Jeff Kent

The coddling of Jeff Kent, Andruw, Nomar, Pierre and Sweeney is what the Dodgers should be doing for their younger guys, but absolutely refuse to. I know Torre has been known for being more of a Veterans coach, but at least on the Yankees, his veterans were actually good. If Andruw was on any other team, and was a younger fella, he would have been sent down faster than a hooker in Vietnam. So many of the veteran players who are actually having better seasons than Andruw have been DFA’d released or platooned. At least the Doyers are going the platoon/benching route. Progress, slow yes, but progress nonetheless.

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The Dodgers chock full off their season of mediocrity (wait, you mean the season is still going on?) passed on CC Sabathia. According to multiple sources (including Ken Rosenthal http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8328148/Notebook:-Will-Dodgers-ever-make-a-move??CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=3498) the ace pitcher could have been had for middling prospects that were not contributing at the major league level. Granted this is all here-say, but it is a rumor for a reason, and the big problem here was not Ned Colletti (for once). It seems as if frank McCourt vetoed the trade for strictly financial reasons as the Dodger payroll would have increased by $7-9 million this year with the addition of Sabathia, Jamey Carroll and Casey Blake had the trade gone through. I don’t even know where to start with this. This is the same moron who tosses $19 million to Andruw Jones, $16 million to Jason Schmitt, $9.5 million to Nomar Garciaparra and he is terrified of a trade that would increase payroll by $9 million? Granted he would have tried to sign CC to an extension and what not (and that would be about $25 million/year), but this is for the best pitcher in the game, not to mention a platoon player (who can play short) and a 3rd basemen. Everything the Dodgers wanted all in a package, and he vetoes it. It’s go to mean something when other teams won’t take on any of your high paid players because all of your high paid players are broken down and useless. So instead of moving towards a winning franchise, McCourt seems to love to meddle in mediocrity because we are dumb enough to keep going to games and to watch a bunch of turds in Dodger Blue “play baseball”. The best part of this trade was that we would keep ALL The high end prospects and could unload all the crappy players (Schmitt, Lowe, Nomar, Andruw, Kent) after next season and it would all be good. We are not a small market team, but apparently that is how the owner sees it. He is ready to try and turn Dodger stadium into a revenue service year round with his renovations and he is willing to increase prices to watch crap on the field but unwilling to make any moves of consequence to make the team actually look professional.

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or Jack Wilson, you better get Ian Snell and Jason Bay too, or Colletti should be forced to wrestle Jeff Kent’s moustache in the battle to the death. I also love how many sites are reporting that some of the players Colletti was going include in the Sabathia trade would need to be included in the Jack Wilson trade too, therefore we couldn’t get them both. Well great choice Ned, you mustached douche. Instead of pushing for the Ace pitcher that would anchor our staff for the next 7 years, you give up on that and go after a buck toothed shortstop that couldn’t power his way out of a leper colony.

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Five of the Dodgers’ eight hits went for extra bases, including hit a pair of Jeff Kent RBI doubles and a triple by Matt Kemp. Andre Ethier finished a triple shy of the cycle, recording his eighth homer. Luis Maza also executed a perfect suicide squeeze in the fourth inning to bring home Blake DeWitt, picking up the first RBI for a Dodger shortstop since… June 5.

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                Jeff Kent hit a solo homer in the 11th inning to give the Dodgers a 7-6, giving them their first win against the Astros this season and crawling back within 2½ of Arizona for first place in the NL West. Also coming up big was Chan-Ho Park, who continues to get it done despite having started the season in Triple-A in favor of, er, Esteban Loiaza. Park got out of a jam in the ninth and pitched a solid tenth for the win. Takashi Saito looked good in the bottom of the 11th, retiring the side in order for his 13th save.

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ancing at a box score: a walk by Andre Ethier in the first (erased on a double play) and singles by Jeff Kent in the second, Juan Pierre in the sixth and Delwyn Young in the ninth. The Dodgers then mounted a mini-rally in the ninth, but James Loney hit a weak grounder with the bases loaded to give Frankie Rodriguez his 32nd save.

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This was perhaps the first time that using a late-inning defensive replacement for Jeff Kent actually worked, and it proved valuable when the next batter, Howie Kendrick, smacked a double to Juan Pierre’s noodle arm in left field that might have scored Kotchman. However, after walking Mike Napoli, Saito fanned pinch-hitter Reggie Willits as a full Dodger Stadium erupted, cheering as their team got no-hit.

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I’ll avoid rehashing his points and add anything else I can to the conversation. 

Jeff Kent: The first Dodger to appear on the list, and the first Dodger to actually witness the big bang (this actually would have been Olmaedo Saenz, but the Dodgers let him go last year),

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Lakers played like the Dodgers, if the Dodgers were forced at gunpoint to play shuffleboard (where Jeff Kent would be the MVP). Considering that Matt Kemp was a star basketball player in high school, is it honestly too late to draft the guy? Because seriously, he would probably play better perimeter defense than ANY of the Lakers, who honestly call this their profession. I mean they get paid to play like this. PAID. MILLIONS. TO PLAY LIKE THIS.  

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It's been 20 frickin' years and we need some stars to go along with that youth so that Jeff Kent isn't our HR leader with 20 once again. If it's a money issue, we could've spent a lot of that Joe Torre money on a player who actually plays on the field. I'm all for hiring a big name, big salary manager, but you've got to have the team to go with him. The Lakers aren't going to pay Phil all that money if they don't have Kobe. Even small markets such as St. Louis and Cincinnati, have guys who can change the game with one swing. They just don't have any pitching. Let's keep our pitching intact and get a game breaker or two.

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of the lineup made enough noise, with Juan Pierre and Russell Martin each hitting an RBI double and Jeff Kent going 3-for-4. However, the Dodgers hit into inning-ending double plays in the fourth and eighth innings, limiting the Dodgers to a single run in each frame. They likely can’t get away with such play against other opponents, but against the Reds these mistakes didn’t come back to haunt the Dodgers, at least for tonight.

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They got run production from the bottom of the lineup, two meaningful homeruns from Jeff Kent, and a relatively raucous crowd urging them on after a slow start.  Yet for all the differences there was one haunting constant, the agony of defeat the Dodgers have come to know in the past two weeks, this time a crushing 5-4 defeat.

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 The Dodgers five highest paid position players are Andrew Jones, Jeff Kent, Rafael Furcal, Juan Pierre, and Nomar Garciaparra.  Furcal was having a great year before being sidelined with an injury and his return should spark the Dodgers some.  However Andrew Jones just went on the DL, but before going there he was batting .167 with 2 homeruns, not the type of power the Dodgers wanted from him.  Nomar has barely played the last couple years, and is chronically injured.  Kent is batting .234 with 4 homeruns, not what you want from your middle of the order bats.  Juan Pierre is doing what he normally does, but he is not the big bat the Dodgers need.  

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We're L.A.  This ain't Cleveland. This ain't Milwaukee. This ain't Arizona. 40 something Jeff Kent should not be our HR and RBI leader each year.  It's time, it's time to deal. And do

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of him.  When they did sign free agents, it was underachievers.  The Giants let Jeff Kent get away because he was getting in the way of Bonds.  Papers quoted the team as "Bonds and the 24 other players."  Since 2002, the Giants were never able to contend because they spent all their money on Bonds.  These are new days now.

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