[新聞] Tsao is a quality pickup
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DODGERS REPORT
Tsao is a quality pickup
Acquired at urging of General Manager Ned Colletti, the reliever has
allowed no runs and one hit in nine appearances since being recalled
from triple-A.
By Steve Henson
Times Staff Writer
8:53 PM PDT, May 2, 2007
Among the flotsam and jetsam of players released during the off-season
throughout baseball, one name prompted General Manager Ned Colletti to
call his new director of player development, De Jon Watson.
Pitcher Chin-hui Tsao had been released by the Colorado Rockies, six
years after he'd been signed out of Taiwan for a large bonus and one
injury-plagued year after starting the season as the Rockies closer.
"Do what you've got to do and sign him," Colletti told Watson.
Tsao was signed to a major league contract and the Dodgers placed him on
the 40-man roster, agreeing to pay him $425,000 if he made the team and
$250,000 if he spent the season in the minors.
"We thought he had great upside if his arm got healthy," Colletti said.
No kidding. Tsao has allowed no runs and one hit in nine appearances
since being recalled from triple A. When he came into the game against
the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday with a runner on first and none
out in the seventh and retired the side in order, it marked his eighth
perfect inning in a row.
Opposing batters are one for 31 against him.
"All he does is get people out," Manager Grady Little said.
Little must resist the urge to use him too often.
"We'll be careful with him and not abuse him," he said. "I'd like
nothing more than to put him out there for three innings. But we can't
do that."
Luis Gonzalez was given the day off Wednesday, but fellow veteran Jeff
Kent was in the lineup for the 27th time in 28 games.
Little talked to the 39-year-old second baseman to make sure he felt
good enough to play the noon game after having played 26 innings the
previous two days. Kent is scheduled to take off Friday night in Atlanta
with right-hander John Smoltz pitching.
"Right now the way Jeff Kent is swinging against left-handers, it's hard
to think of him on the bench," Little said.
Kent entered the game eight for 22 (.364) against left-handers, but only
three for 19 (.158) against Diamondbacks starter Doug Davis. He went one
for two with a walk against him and one for three in the game, but
committed his third error when he fumbled a groundball by Stephen Drew
in the fifth inning.
The Diamondbacks' initiative to purge the purple from their organization
has spread to the road. They asked the Dodgers to remove the plastic
on-deck circle in front of the Diamondbacks' dugout at Dodger Stadium
that featured the old logo and color purple.
steve.henson@latimes.com
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