Per a tweet from the Dodgers official Twitter account. Dylan Hernandez says the deal is worth $850,000 in 2012 and $1.15M in 2013. Fangraphs seems to think this isn't such a horrible idea, valuing his 2011 contributions at $5.2M.
Via Dodgers Rumors
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December 14, 2011
Dylan Hernandez has a couple of updates for us this evening. Hernandez says that the Dodgers are done shopping for position players and are now looking to fix up the bullpen, brace yourselves folks. Colletti is still working on putting Mike MacDougal back in the Dodgers 2012 bullpen. Yeah, yeah we have known this for weeks. It's inevitable, I am actually not sure why it's...
Via Dodgers Rumors
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December 11, 2011
It never fails, I take a couple days off and rumors start swirling. So the non-tender deadline is tomorrow, Ned Colletti and his front office has some tough decisions to make as they decide whether to tender contracts to James Loney, Hong-Chih Kuo, Tony Gwynn Jr., and a couple all-stars, there are some rumors that we need to dig into.
Jon Weisman is reporting that the Dodgers...
Via Sons of Steve Garvey
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December 13, 2011
Dodgers pitcher Ted Lilly also thinks Matt Kemp should be awarded the NL MVP title--however to be fair, Lilly thought that all along:
LOS ANGELES -- Even before headlines of Ryan Braun's alleged positive drug test, Dodgers veteran pitcher Ted Lilly charged the Baseball Writers' Association of America with a big, fat error when it didn't name his teammate, Matt Kemp,...
Via AP on Fox
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December 13, 2011
The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. to a $2 million, two-year contract.
Gwynn appeared in a career-high 136 games at all three outfield positions with the Dodgers last season, his first with the club. The 29-year-old son of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn averaged 0.11 assists per nine innings to lead NL outfielders.
Gwynn Jr. batted .256 and had career highs...
Via Dodgers Locker
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December 13, 2011
The Dodgers have decided not to tender a contract for the 2012 season to 30-year old lefty reliever Hong-Chih Kuo, making him a free agent. Kuo was awful last year for the Dodgers. He pitched in 40 games (0 starts) for the Dodgers last year and he was 1-2 with a 9.00 ERA and a 1.74 WHIP. Kuo pitched in 218 games (14 starts) in his seven years with the Dodgers and he was 13-17...
Via Baseball Professor
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December 14, 2011
I have a lot of work to do today — compile offseason rankings, work on some Excel files, do some minor back-end site upkeep — so I don’t have much time for an intro. I’ve spent too much time rambling already!
Question 42 in our top 100 offseason questions asks us “Will Andre Ethier be the 30/100 player he was in 2009?”
Ethier is a talented hitter, but if he’s...
Via Feelin' Kinda Blue
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December 12, 2011
The Dodgers are apparently enamored with the Mets' Daniel Murphy, as the club tried to acquire him during the Winter Meetings, reported by Ken Gurnick of Dodgers.com.Gurnick also wrote the Dodgers still might make a run at him.Murphy, 26, put up a nice triple slash line last season -- .320/.362/.448 -- before suffering a season-ending left MCL tear in August. Murphy's short...
Via Rant Sports
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December 13, 2011
During the Winter Meetings last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers evidently came close to acquiring infielder Daniel Murphy in a trade with the New York Mets. According to Ken Gurnick of MLB.com, Los Angeles Dodgers’ GM Ned Colletti said the potential deal for Daniel Murphy fell through when the New York Mets addressed their needs elsewhere. I’m curious of who the Los...
Via Dodgers Locker
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December 12, 2011
The Dodgers have signed 30-year old lefty reliever/starter Wil Ledezma to a minor league deal. Ledezma pitched in 5 games (0 starts) for the Blue Jays last year and he was 0-0 with a 15.00 ERA and a 3.00 WHIP. He has now pitched in 192 games (40 starts) in his first 9 years in the majors and he is 15-25 with a 5.40 ERA and a 1.61 WHIP. Ledezma has always had a big time left arm...
Via NBC Los Angeles
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December 13, 2011
Maybe Frank McCourt's end game is not to sell the Dodgers after all.
It's been five weeks since the team went up for sale, but no one can bid because none of the prospective buyers has the book with the Dodger financial information.
The Changeup: Timeline: The Frank McCourt Era
That information has not been made available to prospective buyers.
Why the delay?
It's not...
Via ESPN
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December 12, 2011
The Dodgers agreed to terms with Tony Gwynn Jr. on a two-year contract Monday, less than five hours before the deadline for tendering contract offers to players who, like Gwynn, are eligible for arbitration.
Via SI.com
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December 12, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. to a $2 million, two-year contract.
Via dodgers.com
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December 12, 2011
The Dodgers announced Monday that they have agreed to a two-year deal with Tony Gwynn, one of a couple of players that appeared to be on the bubble for Los Angeles as Monday's 9 p.m. PT non-tender deadline approached.
Via ESPN
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December 12, 2011
A judge says Fox Sports may get to question Major League Baseball executive Rob Manfred as it tries to have the Los Angeles Dodgers bankruptcy dismissed.
Via MLB Trade Rumors
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December 12, 2011
The Dodgers announced that they signed outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. to a two-year deal. Gwynn will earn $850K in 2012 and $1.15MM in 2013 for a total of $2MM, according to Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times (on Twitter).
Gwynn, 29, posted a .256/.308/.353 line in 340 plate appearances this past season, playing all three outfield positions. The non-tender candidate had been projected...
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