Well if this isn’t just too cute I don’t even know what is. Something about Ryu brings out the best in people, be they K-Pop stars or little kids named Deuce.
This kid has quite an arm, I’m sure this clip will play well in his 2028 NL Rookie of the Year video montage.
Hat tip to Joe of Bleed Blue Crew
Ed. Note: MORE LIKE LOST ANGELES, AMIRITE? Poor Riley.
The Week That Was
LAA
WHAT : 3-4
LAD
THE HELL? : 2-4
If you are a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Angels, or Los Angeles Dodgers, holding onto belief that your team still has time to make an impact in the playoff races, you don’t care much for projection systems and playoff odds. Cold arithmetic isn’t going to heal your wounded heart, nor will it temper your excitement should your chosen franchise string together a few wins, infusing said heart with valuable hope.
If you aren’t a fan of one of those teams, you can look at Fangraphs new projected standings/depth charts feature and laugh until your sides hurt. Because, according to “the numbers”, it’s all over but the crying.
The Week That Was
LAA
Please click on this whilst reading what follows: 2-4
LAD
Please click on this whilst reading what follows: 1-5
Southern California’s Burgeoning Pissing Contest: The Leader In The Clubhouse
Nobody? Successful small market teams like the A’s, Rays and Braves? Entropy?
God, this is depressing.
I’m instituting a bit of a change in protocol here, as I feel that it might be wiser to look at what the two teams have done since we last spoke, rather than posting the overall records that I’ve been redundantly typing into the “AL & NL West Standing Update” section below. Like I said when we started this epic journey, we’ll hone this thing as we go.
LAA
We have a $142.1MM payroll and whoa, hey … this isn’t what we paid for: 2-5
LAD
Luis Cruz! Justin Sellers! Nick Punto! Juan Uribe! Skip Schumaker!: 4-3
The Dodgers big money experiment for 2013 isn’t off to the best start. Zack Greinke is on the shelf after a violent collision with a passive-aggressive refrigerator, Chad Billingsley learned pitching with a jacked-up elbow doesn’t really work and the rest of the starting rotation caught the plague over the last two weeks.
Matt Kemp couldn’t hit for three weeks and Hanley Ramirez got hurt during the World Baseball Classic. The Dodgers starting shortstop is yet to play in 2013. Until now, as the Dodgers activated Ramriez from the disabled list mere hours before tonight’s game as Clayton Kershaw was placed on the bereavement list.
The baseball gods are unkind to the Los Angeles Dodgers, so it seems. Chad Billingsley is scheduled to undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow tomorrow.
Chad Billingsley will undergo Tommy John surgery tomorrow, April 24. Recovery time is expected to be 12 months.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 23, 2013
Billingsley joins Zack Greinke and Chris Capuano on the Dodgers’ list of hurlers currently injured. The decision to allow Billingsley to try and pitch with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament is a particularly confounding one, given that the team was aware of the risks as far back as January. I wrote about Billingsley’s plan to pitch through the injury on January 30th, when an actual medical doctor said it’s all well and good to try and rehab such an injury so as long as you’re not a Major League Baseball pitcher.
You live and learn, I guess.
Billingsley was 1-0 in two starts, with a 3.00 ERA and six strikeouts in 12 innings this season.
