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I am a junior at Columbia University in New York, majoring in American History, who loves to debate any sports topic in a bar, paper, or anywhere else.

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I am currently a junior at Columbia University in New York. While I have been immersed in New York, I have realized how much I hate the Yankees and Mets, and am willing to debate that both, particularly the Yankees, have found a way to ruin the sacred game of baseball. This hatred has made my love for the Dodgers, and anti-Yankees and Mets teams, and made me steer a little bit from baseball. The steroid problem that has affected the sanctity of the game has also made me veer a tad from baseball. While it is rampant in other sports, baseball has had the most difficulty in handling it.

Being at Columbia has been difficult for a sports nerd like me, having few people to discuss, argue and debate about such important topics like who was the best left-handed pitcher of all-time? (Sandy Koufax). Or the more underrated center-fielder of all time? (Duke Snider) While it has shifted my focus from sports to history, I continue my research for personal pleasure, and possible books that I hope to write when I am finished with my work at Columbia.

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Prospects posted on 01/31/2008

Browsing ESPN.com, and Keith Law has a great article on the top-100 prospects throughout Major League organizations. The Dodgers have four players amongst those 100 (LHP Clayton Kershaw, 3B Andy LaRoche, SS Ching-Lu Hu, and RHP James McDonald). While these players are all different ages, it appears each will provide the Dodgers with a much-needed influx of more youth into the Major League organization. Here is a little bit about the top two players, Kershaw and LaRoche.

Kershaw (Law rank: 6): Despite only being 20-years old, Kershaw looks to be the next great Dodger pitcher. While the club has been rather conservative with his pitching thus far (to prevent an injury, like what happened to Scott Elbert), he looks to be the kind of pitcher to form a solid staff with Chad Billingsley. Last season, Clayton went 1-2 with a 3.65 ERA in double-A Jacksonville, while going 7-5 with a 2.77 with the Gulf Coast League. In both of those systems, he had 2.43-1 K/BB ratio, which is quite solid. It may take him some time to get to the big leagues, but when he gets there, it should be quite something.

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