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Dodgers?
Los Angeles Dodgers
54-63 15.5 games back of COL, 10.5 back of SF (3rd Place)
C David Ross .233 8 28
1B Bucky Bowie (R) .269 18 60 (21 y/o)
2B Brandon Phillips .285 3 16 (5th Season, 24 y/o)
2B Benji Gil .236 5 20
3B Chris Sawyer (R) .260 13 37 (24 y/o)
SS Orlando Cabrera .293 10 67
SS Jack Wilson .266 2 18 (199 AB)
SS Alex Cora .378 2 3 (70 AB)
LF Dee Brown .287 0 13 (150 AB)
CF Peter Bergeron .264 7 37
CF Doug Glanville .278 0 2 (54 AB)
RF Shawn Green .336 25 68
RF Ricky Ledee .403 2 11 (62 AB)
Rotation
LHP Odalis Perez 8 8 4.02
RHP Kevin Brown 7 3 3.29 (41 y/o)
RHP Hideo Nomo 5 12 3.90 (37 y/o)
LHP Kazuhisa Ishii 5 8 5.80
RHP John Thomson 5 7 3.60
Bullpen
LR (L) Kevin Davenport 1 2 4.38 (2nd Season, 20 y/o)
LR (L) Tony Ritchie 1 1 2.95 (2nd Season, 25 y/o)
LR (R) Jack Murray 2 0 3.24 (3rd Season, 21 y/o)
MR (R) Ernie Malay (R) 3 2 3.93 1sv (22 y/o)
MR (R) Craig Voyles 5 6 3.58 4sv (2nd Season, 21 y/o)
SU (R) Paul Shuey 4 3 3.68 1sv
CL (R) Eric Gagne 8 12 3.92 25sv
While having possibly the youngest bullpen in baseball, they might just have the best, as well.
Obviously the strength of this team, the bullpen has been developed by hard work and scouting in the draft. If the team could just have the same success with the rest of the team, we might have ourselves a contender.
As they stand now, the Dodgers are a mix of young talent and old, used-to-be talent. While there are still some good players held over (Helloooooo Shawn Green--reigning MVP), there's too much old money on the team (Starting Rotation).
I believe this team is a couple of years away. But a few moves here and there could speed that process up, considerably.
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