Perhaps no other team in MLB is as aggressive as the Dodgers when the opportunity to land elite talent presents itself. Coming off another trip to the NLCS, that wasn’t likely to change this offseason. It didn’t, as the Dodgers poached the top hitter from the team that knocked them out en route to a World Series title.
Major League Signings
- 1B Freddie Freeman: Six years, $162MM (deal includes deferrals that reduce net present value to around $148MM)
- LF Chris Taylor: Four years, $60MM (including buyout of 2026 club option)
- LHP Clayton Kershaw: One year, $17MM
- LHP Andrew Heaney: One year, $8.5MM
- LHP Tyler Anderson: One year, $8MM
- RHP Daniel Hudson: One year, $7MM (including buyout of 2023 club option)
- LHP Danny Duffy: One year, $3MM (deal also contains 2023 club option)
- 2B Hanser Alberto: One year, $1.6MM (including buyout of 2023 club option)
- RHP Jimmy Nelson: One year, $700K (deal also contains 2023 club option)
Option Decisions
- RHP Trevor Bauer forewent opportunity to opt out of final two years and $64MM
- Team declined $12MM option on RHP Joe Kelly in favor of $4MM buyout
Trades and Claims
- Traded RF Billy McKinney and LF Zach Reks to Rangers for cash
- Traded LF Luke Raley to Rays for minor league RHP Tanner Dodson
- Traded LF Matt Beaty to Padres for minor league IF/RHP River Ryan
- Acquired RHP Craig Kimbrel from White Sox for LF AJ Pollock
Notable Minor League Signings
- Yency Almonte (later selected to 40-man roster), Eddy Alvarez, Pedro Báez, Dellin Betances, Beau Burrows, Robbie Erlin (later selected to 40-man roster, then outrighted), Carson Fulmer (via minor league Rule 5 draft), Sam Gaviglio, Shane Greene (later selected to 40-man roster, then designated for assignment), Ty Kelly, Jake Lamb, Jason Martin, Reyes Moronta (later selected to 40-man roster), Kevin Pillar, Yefry Ramirez, Stefen Romero, Tomás Telis, Mike Wright Jr., Daniel Zamora
Extensions
None
Notable Losses
- Max Scherzer, Corey Seager, Kenley Jansen, Pollock, Corey Knebel, Kelly, Albert Pujols, Sheldon Neuse, Beaty, McKinney, Reks, Andrew Vasquez, Scott Alexander, Darien Núñez, Edwin Uceta, Andy Burns
The Dodgers’ streak of eight consecutive NL West titles came to an end in 2021, but it wasn’t through any fault of theirs. 106 wins just wasn’t enough to catch the 107-win Giants, as those two clubs battled for the division down to the final weekend. The Dodgers got their revenge in the postseason, knocking off their archrivals in a tightly-contested NL Division Series, but their hopes of a repeat World Series title were dashed the following round by the eventual champion Braves.
Because of their consistently upper-tier payrolls and highly aggressive front office, the Dodgers are a team to watch every offseason. That was even more true than usual after 2021, as Los Angeles faced a number of potential key free agent departures. They’d stunned the baseball world by pulling off a Trea Turner — Max Scherzer blockbuster with the Nationals last summer. Turner is controllable through 2022, but Scherzer was headed for free agency. So was Corey Seager, whom Turner could ostensibly replace at shortstop. Franchise stalwarts Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen were going to be available, as was super-utilityman Chris Taylor and a couple solid veteran relievers (Corey Knebel and Joe Kelly, the latter of whom was bought out by the club due to concerns about his arm health).
There was no question the Dodgers would keep some segment of that group, but they were never going to hold onto the whole bunch. To begin the offseason, L.A. was faced with a few qualifying offer decisions. Tagging Seager and Taylor was an easy call, as neither would accept. Scherzer and Jansen were ineligible — the former because he was dealt midseason, the latter because he’d already received a QO in his career. The only borderline case was Kershaw, one of the greatest players in franchise history. Kershaw remained highly productive but ended the season on the injured list due to forearm/elbow inflammation.
