| 5/5/2013 10:03:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp is just 10-for-49 (.204) with one homer and 14 strikeouts against Matt Cain of the Giants. | Insight: Kemp's average is slowly climbing due to a 19-for-56 (.339) stretch, but he's still stuck on one home run and has been shut down by Cain in his career. | | |
| 5/3/2013 10:23:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp has raised his average to .260, and he has feasted on Giants starter Barry Zito in his career. Kemp is 24-for-55 (.436) with three homers, nine RBI and eight walks against Zito. | Insight: Kemp only has one homer this season, but he is hitting .356 (16-for-45) over his last 12 games. The talented outfielder should find his power stroke eventually, maybe even as soon as Friday against Zito. | | |
| 4/30/2013 11:28:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp likes facing Rockies left-hander Jorge De La Rosa. He's a career .435 hitter with three home runs and a 1.397 OPS in 23 at-bats. | Insight: Kemp is struggling to find his power stroke (.654 OPS) and it may be because his shoulder is still not 100 percent, so even this favorable matchup may not be enough to get him going. | | |
| Cold | 4/17/2013 7:42:00 PM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp is not in the starting lineup Wednesday night. | Insight: Kemp is getting a day off and should return to the starting lineup Friday. He is hitting just .185 this season with zero homers and 17 strikeouts in 54 at-bats, but fantasy owners should use this as a buy-low opportunity for one of the best players in fantasy baseball. | | |
| Cold | 4/16/2013 11:11:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp is just a .150 hitter (3-for-20) against Padres starter Jason Marquis. | Insight: Kemp (.196) has fanned 15 times in 51 at-bats and has zero homers in 13 games. Through 13 games last year, he already had seven homers. It appears the offseason shoulder surgery could be effecting his swing and his power. Avoid, avoid, avoid. | | |
| Cold | 4/14/2013 9:19:00 PM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts Sunday against Arizona. | Insight: Kemp (.174) has fanned 14 times in 46 at-bats and has zero homers in 12 games. Through 12 games last year, he already had six homers. | | |
| Cold | 4/11/2013 11:56:00 AM |
Description: Los Angeles center fielder Matt Kemp is off to a rough start and it probably won't get any better Thursday against Padres righty Jason Marquis (2-for-17 with five strikeouts). | Insight: It doesn't help that this one is being played at Petco Park, which is usually thought of as the definition of a pitcher's park. If you can afford to, give Kemp the night off and slot in another outfielder. Preferably, make it one who isn't a .118 lifetime hitter versus Marquis. | | |
| 4/9/2013 10:44:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp is a career .375 hitter (12-for-32) with a pair of homers and a 1.081 OPS against Padres starter Clayton Richards. | Insight: Kemp has gotten off to an ugly start batting just .100 with a .408 OPS. He's shown very little power and fantasy owners have to be concerned that the left shoulder which was operated on is not completely healed. This is a favorable matchup, but with an extremely out of sync hitter. | | |
| 4/3/2013 12:46:00 PM |
Description: Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp is just a .214 career hitter against Giants starter Tim Lincecum with nine hits in 42 at-bats and 18 strikeouts. | Insight: Of course, many of those at-bats were during Lincecum's two Cy Young seasons and he's not pitching anything like that these days. Kemp has started the season going 0-for-6 so this isn't the time to expect things to turn around. | | |
| 3/6/2013 11:44:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp (left shoulder surgery) made his first outfield start on Tuesday. | Insight: Kemp had surgery in October to repair his left shoulder labrum. He is 0-for-8 this spring, but at least he is healthy which is the main concern this spring. The hits will come and when healthy Kemp is a dynamic fantasy asset to any lineup. | | |
| 2/24/2013 2:44:00 PM |
Description: Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp won't play in spring training games until early March, manager Don Mattingly said. SOURCE: Los Angeles Times | Insight: Kemp had surgery in October to repair his left shoulder labrum. He said last week that he has only taken batting practice on he field three times since the procedure. He should be ready for Opening Day. | | |
| 10/7/2012 2:30:00 PM |
Description: According to the Los Angeles Times, the surgery on Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp's shoulder revealed that the condition was worse than expected. There's no guarantee that Kemp will be 100 percent for the start of next season. | Insight: Kemp is believed to have torn his labrum crashing into the center-field wall in Colorado on Aug. 28, an injury the team believed to be minor heading into the surgery. The doctor who performed the surgery said he expects Kemp to be ready for Opening Day, according to a statement issued by the Dodgers. | | |
| 10/4/2012 12:15:00 PM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp will have surgery on his injured left shoulder on Friday. | Insight: It should take Kemp about 6-to-8 weeks to recover. Kemp (.303, 23 HR, 69 RBI) went hitless in his final 10 at bats of the season so it's clear that his shoulder had been bothering him. | | |
| Cold | 10/3/2012 7:38:00 PM |
Description: Los Angeles outfielder Matt Kemp could undergo surgery on his left shoulder during the offseason. | Insight: It would be a fairly minor procedure and Kemp wouldn't be in danger of missing the start of Spring Training in February. Kemp (.303, 23 HR, 69 RBI) had been on a home run tear recently before going 0-for-8 with five strikeouts to begin his final series of the year against San Francisco. | | |
| Hot | 10/2/2012 10:38:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp is a career .462 hitter (24-for-52) against Giants lefty Barry Zito. | Insight: Kemp is batting .458 this week as he recovers from a bad September slump (.235). He's a must start against Zito. | | |
| Hot | 9/30/2012 10:11:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp stayed hot with a couple of homers Saturday in a win over Colorado. | Insight: Kemp has gone 9-for-17 at the plate over his last four games with three homers and seven RBI in that span. Who knows what kind of numbers the perennial All-Star might have put up had he stayed healthy this year. | | |
| 9/28/2012 1:59:00 PM |
Description: Los Angeles outfielder Matt Kemp is a career .375 hitter with three homers and a 1.114 OPS against Colorado starter Jeff Francis. | Insight: Kemp is batting .282 since the All-Star break with a .775 OPS versus .355 and 1.163 before the Summer Classic. Fantasy owners can only dream of what this season could have been like had Kemp not spent two stints on the disabled list. | | |
| 9/26/2012 10:32:00 PM |
Description: Los Angeles outfielder Matt Kemp smacked four hits Wednesday in an 8-2 win over the Padres. | Insight: Kemp (.304) had been hitless in his previous three games. Kemp's two-run shot in the sixth was his 20th home run of the season. It's his fourth season in a row with 20-plus homers. | | |
| 9/22/2012 9:59:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp has followed up a 5-for-48 streak with a .364 average in his last five games, but Mat Latos could silence Kemp's bat Saturday. | Insight: Kemp was banged up after slamming face-first into the center-field wall at Coors Field at the end of August and it contributed to a prolonged slump. He appears to have snapped out of that but he's just 3-for-16 (.188) with five strikeouts against Latos so he's unlikely to do much Saturday. | | |
| Cold | 9/21/2012 10:20:00 AM |
Description: Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp is 9-for-22 (.409) in his career against Reds right-hander Bronson Arroyo with a pair of homers and a 1.162 OPS | Insight: Kemp is in a horrible slump, going 15-for-77 (.195) in his last 20 games. His season-long numbers are solid, but after the April he had (.417, 12 HR, 25 RBI 1.383 OPS) fantasy owners are dreaming of what could have been had he stayed healthy. Perhaps this matchup will get him started for the final few weeks of the season. | | |
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