By Jon Weisman
As Scott Van Slyke comes in for a landing, here’s a quick scan of some Dodger links around the Internet …
- Clayton Kershaw can hit several milestones this year, writes Paul Casella of MLB.com. A sample: “Kershaw, who has posted a 0.857 WHIP and a 0.881 WHIP in the past two seasons, respectively, could become the first starter with three sub-0.900 WHIP seasons.”
- MLB’s Statcast likes the chances for Alex Wood to improve in 2016, writes Mike Petriello for MLB.com. Jeff Sullivan takes his own deep dive on the same subject at Fangraphs.
- Led by Van Slyke and Kiké Hernandez, the Dodgers have baseball’s best backups, according to August Fagerstrom of Fangraphs.
- Baseball Prospectus has a detailed rundown of its top 10 Dodger prospects, plus five that just missed, then concludes with this ranking of the top 10 Dodgers at any level, age 25 and under:
1) Corey Seager
2) Yasiel Puig
3) Joc Pederson
4) Julio Urias
5) Jose De Leon
6) Alex Wood
7) Grant Holmes
8) Frankie Montas
9) Yadier Alvarez
10) Alex Verdugo
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