The Dodgers ultimately elected not to issue a qualifying offer, but president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman quickly maintained that wasn’t for lack of interest in keeping the three-time Cy Young winner around. Friedman suggested Kershaw wanted some time to ponder his future with his family, seemingly deciding between a return to L.A. or signing with his hometown Rangers. Kershaw’s decision would linger for months, but there’d be plenty of pre-lockout activity for the club.
Los Angeles was the first team to sign one of MLBTR’s top 50 free agents, agreeing to an $8.5MM guarantee with starter Andrew Heaney a few days into the offseason. The left-hander was coming off a miserable 2021 season split between the Angels and Yankees, with the latter club designating him for assignment rather than carry him on their postseason roster. Heaney was bombarded by home runs, but his quality strikeout and walk numbers figured to make him an appealing buy-low candidate. The Dodgers installed him into their season-opening rotation, and he had an excellent first two starts before suffering a shoulder injury.
Adding Heaney certainly didn’t preclude the Dodgers from trying to keep Scherzer at the top of the starting staff. Los Angeles was in the bidding for the eight-time All-Star, but he eventually departed for a three-year, $130MM contract with the Mets. Within a day of seeing Scherzer depart, the Dodgers also pulled out of the bidding for their longtime shortstop. Seager agreed to terms on a ten-year, $325MM deal with the Rangers. That wound up being easily the biggest guarantee of the offseason, and the Dodgers merely picked up a compensatory draft choice after the fourth round for his departure.
Of course, the front office wasn’t going to idle as the rest of the league attacked the pre-lockout period with urgency. The Dodgers added capable set-up man Daniel Hudson on a $7MM guarantee, backfilling the relief corps in light of their departures. More importantly, they won the bidding for Taylor, bringing him back on a four-year, $60MM guarantee.
Taylor has had a stellar five-plus year run in Southern California. Acquired from the Mariners in what turned out to be a 2016 trade heist, he’s provided manager Dave Roberts with ample defensive flexibility bouncing between the three most challenging infield positions and both left and center field. Plenty of players nowadays are willing to man multiple positions, but few do so while consistently posting above-average offensive production. Taylor does, with enough power and patience to offset some swing-and-miss concerns. The Dodgers clearly valued the skillset he brings on both sides of the ball, as he wound up being one of just two multi-year deals they landed out.
The other wouldn’t come until after the work stoppage, but there were hints of its possibility during the pre-lockout frenzy. Some considered it a fait accompli the Braves would re-sign Freddie Freeman. He’d been a career-long member of the organization, won the 2020 NL MVP award, and mashed throughout last year’s World Series run. Atlanta would certainly make an effort to bring him back, and prevailing industry expectation early in the winter was they’d succeed.
By the time the lockout arrived, that sentiment was starting to dwindle. Freeman and the Braves hit a stalemate in negotiations about whether the team should offer a sixth guaranteed season. Rumblings emerged that the Dodgers could be in position to make a run at the three-time Silver Slugger winner. Not only are the Dodgers a potential factor on every free agent superstar, Freeman is an Orange County native who could welcome the opportunity to return to the area.
Coming out of the lockout, reports emerged that the Dodgers were making a spirited run at Freeman. They and the incumbent Braves were viewed as essential co-favorites in those first few days, and Atlanta’s preemptive acquisition of Matt Olson from the A’s pulled them from the running. That left the Dodgers as the likeliest landing spot, and while teams like the Yankees, Blue Jays, Red Sox, Padres and even Rays were mentioned as possible suitors late in the process, L.A. eventually got it done.
Freeman signed a six-year, $162MM pact that wound up being the fourth-largest free agent guarantee of the offseason (although deferrals reduced its actual net present value under $150MM). The Dodgers added another elite bat to an already loaded lineup, and they injected even more intrigue into the NL playoff race by poaching a homegrown superstar from one of their direct competitors.
The Braves, meanwhile, would throw a counterpunch of their own by signing Jansen to be their closer. While the front offices were surely making what they calculated to be the best baseball operations decisions, there’s probably some small amount of satisfaction in trading offseason barbs with potential budding rivals. Virtually all the top teams in the National League conducted or at least tried to orchestrate significant roster shakeups over the winter.
