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.
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- The future of Hong-Chih Kuo(1/29/2012 7:55 AM PT)
- Expanded playoffs could lower bar for Dodgers in 2012(1/28/2012 8:32 AM PT)
- Dodger ownership bidding moves forward(1/27/2012 8:26 PM PT)
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2011 NATIONAL LEAGUE WEST STANDINGS
| TEAM | W | L | GB | RS | RA |
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| Arizona | 94 | 68 | 0.0 | 731 | 662 |
| San Francisco | 86 | 76 | 8.0 | 570 | 578 |
| LA Dodgers | 82 | 79 | 11.5 | 644 | 612 |
| Colorado | 73 | 89 | 21.0 | 735 | 774 |
| San Diego | 71 | 91 | 23.0 | 593 | 611 |
TEAM LEADERS
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Matt Kemp
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| OTHER LEADERS | ||||||||||||
| HR | M. Kemp | 39 | ||||||||||
| RBI | M. Kemp | 126 | ||||||||||
| R | M. Kemp | 115 | ||||||||||
| OPS | M. Kemp | .986 | ||||||||||
| W | C. Kershaw | 21 | ||||||||||
| ERA | C. Kershaw | 2.28 | ||||||||||
| SO | C. Kershaw | 248 | ||||||||||
CURRENT ROSTER/ESTIMATED 2010 SALARIES
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Updated December 15
Starting pitchers (5)
$8,000,000 Hiroki Kuroda
$7,500,000 Ted Lily
$6,000,000 Chad Billingsley
*$500,000 Clayton Kershaw
*$3,500,000 Jon Garland
*$25,500,000 Total
Bullpen (7)
$2,000,000 Hong-Chih Kuo
$7,000,000 Jonathan Broxton
$2,000,000 Vicente Padilla
$420,000 Blake Hawksworth
*$415,000 Ronald Belisario
*$405,000 Kenley Jansen
$405,000 Scott Elbert
*$12,645,000 Total
Other pitchers on 40-man roster (8)
John Ely
Javy Guerra
Brent Leach
Carlos Monasterios
Travis Schlichting
Ramon Troncoso
Luis Vasquez
Travis Schlichting
Starting lineup (8)
$12,000,000 Rafael Furcal
$9,250,000 Andre Ethier
$6,950,000 Matt Kemp
$5,250,000 Casey Blake
$5,000,000 Juan Uribe
$4,500,000 James Loney
$3,250,000 Rod Barajas
$405,000 Xavier Paul
*$46,605,000 Total
Bench (5)
$2,500,000 Jamey Carroll
$1,000,000 Dioner Navarro
$675,000 Tony Gwynn Jr.
$650,000 Jay Gibbons
$402,500 Chin-Lung Hu
*$5,227,500 Total
Other players on 40-man roster (6)
Ivan DeJesus Jr.
A.J. Ellis
Hector Gimenez
Jamie Hoffmann
John Lindsey
Russ Mitchell
Trayvon Robinson
Also paying
$7,700,000 Manny Ramirez
$3,500,000 Juan Pierre
$3,375,000 Andruw Jones
$1,500,000 Jason Schmidt
$1,000,000 Vicente Padilla
$150,000 Brad Ausmus
$125,000 Octavio Dotel
*$17,350,000 Total
*$107,327,500 Grand Total
*estimate
DODGER SITES
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6-4-2
Dodger Blues
Inside the Dodgers (Dodgers.com)
Inside the Dodgers
Press-Enterprise Dodger blog
True Blue L.A.
Sons of Steve Garvey
Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness
Dodger Hits
DodgerDugout.com
The Big Blue Wrecking Crew
Baseball Savvy
Dodger Sims
Blue Notes
The Peanut Gallery
Robots Took My Medicine
The Trolley Dodger
Dodgerama
Blue Heaven
Memories of Kevin Malone
Vin Scully Is My Homeboy
Dodgerfan.net
DailyDodgers.com
LA Dodger Talk
Sports Overdose
LA Sports Central
Dodgers FYI
Dodgers Diaries
DODGER RESOURCES
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Los Angeles Times coverage
Latest news headlines (via Google)
Dodger News on MLB.com
Los Angeles Daily News Coverage
Riverside Press Enterprise Coverage
Dodgers at SI.com
Dodgers Clubhouse on ESPN.com
2009 Dodger Statistics (ESPN.com)
2009 Dodgers at Baseball-Reference.com
Dodgers at Baseball Prospectus
Dodger Minor League Stats (BA)
Walter O'Malley - The Official Website
2010 Dodger Schedule
Think Blue
Dodger Profiles
LINKS
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Non-Partisan Baseball Sites
Cardboard Gods
Baseball Analysts
Baseball Prospectus.com
Baseball Think Factory
The Hardball Times
Baseball Musings
The Futility Infielder
Baseball America
Minorleagueball.com
Doug's Business of Baseball Weblog (In Memoriam)
Boy of Summer
Fun With Win Shares
Management by Baseball
MinorLeagueBaseball.com
Baseblogging
MLB Rumors
Clip Blast
The Book Blog
Baseball Nooz
Fifth Outfielder
Tim Brown
The Biz of Baseball
Fire Joe Morgan
Joe Posnanski
Baseball Reflections
Super Baseball Fan
Seeds on the Dugout Floor
At Home Plate
Baseball Tribune
Baseball Beginnings
Partisan Baseball Sites
Alex Belth's Bronx Banter
Aaron's Baseball Blog
U.S.S. Mariner
SethSpeaks.Net
Ducksnorts
AZ Snake Pit
Replacement Level Yankees Weblog
Athletics Nation
Only Baseball Matters
Dominican Players
A Citizen's Blog for the Philadelphia Phillies
Bucs Dugout
View from the Bleachers
Red Reporter
Phillies Nation
Philliesflow
A Hundred Next Years
DRays Bay
The San Francisco Giants Blog
Capitol Punishment
Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke?
McCovey Chronicles
Curt Schilling's 38 Pitches
Mets Merized
Three Days of Cryin'
Baseball, Among Other Things
The Fabulous Forum
Real Sports Heroes with Ross Porter
Baseball Crank
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
The Sports Economist
Deadspin
Molly Knight
Farther Off the Wall with Tom Hoffarth
FanBunker
Dave's LOCKS of the Week
Best Sports Writing
Invaluable Resources
Retrosheet
Baseball-Reference.com
The Baseball Cube
Less Dodgers, More L.A.
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L.A. Observed
Blogging.LA
LAist
Defamer
Forum Blue and Gold
Dad Gone Mad
Franklin Avenue
By Ken Levine
L.A. Story
Unframed (LACMA)
Ask Greg (about Gargoyles)
Big Western Flavor (not L.A., but it's entertainment)
OTHER WRITING BY JON
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The Best of Dodger Thoughts
SI.com archive
Variety archive
A Season in Savannah (Stanford Magazine)
Rick Monday (Baseball Analysts)
Baseball's Odd Couple (Baseball Prospectus)
Five Questions: Los Angeles Dodgers (2005)
Five Questions: Los Angeles Dodgers (2006)
Five Questions: Los Angeles Dodgers (2007)
Five Questions: Los Angeles Dodgers (2008) (Hardball Times)
Internet Movie Database Credits
2010 SEASON
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Dodgers at home: 45-36 (.556)
When Jon attended: 7-7* (.500)
When Jon didn't: 38-29 (.567)
1991-2010
Dodgers at home: 893-703 (.560)
When Jon attended: 318-255 (.555)*
When Jon didn't: 580-456 (.560)
* includes road games attended




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