Alvarez has been scratched from tomorrow’s lineup. Now Dusty says he’s unsure when Alvarez will be able to play.
Could the latest reports on Alvarez, along w/ salary considerations, delay a Reddick trade?
That and Tucker’s slow spring among other things.
I’ve always thought that Reddick’s future with the club is more dependent on what Tucker does. Between Springer, Brantley, Straw, Diaz, and one of Reddick or Tucker, they’ll have enough personnel to adequately man the OF while rotating regulars through the DH spot (which Hinch did before Alvarez was called up). Reddick is an insurance policy for Alvarez’s injury, but he’s an expensive one.
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Are we beginning to see why the Dodgers were so quick to allow the Astros to get him? One wonders how early his problematic knees were showing up.
Das’s response to Alvarez’s interview helped:
It would be giving the Dodgers a lot of credit to think that they expected Alvarez to put on 35 pounds of almost all muscle in 2-3 years; even more that he would necessarily and inevitably develop knee problems as a result. He had no reported knee problems prior to last season, and only ever hit the disabled list due to a hand injury sustained in an outfield collision.
Oh, please. The Dodgers did not know who he was yet. He had not played at all for them.
Also this. The Dodgers thought enough of him to pay him $2 million, but traded him to the Astros just 17 days later (and only two days after he was assigned to the Dodgers’ DSL team).
Even if the Dodgers knew that he had a high chance of knee problems, if they knew how good he would become they would have held onto him
No DH in the NL. May have played a strong part in their thinking.
He was skinny! Why would they think a teenager is a DH? They did not know him at all yet!
They were getting a MLB reliever for him. They probably thought the Astros were crazy.
There is no way the Dodgers depart with Alvarez so cheaply if they thought he would hit 20 HR in a single season, much less run away with the RoY in either league while hitting over .300.
They whiffed. It happens.
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No doubt the Astros cheated them out of him (/sarcasm)
You know - I thought I had the name wrong just as I posted. Maybe I should run for President?
You admitted you misspoke and didn’t insist you had the right guy and everyone else was just fake history. You’re not really Presidential material, now are you?
And he managed to avoid calling anyone a lying dog-faced pony-soldier.
Listen fat.
The way things are going, Yordan and JV may be able to rest for a couple of months and not miss any games.
I mean you got the first sorta main-stream African American, who is articulate, bright, and clean, and a nice looking guy. I mean, it’s, that’s a storybook man.
Armenteros out for four months: