It’s hard to believe, but Juan Pierre’s sprained MCL was the first injury the speedy outfielder has received that’s caused him to land on the DL. Pierre has 35 steals, placing him second in the majors, one behind Willy Taveras. Replacing Juan (if that can be done) is Jason Repko who’s up from AAA. Repko’s [...]

Was out at Dodger Stadium this afternoon for a meeting and saw a little early batting practice going on.  Brad Penny of all people parked a few balls deep into the outfield seats.  Juan Pierre also took a little early practice in the cage and was working on his bunting.  Other early arrivals included youngsters [...]

Seriously, what’s it going to take for the Dodgers to see that this outfield by committee approach is not working? I totally get that competition breeds success, but in this case, the opposite is happening. Here’s my solution: 1.) START KEMP! 2.) Bench Jones for 2-3 games for some serious work on his swing. 3.) [...]

As reported in numerous media outlets, the Dodgers will try Chin-Lung Hu at third base as a possible short-term replacement for Nomar and Andy LaRoche.  I actually really like this move.  What I don’t want to see is the Dodgers trade for some aging third baseman and give up one of the kids in the [...]

A sign of things to come in the regular season?  Perhaps.  It’s hard to read anything into the tea leaves for the first Grapefruit League game of the year, but according to our pal Ken Gurnick over at MLB.com, “Torre has made no secret that he likes the speed of Pierre, the likely Opening Day [...]