Ladies and gentlemen, of all relievers the Dodgers send down... Hong Chi Kuo

There were two Dodger relievers who were recently struggling with control issues. The media seemed to focus on Lance Carter (and his Bradenton tapes), while the wildness of Hong Chi Kuo was mostly taking a low profile.

After yesterday's ninth-inning meltdown at the Padres, when Carter allowed three batters to reach base, without getting anybody out, some roster moves had to be made. Straight after the game GM Ned Colletti announced that indeed a player was brought up from Triple-A Vegas. It's a LHP Joe Beimel, another former Tampa Bay D-Ray in the Dodger organization.

The most surprising part of this move though is that we sent down LHP Kuo, rather than Carter. Citing the lack of minor league options for the latter (do you think any team would have taken him after what we've seen so far??), Colletti and Little allowed Carter to get back on track in LA. At the same time, the Carter situation is "still a topic of discussion" as claimed by our management.

I don't understand this. The only consolation for now is the excellent piece by Jon Wiesman where he claims that Carter's bad karma must change:

"As unimpressed as I've been by Carter, I don't think he's as bad
as he's shown himself this month. But that's not good enough,
not with Jonathan Broxton sizzling in Las Vegas.
I'd rather take my chances on Broxton's major league control
problems to get his strikeout pitch than see Carter's
dejected face after another poor outing. That's the next move
that has to be made. "

As I wrote earlier, I agree with John on this. Unfortunately our voices were not heard in the midst of the final innings pandemonium at Petco Field in San Diego...