The tough news out of Spring Training today was the latest with former Dodger minor league manager Luis Salazar, who had to have his eye surgically removed as he battles to recover from the line drive that hit him last week.
- Craig Calcaterra of Hardball Talk tries to pick the greatest living player for each MLB team. My thoughts immediately went to Sandy Koufax – anyone think differently?
- It's time for a Vin Scully billboard. And here it is, appropriately enough, at Vin Scully Is My Homeboy.
- Sons of Steve Garvey finds a Breakfast Club in ESPN.com writer Gene Wojciechowski's tour of the Giants clubhouse, as well as video of Diamond DeShields, Delino's daughter, dunking.
- Fangraphs has introduced Aggregate Defensive Ratings (ADR), a weighted composite of different defensive stats.
- It's just getting worse for Scott Podsednik. His left foot is in a cast, reports Gregor Chisolm of MLB.com.
- Don't forget to join the Dodger Thoughts March Madness Challenge. "Kershaw" is the password.
- See Lego Tyus Edney go the distance against Missouri.
- Farewell, Marty Marion.
ABOUT THIS BLOG
A native of Los Angeles, Jon Weisman has been writing about the Dodgers at Dodger Thoughts since 2002 and thinking deeply about them since the 1970s. He is the author of 100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, published in 2009. Weisman began covering sports professionally in 1985, complemented by adventures in writing for and about the screen that have culminated in his current position as a features editor at Variety. Any downtime he can muster will be happily spent with his wife and three young children.
TEAM LEADERS
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Chris Capuano
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| BA | M. Kemp | .359 | ||||||||||
| HR | M. Kemp | 12 | ||||||||||
| RBI | A. Ethier | 40 | ||||||||||
| R | M. Kemp | 29 | ||||||||||
| OPS | M. Kemp | 1.173 | ||||||||||
| ERA | C. Kershaw | 1.90 | ||||||||||
| SO | C. Kershaw | 51 | ||||||||||
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