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In case you missed it: Dodgers make a trade
By Jon Weisman
Today, the Dodgers acquired a Rule 4 competitive balance round B draft pick (No. 74 overall this June), right-handed reliever Ryan Webb and minor league catcher Brian Ward from the Orioles in exchange for catcher Chris O’Brien and pitcher Ben Rowen.
Ken Gurnick of MLB.com has more on the deal. The 29-year-old Webb had a 2.95 FIP with Baltimore last year and 37 strikeouts in 49 1/3 innings against 63 baserunners. Ward had a .641 OPS in a season spent mostly at Triple-A Norfolk.
And now, to fill the rest of your off day, more notes …
The good, the bad and the unusual in a 7-5 loss
By Jon Weisman
There was plenty of action in today’s 7-5 Dodger loss to the Cubs, but the marquee attraction in the “Have You Seen This Before?” Department was … no, not Sergio Santos’ four-strikeout inning, but the fact that he had a 1-3 strikeout on a pitch that caromed back to him before he threw the batter/runner out at first.
Through the eyes of the prospects
By Matthew Mesa
Take a glimpse into this year’s Winter Development Program through the social media accounts of the Dodger minor leaguers that attended.
Arrivals:
10:30 in the AM and of course there is that good ole LA traffic
— Darnell Sweeney (@_SweeneySwag) January 12, 2015
Arruebarrena, Seager, Urias among 17 non-roster Spring Training invitees
Steve Saenz/Rancho Cucamonga Quakes
By Jon Weisman
The Dodgers announced that they have invited 17 non-roster players to Spring Training in 2015, including infielder Erisbel Arruebarrena, who has cleared waivers and been outrighted to Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Here’s the list:
Double-A Chattanooga moves on to Southern League championship series
By Cary Osborne
Midseason, the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts were the worst team, record-wise, in the Southern League.
Now they are playing for the league’s championship.
The Lookouts defeated the Huntsville Stars (Milwaukee’s affiliate) 7-6 on Monday in the deciding Game 5 of the North Division championship series.
Catcher Chris O’Brien (2011 18th-rounder) and first baseman O’Koyea Dickson (2011 12th-rounder) each homered in Games 1 and 5 in the series (both Chattanooga wins) and Daniel Coloumbe (2012 25th-rounder) saved all three of the Lookouts’ one-run victories.
The Lookouts start a best-of-five series with the Jacksonville Suns (Miami affiliate) on Wednesday in Chattanooga. Jacksonville was 22 games better than the Lookouts during the regular season and has won 14 of its last 15 games.
Chattanooga finished the first half of the season at 26-44, but won the North Division in the second half with a 35-33 mark.
On Saturday, the Rookie League Ogden Raptors were eliminated in the first round of the Pioneer League playoffs. Dodgers 2014 first-rounder Grant Holmes was touched up for six runs in the second inning in a 7-4 loss to Orem (Angels affiliate).
That makes the Lookouts the last Dodger minor league team standing.
Photo: Tim Evearitt
Dodger minor league report: Week 22 (part one) — Playoffs, honors and the incredible Julio Urias
By Cary Osborne
Chattanooga is postseason bound and will begin the Southern League playoffs on Thursday. What a turnaround for a team that was the worst in the Southern League in the season’s first half.
With the regular season wrapped, honors are starting to roll in. Baseball America named its 2014 Minor League All-Star Team and top prospects Corey Seager and Joc Pederson were chosen. Seager hit .349/.402/.602 with 50 doubles and 20 home runs between Single-A Rancho Cucamonga and Double-A Chattanooga this season. We’ll get into Pederson’s numbers in the Albuquerque section. We’ll do the same for Baseball America second-teamer Scott Schebler as well in the Chattanooga section. Continue reading
March 4 pregame: Ten reassigned from Major League camp
Yasiel Puig, RF
Carl Crawford, LF
Hanley Ramirez, DH
Andre Ethier, CF
A.J. Ellis, C
Juan Uribe, 3B
Clint Robinson, 1B
Justin Turner, SS
Chone Figgins, 2B
(Brian Wilson, P)
By Jon Weisman
The first round of springtime reassignments took place this morning. Pedro Baez, Nick Buss, Stephen Fife, Yimi Garcia and Jarret Martin were optioned to minor-league camp, while Sam Demel, Griff Erickson, Daniel Moskos, Chris O’Brien and Chris Reed were reassigned to minor-league camp.
It all amounts to the same thing; the difference has to do with being on the 40-man roster vs. being a non-roster invitee.
As previously announced, today is a bullpen day while the Australia unbound Zack Greinke gets his calf back on track. Scheduled to follow Brian Wilson are Kenley Jansen, J.P. Howell, Chris Perez, Jamey Wright and Chris Withrow.
Carl Crawford returns to the defensive end of things today, in left field.
Item from the Dodger press notes: “Scott Van Slyke’s father, Andy, will be in uniform for Seattle this afternoon as he enters his first season as the Mariners’ first base coach.”
And in other news this morning, Ted Lilly, who threw his last Major League pitch for the Dodgers on June 4, has been hired by the Cubs as a special assistant in the front office, writes Carrie Muskat of MLB.com.
Dodger prospect quartet favors Florida State in BCS title tilt
By Cary Osborne
It is ritual that one of the activities of the Dodger Winter Development Camp is a team outing to a restaurant to watch the BCS National Championship Game. The 15 campers at the 2014 WDC will be doing that tonight. Based on those who responded, the players are largely in favor of Florida State in Monday night’s game with a familiar Dodger number attached to that — 42.
Catchers Pratt Maynard, who went to Florida State’s Atlantic Coast Conference rival North Carolina State and played baseball with current Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, and Chris O’Brien took the Seminoles over the Auburn Tigers. So did outfielders Joc Pederson (“There’s no defense in the SEC and, that’s my guy,” Pederson said.) and Scott Schebler.
Others didn’t have a take. But here’s how the quartet see it:
Maynard: Florida State 42, Auburn 7
O’Brien: Florida State 42, Auburn 21
Pederson: Florida State 35, Auburn 28
Schebler: Florida State 42, Auburn 14
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