As the Dodgers wrap up Spring Training with a lovely shutout of the Red Sox this afternoon, not to mention an amazing event yesterday, I thought I’d look back in the Trolley Dodger archives to March 2007 to see what was in the news one year ago. Always an interesting exercise.
On 3/25/07, old friend Brett Tomko had won the fifth starter’s spot: “Tomko on tap-ko”. I compared the 2007 rotation to 2006’s as of opening day. Here’s this year as well:
2008
- Brad Penny
- Derek Lowe
- Chad Billingsley
- Hiroki Kuroda
- Esteban Loaiza
2007
- Jason Schmidt
- Derek Lowe
- Brad Penny
- Randy Wolf
- Brett Tomko
2006
- Derek Lowe
- Brad Penny
- Odalis Perez
- Brett Tomko
- Jae Seo
We’ve come a long way.
Happy news and sad news. 3/28/07 — Nomar and Mia’s twins were born (happy belated one-year birthday!). “Captain, there be twins here!”. 3/29/07 Charley Steiner lost his mother, Gertrude.
Last, but not least, was an investigative report on how the Great Lakes Loons were standing up for all that is holy and good, in “Are the Loons fighting evil from Indiana?”