A Fracture for Billingsley’s Leg (and Psyche)
Ouch. Chad Billingsley slipped on an icy step on Saturday, fracturing his fibula. Bills is supposed to be good to go by Spring Training. I’m actually a little more worried about how he handles this mentally. Chad’s a big guy at 6′ 10″ and he uses that left leg to push off during his throwing motion. He’ll need complete confidence to get by this, as well as his performance in the playoffs. Hard to believe Billingsley is the veteran of this Dodgers rotation…
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Manny Offer Is In; Penny Gone
Filed under: Andre Ethier, Brad Penny, Dodger Trade Rumors, Manny Ramirez, Ned Colletti, Trade Rumors, dodgers pitching, pitching
So Ned reportedly made a play for Manny, but it surely is a two-year deal for $55 million. A nice move, but does anyone seriously think Manny is going to take that? Not with Boras as his agent! Good thing the Dodgers cleared some salary by buying out Penny’s contract for $2 million (not a pretty penny! sorry, couldn’t help myself…) as they’ll need that for either Ramirez or Sabathia.
On a related note, Blue Notes had an interesting post relating to comments from Steve Henson at Yahoo! Sports on the Padres’ asking price for Jake Peavy:
The Dodgers would be long shots because the Padres are loathe to help their intra-divisional neighbors to the north. It would take Clayton Kershaw or Jonathan Broxton, plus DeWitt and Ethier, just to pique the Padres’ interest.
JUST TO PIQUE THEIR INTEREST!!! Whatever…could you seriously imagine playing the Pad’s and seeing Kershaw on the mound with DeWitt and Eithier behind him? Unbelievable.