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- The Dodgers re-signed Trent Oeltjen to a minor-league contract, reports Tony Jackson of ESPNLosAngeles.com (among other notes).
- Former Dodger manager Jim Tracy, now with Colorado, is recovering from a mild arrhythmia that caused him to collapse shortly after midnight Tuesday. The Associated Press has details.
- Clayton Kershaw is married! Check out the pictures at Vin Scully Is My Homeboy.
- More great news: Longtime friend of Dodger Thoughts Jay Jaffe has been voted into the Baseball Writers Association of America.
- This book, A Brief History of American Sports, was co-authored by Elliott J. Gorn, whom I took "Sport in American Life" from at Stanford when he was a visiting professor 21 years ago.
- I like these Dodgers-Fritos collectibles featuring Larry Sherry and Charley Neal, showcased by Blue Heaven.
- Who are the 50 best players not in the Hall of Fame? Baseball Past & Present offers a list, based on the vote of 63 people including Josh Wilker of Cardboard Gods.
- King Kaufman argues for the value of being average.
- Alex Belth of Bronx Banter has the best piece I've seen on Derek Jeter this offseason.
- Longtime Dodger Thoughts readers might recall how big a fan of Spalding Gray I've been. Stephen Soderbergh has a new documentary about the monologist/actor, writes David Ng at Culture Monster. LACMA will screen it Monday.
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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| OTHER LEADERS | ||||||||||||
| 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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