Pierre on 15-Day DL, Repko aboard
The news on Juan Pierre is a sprained MCL in his left knee, which will put him on the 15-Day disabled list. It's hard for me to predict how long he'll be out for sure. In part because I'm not a doctor, but both knees and sprains are tricky. But also because Pierre has missed so little time over the course of his career that it's hard to gauge how quick a healer he is. At any rate, we'll wish Pierre, along with Jason Repko, a familiar face being called up, the best.
The official announcement from the Dodgers is below.
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DODGERS PLACE OUTFIELDER JUAN PIERRE ON 15-DAY DISABLED LIST
Outfielder Jason Repko recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers today placed outfielder Juan Pierre on the 15-day disabled list with sprained medial collateral ligament (MCL) in his left knee and recalled outfielder Jason Repko from Triple-A Las Vegas. General Manager Ned Colletti made the announcement. Repko, who will wear No. 17, is available for tonight’s series opener at Houston.
Pierre suffered the injury yesterday at Dodger Stadium while sliding into second base during a stolen-base attempt in the sixth inning of the Dodgers’ 1-0 loss against the Angels. Pierre, 30, is being placed on the disabled list for the first time in his nine-year Major League career. Baseball’s active stolen-base leader with 424, Pierre is hitting .277 with 35 steals and 30 runs scored in 73 games this season. He ranks second in the Majors in steals, just one behind leader Willy Taveras, and is tied with James Loney for the team lead with 22 multi-hit games. The left-handed hitter has batted leadoff in each of the last 49 games while Rafael Furcal has been on the disabled list.
Repko hit .277 with 16 doubles, six homers, 29 RBI, and 15 steals in 74 games with Triple-A Las Vegas. The 27-year-old has batted .375 (39-for-104) with eight doubles, 15 RBI, and eight steals in 26 games in June. Repko, a sandwich pick (37th overall) of the 1999 First-Year Player Draft, missed all of the 2007 season with a torn right hamstring. He appeared in 198 games with the Dodgers from 2005-06, batting .232 with 20 doubles, 11 homers, 46 RBI and 15 steals.
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Benzo
Where are you celebrating the return of Repko? The one man wrecking crew.HaHa That must have been music to your ears?
Package
Posted by: Package | June 30, 2008 at 02:17 PM
Repko-mania has officially begun. Repko is going to be bringing the "Pain Train" like Reebok's Terry Tate office linebacker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94
Posted by: poppinfresh | June 30, 2008 at 02:29 PM
From what I can recall of their contracts without doing any actual research:
Tony Abreu $400,000
Nomar Garciaparra $10,000,000
Jason Schmidt $17,000,000
Rafael Furcal $13,000,00
Gary Bennett $1,000,000
Andruw Jones $18,000,000
Hiroki Kuroda $12,000,000
Brad Penny $9,000,000
Scott Proctor $4,000,000
Juan Pierre $9,000,000
That's $93,400,000 on the DL right now. Absolutely astounding...
Posted by: elf | June 30, 2008 at 03:02 PM
Elf,
What is even worse is that only Furcal has been earning an appropriate salary for his performance this year!
Posted by: Lex | June 30, 2008 at 03:28 PM
Did anyone see Ethier get bent over yesterday at his last at bat? The home plate umpire was very good throughout the game and consistent as far as umps go this year but he really hurt Ethier and the Dodgers on that last at bat.
To me, Ethier was finally ZONED in and looked as if he could / would do something good. Lets an outside pitch go and the umpire makes a bonehead play and calls strike three.... the positive is Ethier might have had a light turned on at bat... hopefully this is the beginning of some solid at bat....Loney's at bat was good too... Frankie KRod just made some great pitches for the first two strikes.... Kemp however still looks clueless as ever.
Posted by: Rob | June 30, 2008 at 03:46 PM
elf:
Nomar only makes 9 million, and Proctor 1 million, but the others are close enough. You also forgot $7 million for Esteban Loaiza who went on the DL before the DFA.
Frankly, the only guy on that list who was contributing when he went down was Furcal. The Dodgers would have been better off if each of those guys had been on the DL all year. Penny has been awful, Kuroda hs been fine for a fourth starter, but certainly no better than Eric STults at this point, Bennett has Mackey Sasser's disease, Nomar is done, Pierre is the same Pierre as always, and we all know how horrendous Andruw jones has been.
I wouldn't be heartbroken if none of those guys returned in 2008, save for Furcal. Nomar is going to cause alogjam at third. If Proctor returns, Joe will be tempted to use him instead of Kuo or Park. Bennett can't hit or throw. Fatso had better learn to hit above .225 or he's just standing in the way of Delwyn Young.
Penny, Kuroda, and Schmidt all have to show me that they deserve to return to the rotation by pitching better than Chan Ho Park is pitching right now.
