小郭的先發競爭對手又少一人 大富豪左投手 Matt White下放至3A 目前第五號先發候選人只剩小郭、Brett Tomko 和 Mark Hendrickson 目前牛棚已有 Takashi Saito, Jonathan Broxton, Joe Beimel, Chad Billingsley and Elmer Dessens ----------------------- VERO BEACH, Fla. -- The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who made more headlines for his rocks than his lobs during training camp this spring was reassigned to the team's minor league camp Monday. Matt White, a 29-year-old left-hander, discovered a valuable rock quarry behind a house he bought from an aunt three years ago in western Massachusetts. But while everyone else wanted to talk about his possible fortune, White wanted to stay focused on baseball. The attention the quarry received wasn't to blame for his reassignment, he said. Talk of the rock fortune was strange for a week, "but it settled down and I was able to do my job on the mound and that's what they are looking at," White said. "I don't even want to talk about rocks right now, but it wasn't a distraction to my pitching." The reliever allowed one earned run and two hits in 7 1-3 innings. He said he will be sent to Triple-A Las Vegas, where he is likely to be a situational left-hander. "Just go down and get your work in, keep your focus on what you have been doing since you have been up here," White said the team told him. "I will continue to work on my sidearm pitches and go down and get some innings to get ready to be called up." The Dodgers signed White as a free agent on Dec. 20. He has spent less than a year in the major leagues since his professional career began in 1998, and White entered camp competing for a job in a deep pitching staff. The bullpen already includes Takashi Saito, Jonathan Broxton, Joe Beimel, Chad Billingsley and Elmer Dessens, and White also would have been competing with the losers in the fifth-starter competition that includes Hong-Chih Kuo, Brett Tomko and Mark Hendrickson. Still, he said he never once thought about being reassigned. His one thought was on making the big club. "I know there is a lot of numbers in here, I am not naive to that, and I understand it is what it is," White said. "But it's always a bad feeling to get sent to minor league camp." In other Dodgers transactions Monday, pitchers D.J. Houlton and Eric Stults and outfielder Delwyn Young were optioned, and pitcher Jon Meloan, infielder Tony Abreu and outfielder Choo Freeman were reassigned. Abreu ended his spring training with a mild bone bruise on his left shoulder, sustained sliding into second base headfirst during a game Saturday. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press -- ███ ███ ▊▊█ ███ █◢ ███ ▅ █◢ █▄█ █ █ ▊▊█ █▅█ █◤ ▆▆█ █ █◤ █ ███ ███ █▅ █ █▅█ █ █ --

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