Christopher M. Withrow

Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: April 1, 1989 in Austin, Texas, US
High Schools: Midland Christian HS (Midland, TX), Midland HS (Midland, TX)

Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1st round (20th) of the 2007 from Midland HS (Midland, TX).

• 5/21 Feelin' Kinda Blue: My 2013 MLB Draft big board for the Los Angeles Dodgers, v 1.0: We’re 16 days from the 2013 MLB Draft. The Dodgers hold the 18th selection in the first round. The draft is down in terms...
• 5/16 Inside the Dodgers: Daily Distractions: Dodgers have strength in numbers; quarter-pole records; mock drafts.: For all the logical reasons one can cite for the improved attendance at Dodger Stadium — it’s rising faster than Frank...
• 5/10 Inside the Dodgers: Daily Distractions: Are the Dodgers bringing up Scott Van Slyke today?: Scott Van Slyke has been promoted from Triple-A Albuquerque, but the Dodgers haven’t announced it yet, tweets Rob Rains....
• 5/5 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: The Day After: Now What?: Yesterday, it was Hanley Ramirez landing on the disabled list with Dee Gordon coming to replace him. Now, Jerry Hairston might...

• 4/7 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Video of Yasiel Puig's first Double-A home run, plus other prospect news: Yasiel Puig drew his first walk of 2013 on Friday night during the first Chattanooga Lookouts' game. Puig failed to draw a walk...

• 3/21 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Option Chris Withrow to Minor League Camp: With all the attention focused on Hanley Ramirez and the worrisome thought that he could miss two months or more due to a finger...
• 3/18 Inside the Dodgers: Dodgers rotation scramble: Josh Beckett scratched, Chad Billingsley bruised, Zack Greinke improving.: Josh Beckett was scratched from his scheduled start Tuesday with the flu. Several Dodgers have been afflicted with the bug (Ted...
• 3/17 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Carl Crawford Survives His First Game, Which Is More Than The Ball Matt Kemp Hit Can Say: Carl Crawford‘s spring debut ended up with no hits in three plate appearances — he flew to center and grounded to...
• 3/17 Lasorda's Lair: Crawford To Make Spring Dodger Debut Today As DH Against Brewers: Well, the Dodgers dropped another Cactus League game yesterday to the Rangers 4-0. So what right? These spring games are so meaningless,...
• 3/13 Lasorda's Lair: Which Dodger Injuries Worry You The Most?: The Dodgers are enjoying a much needed off-day today. After losing yesterday 6-2 at Goodyear park, to the Cincinnati Reds, the...
• 3/7 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Uncle Charlie: Examining the best curveballs in the Dodgers' farm system: Uncle Charlie. No. 2. The Hammer. Public Enemy No. 1. The Deuce. No matter what you call it, the curveball is probably the most...

• 2/19 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Flamethrowers: Examining the best fastballs in the Dodgers' farm system: Sticking with the power theme, I'm going to look at the best fastballs in the in the Dodgers' farm system. I'll separate the starters...
• 2/19 Lasorda's Lair: Dee Gordon Will Spend More Time in Minors: Barring any unforeseen injury or big upset during Spring Training, Don Mattingly has all but confirmed that Dee Gordon will be...
• 2/18 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Projecting the Dodgers’ Minor-League Rosters: Double-A & Triple-A: Editor’s note: Chris Jackson rounds off the minor league roster projections with Chattanooga & Albuquerque. Also, don’t...
• 2/17 Lasorda's Lair: Chris Withrow Injures Back, Jansen Has Ingrown Toenail Removed: Former Dodger first round draft pick, Chris Withrow, will miss a few days of workouts because of a back injury that is causing...
• 2/14 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Isotopes To Add Humidor; Science World On Edge: News out of Albuquerque: steps are finally being taken to make Isotopes Park somewhat less of a nightmare for pitchers. According...
• 2/14 Lasorda's Lair: Spring Training 2013: Pitchers and Catchers Workout for First Time: Cell phone pictures depicting some of our Boys in Blue began to hit Twitter and the internet. That only means one thing…Spring...
• 2/12 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Pitchers & Catchers Report; Life Worth Living Again: It’s been just over four months since the Dodgers last took the field, and while they managed to add Zack Greinke, Hyun-jin...
• 2/8 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers sign Mark Lowe and move Chris Withrow, Pedro Baez to the 'pen: The Dodgers and Mark Lowe had basically been dancing around for a couple weeks and finally came to an agreement on Friday. If...
• 2/6 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Podcast: 'Dugout Blues' episode 22 - Dodgers, Ross Stripling interview, prospects, minors, listener questions: On this episode of "Dugout Blues," Jared Massey (L.A. Dugout) and I interview Dodgers' pitching prospect Ross Stripling....
• 2/5 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Two Dodgers Make the Keith Law 100, Plus Chris Withrow & Pedro Baez Find New Homes: All sorts of news in the Dodger organization today… *** Corey Seager & Zach Lee make the Keith Law Top 100 list. Seager...

