You Say You a Rude Boy: Matt Kemp in a Pickle with Dodgers

Posted: 26th June 2010 by Dennis Schlossman in MLB
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Matt Kemp would have never imagined a better start to a baseball season. At the 14-game mark of the 2010 campaign, the Los Angeles Dodgers' center fielder was a terror at the dish, batting .333 with seven home runs and 20 RBI. Calculated over the course of the season, that's a pace of 81 HR and 231 runs batted in. Anyone with a shred of common sense knew that Kemp wouldn't maintain those types of numbers, but at the end of April when the Dodgers were 9-14 and in last place in the NL West, the blame game began—and most of the fingers were pointing toward Kemp. On April 27, Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti appeared on KABC Radio's "The Peter Tilden Show" and when asked about the dismal performance of his team, Colletti was quick to give fault to Matt Kemp. Colletti t ...

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