35-year old righty swinging catcher Rod Barajas and 27-year old switch-hitting Dioner Navarro have provided power and little else for the Dodgers in 2011. Barajas has played in 74 games for the Dodgers so far this year and he is 53 for 234 (.226 avg, .694 OPS) with 21 runs scored, 12 homers and 33 RBIs. Barajas has always been the kind of hitter he is right now, so the Dodgers are probably o.k. with his production. Dioner Navarro has played in 64 games for the Dodgers so far this year and he is 34 for 176 (.193 avg, .600 OPS) with 13 runs scored, 5 homers and 17 RBIs. At least Navarro is a pretty good defensive player because he just can’t seem to hit anymore.

33-year old righty swinging shortstop Rafael Furcal has been awful when healthy so far this year. Furcal has played in 31 games for the Dodgers so far this year and he is 19 for 115 (.165 avg, .420 OPS) with 10 runs scored, 1 homer, 9 RBIs and 3 stolen bases. He has now played in 611 games in his six years with the Dodgers and he is 703 for 2,489 (.282 avg, .754 OPS) with 402 runs scored, 44 homers, 225 RBIs and 107 stolen bases. Furcal has been so bad this year that the Dodgers can pretty much forget offering him around at the trade deadline.

27-year old lefty swinging James Loney just isn’t providing near enough thump for the Dodgers at 1B. 1B is generally a power position offensively but Loney has been a punch and judy hitter for the Dodgers so far this year. Loney has played in 87 games for the Dodgers so far this year and he is 86 for 310 (.277 avg, .675 OPS) with 23 runs scored, 4 homers, 31 RBIs and 3 stolen bases. Loney averaged 68.7 runs scored, 12.0 homers and 89.3 RBIs in his previous three years with the Dodgers and even that is below average production for a 1B. It will be interesting to see if the Dodgers can move Loney at the trade deadline because they really need to go in a different direction at 1B.

The Dodgers gave 31-year old righty swinging 2B/3B Juan Uribe a very nice contract over the winter. He played in 148 games for the Giants last year and he was 129 for 521 (.248 avg, .749 OPS) with 64 runs scored, 24 homers, 85 RBIs and 1 stolen base. The Dodgers figured that Uribe would give them some pop in the batting order while playing 2B for them. It just hasn’t worked out that way so far this year. Uribe has played in 51 games for the Dodgers so far this year and he is 38 for 177 (.215 avg, .602 OPS) with 12 runs scored, 3 homers, 22 RBIs and 1 stolen base. The Dodgers need Uribe to pick up the pace with the bat as they are having big time troubles scoring runs right now.

28-year old lefty swinging Tony Gwynn will get the next shot of filling the black hole in LF for the Dodgers. He has played in 54 games for the Dodgers this year and he is 21 for 96 (.219 avg, .552 OPS) with 10 runs scored, 0 homers, 5 RBIs and 5 stolen bases. Gwynn has played in 5 games so far in June and he is 5 for 13 (.385 avg, .846 OPS) with 3 runs scored, 0 homers and 1 RBI. If nothing else, Gwynn will really improve the Dodgers’ outfield defense.