• 1/26 Lasorda's Lair: Baseball America Ranks Top Dodgers Prospects for 2013: Baseball America recently ranked the top 10 Dodgers prospects in their annual list. Here are their picks for the best players...
• 1/19 Motor City Bengals: MLB Farm System Rankings: #22 Los Angeles Dodgers: It’s that time of year again. Time to give this prospect junkie his fix. Last year, I did farm system rankings for all of baseball,...
• 1/5 Lasorda's Lair: Yasiel Puig Will Not Be Attending Winter Development Camp After All: The Dodgers officially announced the prospects who will be attending their sixth annual winter development camp at Camelback Ranch-Glendale,...
• 1/4 Lasorda's Lair: Dodgers Invite 13 Prospects to Winter Development Camp in Arizona: The Dodgers will be holding their annual winter development camp next week at their Camelback Ranch training facility in Glendale,...
• 1/3 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers invite top prospects to Winter Development Program in Arizona: The Dodgers have invited 13 prospects to their annual Winter Development Program, which begins next week at Camelback Ranch. The...
• 1/2 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Dodgers Invite 13 Prospects to Developmental Camp: Per Ken Gurnick of Dodgers.com, the club has announced the 13 players who will attend the annual Winter Development camp, to be...

• 11/24 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: 2012 Dodgers in Review #29: SP Joe Blanton: 4.99 ERA 3.74 FIP 7.96 K/9 2.50 BB/9 0.9 WAR C+ 2012 in brief: Surprise August addition got off to brutal start before providing...

• 9/2 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Diamondbacks @ Dodgers September 2, 2012: Welcome Back, Bobby: Just barely over a month after being DFA’d when the Dodgers acquired Shane Victorino, 38-year-old Bobby Abreu is back. He...

• 8/31 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Roster Expansion Likely to Bring Back Some Familiar Faces: Tomorrow is September 1, which means that rosters expand, and I’d much rather indulge in some good old-fashioned rosterbation...
• 8/24 BoSox Injection: Dodgers win trade rights to Gonzalez AND Beckett…48 hr DEADLINE to make deal: >>> FLASH >>> FLASH>>> FLASH>>> FLASH>>> FLASH>>> FLASH>>>...
• 8/24 BoSox Injection: Dodgers win trade rights to Gonzalez AND Beckett…48 hour deadline to make a deal: >>> FLASH >>> FLASH>>> FLASH>>> FLASH>>> FLASH>>> FLASH>>>...
• 8/18 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Chattanooga Lookouts boast a nasty bullpen, future Los Angeles Dodgers: The Chattanooga Lookouts are contending for a playoff spot in the Southern League and if they make it, they might be able...
• 8/16 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Dodgers @ Pirates August 16, 2012: Blanton vs Burnett: If the Dodgers and Pirates play a midweek afternoon game with Joe Blanton and A.J. Burnett on the mound, which no one is really...
• 8/3 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Cubs @ Dodgers August 3, 2012: Claim All of the Phillies: As morning turned into afternoon, all seemed quiet in Dodgertown, with only the prospect of a weekend series against the atrocious...
• 8/3 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: 40-Man Roster Questions Looming for Dodgers: As we head get into August and the roster expansion of September 1 gets closer by the day, a fun annual game becomes “can...

