maybe they can get Jose Guillen (although he does fit in that Milton Bradley category). Maybe trade Nomar for an arm, sign a guy like Jeff Cirillo for a year or two. The offense needs to be upgraded, it seems like they have a few arms (if they can stay healthy). I am guessing that the Rockies are the favorites for the west next year. I do not think the D'backs can do it again the way that they did it last year (winning 2-0 every game). The Giants stink and I do not know what the problem with the Padres are (I thought they were the best team in the west). 90 wins got 2 teams from the west into the playoffs, can the Dodgers with the right moves make up the 8 that they lost by?