Having lost Jansen, the Dodgers faced a void in the ninth inning. It appeared they’d turn to Hudson or returning relievers like Blake Treinen and Brusdar Graterol there, but they instead opted for a much splashier move. The week before Opening Day, the Dodgers and White Sox aligned on a one-for-one swap of veterans. Los Angeles sent corner outfielder AJ Pollock to Chicago in exchange for Craig Kimbrel in an out-of-the-blue trade.
Kimbrel had become an increasingly tricky player to value. One of the sport’s best relievers for almost a decade with Atlanta, Boston and San Diego, his production had largely fallen off since he signed a three-year pact with the Cubs midway through 2019. Kimbrel was ineffective over the first two seasons of that deal and his contract looked like a negative-value asset before he returned to vintage form for a few months. The right-hander tossed 36 2/3 innings of 0.49 ERA ball for the Cubs during the first half of last season, striking out almost half the batters he faced in the process.
After the Cubs sent him to the White Sox in a crosstown deadline deal, however, his production sputtered. He allowed more than five earned runs per nine over the season’s final couple months thanks to significant home run issues. Kimbrel’s strikeout and swinging strike numbers remained strong, but they’d dipped from their otherworldly heights on the North Side. After the Sox exercised a $16MM club option on his services, it looked as if there may not be much trade interest.
In the end, the Dodgers felt comfortable enough with their position player depth to roll the dice that Kimbrel’s still a late-game weapon. Pollock had remained a very productive player, particularly offensively, when healthy. Yet the 34-year-old has battled numerous injuries in recent seasons, and the Dodgers arguably didn’t need another outfielder. They’ve never shied away from stockpiling depth, but the opportunity to address what looked like the relative weakest area of the roster — the bullpen — arose, and the front office took it.
No other team in baseball can match the talent the Dodgers have around the diamond. Will Smith is one of the sport’s best catchers, backed up by Austin Barnes. Freeman takes over at first base, allowing Max Muncy to rotate through second base, third base and the newly-implemented NL designated hitter. Former top prospect Gavin Lux finally gets an opportunity for regular run at second, with Justin Turner splitting time between the hot corner and DH. Trea Turner slides back from second base to his typical shortstop position in Seager’s stead.
Taylor is primarily a left fielder given the strength of the club’s infield, but he’s certainly capable of kicking back to the dirt if necessary. The Dodgers signed righty-hitting utilityman Hanser Alberto to add some more defensive flexibility, a move that squeezed the bat-first Matt Beaty off the roster. (L.A. traded Beaty to the rival Padres after designating him for assignment). Edwin Ríos returns from May shoulder surgery that prematurely ended his 2021 season to round out the infield.
The outfield primarily consists of Taylor, Cody Bellinger and Mookie Betts. The Dodgers elected to tender Bellinger an arbitration contract despite an abysmal 2021 season, placing faith in the 2019 NL MVP to bounce back. He’s not found anything approaching that kind of form in the early going, but he’s at least making an impact from a power perspective again after slugging just .302 last season. Combined with strong defense in center field, Bellinger’s still a valuable player, even if there’s probably some amount of frustration he’s not been able to maintain his early-career superstar form.
Most of the Dodgers’ remaining offseason moves could broadly be seen as taking shots on talented pitchers with injury concerns. Kershaw is the ultimate example, as he decided to return to the only organization he’s ever known coming out of the lockout. The Dodgers inked him to a one-year, $17MM guarantee, avoiding a long-term commitment but reinforcing Friedman’s claims from earlier in the offseason the franchise would spend to keep him around if Kershaw wanted to stay.
That wasn’t a mere legacy signing, as Kershaw is still the kind of ultra-talented pitcher they’d happily hand a postseason start when he’s right. He started the 2022 campaign with five excellent outings before experiencing some inflammation in his right hip/pelvis area. That’s less concerning than an arm issue would be, but he’ll miss at least a few weeks. The organization is surely hopeful he’ll be at full strength to take the ball alongside Julio Urías and Walker Buehler come playoff time.