• 7/30 Baseball News Source: Dodgers Pitching Prospects – Zach Lee, Allen Webster, Chris Reed and More: At first glance, 20-year-old right-hander Zach Lee‘s 2012 minor league numbers are not impressive. In fact, they don’t...
• 7/30 Cubbies Crib: Alfonso Soriano To Join Ryan Dempster In Going To L.A.?:   The Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers remain in discussions over a potential trade that would send starting pitcher...
• 7/18 Cubbies Crib: Matt Garza and Ryan Dempster To The Los Angeles Dodgers?: June 13, 2012; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Matt Garza (22) kicks the rosin bag after giving up four runs in...
• 7/16 Cubbies Crib: Poll Results: Where Will Ryan Dempster Be Traded To?: With trade rumors involving Chicago Cubs starting Ryan Dempster heating up over the course of the past week, Cubbies Crib asked...
• 7/16 Lasorda's Lair: Phillies Come To Town, and Why I Think The Dodgers Should Stand Pat at Trade Deadline: Joe Blanton-7-8 vs. Nathan Eovaldi-1-5 Lineup: Hairston 3B Ellis 2B Kemp CF Ethier RF Rivera LF Loney 1B Cruz SS Ellis C Eovaldi...
• 7/15 Lasorda's Lair: Chad Billingsley Scratched From Start With Injury: Chad Billingsley (4-9, 4.30) vs. Jason Marquis (1-5, 3.71) Lineup: Gwynn 8 Ellis 2B Ethier RF Abreu LF Loney 1B Kennedy 3B Uribe...
• 7/15 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Chad Billingsley's elbow MRI could impact John Ely and Ryan Dempster: News broke this morning that Dodgers' starting pitcher Chad Billingsley was scratched from his start because of an "undisclosed...
• 7/15 Cubbies Crib: Ryan Dempster Streaking To A New Team?: July 14, 2012; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Ryan Dempster throws a pitch during the first inning against the...
• 7/14 Cubs Billy Goat Blog : Cubs' Ryan Dempster drawing lots of interest. What could he fetch?: According to ESPN's Bruce Levine, at least 10 teams are interested in the Cubs' Ryan Dempster.  Dempster currently is working...

• 6/23 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Reports: Kevin Youkilis trade coming soon, Dodgers still in play: Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports put out word late last night that Kevin Youkilis is likely to be traded soon. They...
• 6/4 Feelin' Kinda Blue: My 2012 Los Angeles Dodgers MLB Draft big board, plus other news: Richie Shaffer, future Dodger? Kevin Goldstein says no. Happy MLB Draft day! The Dodgers choose at No. 18 an No. 51...
• 6/1 Feelin' Kinda Blue: The Dodgers should take note: It pays to draft third basemen early: The MLB Draft is a crap shoot -- more so than any other draft in professional sports. When there's as many as 40 rounds, that's...

• 4/8 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Chris Withrow goes on minor-league DL with injury: Aaron Miller started for Chattanooga on Saturday. The tall lefty, who might ultimately be destined for the bullpen, went just...

• 3/15 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Castellanos, others reassigned to Dodgers' minor-league camp: The Dodgers reassigned nine players to their minor-league camp today in the first of many moves to come in the next few weeks.Michael...
• 3/14 Through The Fence Baseball: Cactus League update: Finding fantasy sleepers: Spring training is under way! What better time to snuff out potential fantasy baseball sleepers. Unless you are a walking baseball...
• 3/8 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Young bullpen guns make spring debuts: Despite Ned Colletti's infatuation with over-the-hill middle relievers, the Dodgers are relying on quite a few youngsters in the...

• 2/28 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers' prospects with the most to lose and gain in 2012: The 2012 season is one of uncertainty for the Dodgers. A lot of things will come into focus following the ownership transition,...
• 2/17 Through The Fence Baseball: Young hurlers offer bright future for Dodgers: There’s an old adage in football that states defense wins championships. A team that keeps its opponents out of the end zone...
• 2/1 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Breaking down FanGraphs' Top 15 Dodgers' prospect list: Marc Hulet of FanGraphs today published his Top 15 Dodgers' prospects list, and the first eight are pretty standard, but there...

• 1/30 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Baseball Prospectus releases its Top 20 Dodgers' prospects for 2012: Kevin Goldstein at Baseball Prospectus revealed his Top 20 Dodgers' prospects today. There are a few surprises -- good and bad...
• 1/30 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Monday Notes: Ownership & Prospects: Plenty to keep track of on this last Monday of January… * While we’re still waiting to hear more details on the (at...
• 1/25 MLB Dirt: 2012 Los Angeles Dodgers Top 16 Prospects: The Los Angeles Dodgers have a ton of pitching depth, especially in the right handed pitching department, but most of them look...
• 1/4 Feelin' Kinda Blue: The Chattanooga Lookouts will be stacked in 2012: The 2012 Chattanooga Lookouts, the Dodgers' Double-A affiliate, looks like it will begin the season as one of the most stacked...

