{"id":324,"date":"2004-12-08T19:23:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T02:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2004-12-08T19:23:19","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T02:23:19","slug":"when-will-the-dodgers-management-pull-their-head-out-of-their-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/08\/when-will-the-dodgers-management-pull-their-head-out-of-their-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"When will the Dodgers management pull their head out of their ass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/baseball\/mlb\/la-sp-dodgers8dec08,1,2042271.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-mlb-dodger\">LA Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>Cold numbers won out over warm memories Tuesday night when the Dodgers unceremoniously severed ties with Steve Finley and Jose Lima, players who made unforgettable contributions to the team&#8217;s division championship.<\/p>\n<p>Neither player was offered salary arbitration by the 9 p.m. deadline, meaning the Dodgers cannot negotiate with them until May 1. By then, they undoubtedly will be wearing new uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 12 Dodger free agents, only third baseman Adrian Beltre, catcher Brent Mayne and pitchers Odalis Perez and Wilson Alvarez were offered arbitration. They have until Dec. 19 to accept it, which would ensure their return for at least one year.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers apparently decided weeks ago not to pursue Finley, 39, despite the production and leadership he supplied after being acquired from the Arizona Diamondbacks at the trading deadline. About a dozen teams \u00d1 including the Angels \u00d1 have expressed interest in signing him, but the Dodgers never made an offer.<\/p>\n<p>Finley&#8217;s ninth-inning, walk-off grand slam against the San Francisco Giants on Oct. 2 enabled the Dodgers to clinch the National League West title. In 58 games with the team, he had 13 home runs and 46 runs batted in.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times: Cold numbers won out over warm memories Tuesday night when the Dodgers unceremoniously severed ties with Steve Finley and Jose Lima, players who made unforgettable contributions to the team&#8217;s division championship. Neither player was offered salary arbitration by the 9 p.m. deadline, meaning the Dodgers cannot negotiate with them until May 1. By then, they undoubtedly will be wearing new uniforms. Among the 12 Dodger free agents, only third baseman Adrian Beltre, catcher Brent Mayne and pitchers Odalis&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-baseball","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-5e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}