2K24: Los Angeles Dodgers

[Bodhizefa]

Hatcher with the save! He looked good, too.

[onejayhawk]

Oh My, Jimmy Rollins says " It's nice to be in LA" with a 3 run bomb!

What odds that is his total for April?

J

[Gregg]

What odds that is his total for April?

J

I will take the over.

[bryanbutler]

What odds that is his total for April?

J

he hit more HR last year (17) than puig (16). just sayin'.

[Gregg]

Man, Yasiel Puig might have the best outfield arm I've ever seen. Check out this throw:




With no momentum, even. Vladdy-esque.

Wow. Thanks for posting.

Andre Dawson made some of the best throws I have ever seen. That is right up there.

[gcstomp]

Andrew Dawson, you are getting old school. Bo Jackson had a cannon if we are going back to physical freaks.

[BuckyBuckner]

Vernon Wells had a cannon too. I was at a game at Fenway and the Sox had a guy on third with less than two outs and there was a fly ball to center that was fairly deep so the crowd assumed it would get the run in. As the ball was hit the crowd let out a "yeah" followed by a confused perhaps disappointed "awww" when the runner didn't break for home and finally a "ooooh" when Wells let fly with a strike to home. All three sounds where seconds apart and all in unison.

He might not be on the level as Puig or Dawson though.

[mgwiz22]

Guerrero was excellent but Valentine and Bo Jackson were better.

[Pauly]

Give me Juan Pierre any day






...not.

[Sour Masher]

Ichiro and Vlad have the best outfield arms (in their respective primes, of course) that I've ever seen.

I'm glad you gave Ichiro his props. It always amazed me what a cannon that little guy had. I really wish he'd been able to come over when he was like 20, because he'd probably have 4000+ hits by now and would rightfully be talked about as maybe the best slap hitting OFer of all time. I loved his game.

[BuckyBuckner]

Give me Juan Pierre any day






...not.

With Johnny Damon and Bernie Williams. Between the three of them they might be able to get it back to the infield.

[Erik]

IIRC Larry Walker had quite a cannon too.

[bryanbutler]

never saw anybody live that threw a ball like dawson. the ball literally looked like it jumped forward along its line of progress. and i only saw him late in his career...

[TranaGreg]

I'm glad you gave Ichiro his props. It always amazed me what a cannon that little guy had. I really wish he'd been able to come over when he was like 20, because he'd probably have 4000+ hits by now and would rightfully be talked about as maybe the best slap hitting OFer of all time. I loved his game.

I occasionally have a line on field level tix here in the first row down the right field line, right in front of where the ballboy sits - he's the kid who warms up the opposing team's right fielders in between innings. So I asked him who had the hardest throw of anyone he's warmed up (over the past 3-4 years). No hesitation - unquestionably Ichiro.

I've sat there watching him warm up. It's so effortless.

Having said that, the two best RF arms I've seen in person were Ellis Valentine & Jesse Barfield. That Puig throw is in their class tho, no question.

[joncarlos]

I don't know if Ichiro had the same flat-footed arm strength that Puig showed in that throw. But Ichiro got his whole body into it, and his throwing motion was so effortless and so fast, that the results were just as good (maybe better). And when you combine velocity and accuracy, Ichiro stands above guys like Vlad and Puig.

I'll just leave this here

https://youtu.be/TjGxBHccCuw