• 12/12 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers have interest in Daniel Murphy, plus arbitration news: The Dodgers are apparently enamored with the Mets' Daniel Murphy, as the club tried to acquire him during the Winter Meetings,...
• 12/7 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers showing interest in Chase Headley?: Molly Knight of ESPN the Magazine dropped this interesting tidbit last night:"Source: Dodgers looking into Chase Headley."Headley...
• 12/6 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Winter Meetings Day Two Rumors: White, MacDougal, and a Bat: Though all of our moaning about Aaron Harang and the rest of Ned Colletti’s inexplicable moves has been, uh, “fun”,...

• 11/30 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Baseball America's Top 10 Dodgers' prospects leaked: Well, Friday was to be the day Baseball America released its Top 10 Dodgers' prospects. But the Dodgers' official Twitter account...
• 11/27 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers to sign Wil Ledezma, plus other Dodger links: The Dodgers are expected to sign LHP Wil Ledezma to a minor-league contract today, according to El Universal, a Venezuelan outlet....
• 11/20 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Erickson, Martin, St. Clair among prospects unprotected for Rule 5 Draft: The Dodgers added five players to the 40-man roster on Friday night ahead of the deadline.The players protected from Dec. 8's...
• 11/18 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Dodgers Add Five, Remove Ely & Monasterios: Today – by which I mean, about an hour from now – is the deadline to add eligible players to the 40-man roster before...
• 11/7 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Let’s Just Stop With the David Wright Talk Right Now: Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a lot of suggestions from a variety of different sources about how to improve the 2012...

• 10/5 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Five Dodgers make BA's Southern League Top 20: Baseball America published its Top 20 Southern League prospect list today, and five Dodgers made the cut.10. Allen Webster12....

• 8/15 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Redding having nice season for Dodgers' High-A team: When I saw Jon Michael Redding pitch against the Stockton Ports on June 17, he was less than impressive. His line: 4 IP, 8 H,...
• 8/11 Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: Dodgers Fill Slow News Day With Signing of Chris Reed: Here’s some good placeholder news for a night off: per Tony Jackson, the Dodgers have come to terms with their first round...
• 8/10 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Catching up on Dodger doings: Eovaldi, Gordon, Webster, Songco: Despite losing Rubby De La Rosa for the season and likely all of 2012, there is another young fireballer Dodger fans can be...
• 8/2 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Rubby De La Rosa could need Tommy John Surgery: Rubby De La Rosa went on the disabled list today with elbow inflammation. Anytime a pitcher goes on the DL with elbow issues,...

• 7/16 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Clayton Kershaw doesn't give up a lot of unearned runs: If you had looked at the score of last night's game, you might have thought Clayton Kershaw didn't pitch that well.Did he give...
• 7/14 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodger blogger profile: Evan Bladh (Opinion of Kingman's Performance): In the second installment of my Dodger blogger profile series, Evan Bladh of Opinion of Kingman's Performance answers my questions.His...
• 7/12 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Dodgers acquire Rivera from Blue Jays, for some reason: For reasons unknown and potentially confusing, the Dodgers acquired Juan Rivera and cash from the Blue Jays for a player to be...
• 7/12 Through The Fence Baseball: Why the Dodgers’ recent winning streak is a bad thing: I’m a goober. I just wanted to get that out of the way, right off the bat. I am a man, but I am also a big softie. I like kittens....

• 6/30 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Allen Webster: the Dodgers' most underrated prospect: When the Dodgers drafted Allen Webster in the 18th round of the 2008 MLB Draft out of McMichael High School in North Carolina,...
• 6/27 Feelin' Kinda Blue: My mid-2011 Top 15 Dodgers' prospects: The minor-league season is about half-way done and it's time to update my prospect rankings. As I did last year, I'm releasing...
• 6/20 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Could James Loney be in the Nationals' sights?: The Washington Nationals, despite being 33-36 and in last place in the National League East, are just five games out of a Wild...
• 6/20 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Could James Loney be in the Nationals' sights?: The Washington Nationals, despite being 33-36 and in last place in the National League East, are just five games out of a Wild...
• 6/19 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Could James Loney be in the Nationals' sights?: The Washington Nationals, despite being 33-36 and in last place in the National League East, are just five games out of a Wild...
• 6/16 Feelin' Kinda Blue: Could James Loney be in the Nationals' sights?: The Washington Nationals, despite being 33-36 and in last place in the National League East, are just five games out of a Wild...