Posted by: SaMo | June 30, 2008 at 03:59 PM
The Dodgers finally have a Minnesota payroll:
The funny thing is that aside from Furcal, I don't see that any of their high priced free agents have helped. This team isn't just young. They're young and good.
Best of all, the Dodgers are a big market team that has the money to keep this nucleus together for years to come. Unlike Oakland, Florida, or Cleveland, they can sign their own players to big contracts when the time comes due. How'd you like to see Loney, Martin, Ethier, Kemp, Deyoung, DeWitt, become a latter-day Garvey Lopes Russell Yeager, and Cey? It could definitely happen, and for a lot cheaper than the losers they've brought in over the years.
Derek Lowe rhp 9,000,000
Chad Billingsley rhp 415,000
Chan Ho Park rhp 500,000
Clayton Kershaw lhp 350,000
Eric Stults lhp $350,000
Takashi Saito rhp 2,000,000
Joe Beimel lhp 1,925,000
Jonathan Broxton rhp 454,000
Hong-Chih Kuo lhp 390,000
Brian Falkenborg rhp 350,000
Ramon Troncoso rhp 390,000
Cory Wade, rhp 350,000
James Loney 1b 410,000
Jeff Kent 2b 9,000,000
Angel Berroa ss 0
Blake DeWitt 3b 390,000
Russell Martin c 500,000
Andre Ethier of 424,500
Matt Kemp of 406,000
Jason Repko of 487,500
Mark Sweeney 1b-of 600,000
Andy LaRoche 3b 392,500
Luis Maza ss 350,000
Danny Ardoin c 350,000
Delwyn Young of 391,000
Total $30,175,500.00
Posted by: SaMo | June 30, 2008 at 04:21 PM
I'm completely surprised that Aryan has not yet posted. How will we be able to live with his posts if Repko tears it up? Actually, I really hope he does.
Posted by: dalegribel | June 30, 2008 at 04:43 PM
Have you all seen www.BattingStanceGuy.com ? He's really good and has recently done the Angels and the Dodgers. Very funny
Posted by: Go Blue | June 30, 2008 at 05:03 PM
Hey Benzo
I don't know about you but right now I'm not to happy with Repko. So far he has booted the ball in outfield and struck out 3 times. Contact would have been nice.
Package
Posted by: Package | June 30, 2008 at 06:21 PM
SaMo,
Do we really want this nucleus to stay together? I ask in all seriousness.
Posted by: hashpipe | June 30, 2008 at 06:49 PM
Package,
Repko looked around him, saw how nonchalant and uninspired his teammates were, and started channeling them. Disinterest is what happens when you put on the Dodger Blue. Evidently, it's uncool to play with passion.
Posted by: Rufus Leaking | June 30, 2008 at 07:01 PM
Only 3 or 4 of the 'youngsters' will stay with Dodgers..they'll be the good ones. Don't worry.
Nice start to Repkomania! 5 strikeouts! Hmmm, even Sweeney could have doen better. Maybe.
Posted by: dodger55 | June 30, 2008 at 07:53 PM
I don't think Torre has ever looked at the stats of these players. Before the Pierre injury he stated that Jones would be back in center with a straight left/right platoon between Ethier and Kemp. Does he seriously believe that Pierre is better than either Ethier or Kemp? Please hire a manager that is under 95 and a GM that looks at injury risk instead of stats from 5 years ago!
Posted by: cpark29 | June 30, 2008 at 07:57 PM
Haha... Repko goes 0-5 with 4 (should've been 5) strikeouts. How much more worse of a season debut can you have? Aryan? What say you?
(At least he didn't ground into a DP as Loney did... AGAIN! This guy frustrates me more than anybody.)
This team is an absolute joke. They are the punchline to a joke. I mean, a day after the Pierre DL/Repko call-up ordeal, Matt Kemp wakes up with an... "eye infection"?? Sounds fishy to me. Sounds like code for "pink eye from the dirty stripclub." But I digress...
How do you get 11 hits and only score 1 run? How does this team do it?! You have to TRY to be this mediocre. I'm gonna see my relatives from Houston for the 4th, and ugh, it's really embarrassing. They better turn it around real quick before they become a THIRD place team (watch out for the Giants up next).
Posted by: Higgins | June 30, 2008 at 08:23 PM
Package,
repko was sleepy... he had to fly to houston on his own and his wings are tired.
Posted by: Benzojones | June 30, 2008 at 09:00 PM
Higgins nice shot at Kemp. As for the Messiah, Benzo is right he did run the red eye out of Vegas, look for a more inspired 1-4 day with 2Ks. Though he did have some good catches in the field. Thats more than i can say about Pierre.
Posted by: poppinfresh | July 01, 2008 at 07:31 AM
Juan,
Keep your head up and we hope to see you on the field again soon!!!!!
Posted by: Imani Goff | July 01, 2008 at 01:04 PM