Who else factors into that rotation mix remains to be seen, but the Dodgers have some options. Tony Gonsolin remains on hand, and Heaney should’ve long since returned from his IL stint for the stretch run. Dustin May is rehabbing from last spring’s Tommy John surgery, and prospects Ryan Pepiot and Michael Grove have gotten brief looks in the majors so far. (Trevor Bauer is on the team’s restricted list after declining to exercise his opt-out clause, but he’s in the midst of the appellate process after Major League Baseball handed down a two-year suspension after finding he’d violated the Domestic Violence policy last month).
The club also figures to poke around the summer trade market for potential upgrades. They reportedly had discussions with the Reds about Luis Castillo over the winter, and the high-octane righty could be available again. Former Dodger prospect Frankie Montas and Tyler Mahle are among the other mid-rotation types who might be on the market.
This front office regime has been very willing to take some risks from a health perspective in pursuit of talent. Jon Heyman of the New York Post reported this week they made a one-year offer to Carlos Rodón, another hurler who fits in the high-octane, high-risk bucket. (Rodón ended up in San Francisco on a two-year pact that allows him to opt out after this season). Yet they’ll obviously need to collect bulk innings somewhere to avoid overworking the bullpen, and they took a step in that regard during Spring Training.
Los Angeles signed southpaw Tyler Anderson to an $8MM guarantee. He’s a bit against that archetype, providing lower-variance production at the back end of the rotation. Anderson isn’t flashy and doesn’t typically work deep into starts, but he reliably took the ball every fifth day for Pittsburgh and Seattle last season and offers a valuable complement to some of the riskier arms in the back-end mix.
Kimbrel and Hudson were the biggest bullpen additions, although the Dodgers took a couple low-cost fliers on talented but injured arms there as well. Acquiring Danny Duffy from the Royals last summer didn’t pan out as hoped, as he had a setback in his recovery from the flexor strain that had him on the injured list at the time. He didn’t pitch for the Dodgers in 2021, but the club brought him back on a $3MM guarantee with an incentive-laden option for 2023.
Duffy has been targeting a June return, and the longtime starter suggested he’d work in shorter stints this year as a means of preserving his health after a long layoff. He has the potential to make a late-season impact in the middle to late innings. That may not be true of Jimmy Nelson, who underwent Tommy John surgery last August. He signed a more affordable version of the “one-year guarantee with an option” arrangement in Spring Training, though, and could be a factor in 2023.
While the focus will obviously be on the on-field moves the Dodgers have made, they also conducted some notable administrative business. In January, they promoted AGM Brandon Gomes to general manager. That solidified him as Friedman’s #2 in the front office hierarchy and warded off the potential for another team to poach him by offering that same title elsewhere, which the Mets were reportedly considering. During Spring Training, they signed Roberts to a three-year extension covering the 2023-25 campaigns. That kept their World Series-winning skipper from entering 2022 under a lame duck contract, and it positions him to eclipse ten years in that role.
The Dodgers have been a win-now team since before the start of Roberts’ tenure. They’ve done a remarkable job of backfilling the roster internally, maintaining a perennially strong farm system that affords the depth for prospect promotions and blockbuster acquisitions of players like Betts, Turner and Scherzer. Paired with an ownership group that’s willing to spend for marquee free agent talent, they’ve orchestrated a more consistent run of recent success than any other franchise in the league.
That’s showing no signs of slowing down, and while teams like the Giants and Padres should push them at the top of the division, the Dodgers are among the handful of teams most likely to win the World Series in 2022. That’s more or less the tier they’ve occupied for a decade, and the long-term window is as open as ever.
Muncy needs to get his head right. Costly errors just won’t do.
Send him to single A. Teach him a lesson.
He’s expendable now and he knows it.
That’s a BS comment. It was a flooky play on a hot and humid afternoon. It’s not as he is careless on defense. It happens.
Right? I swear you guys act liem they’re in last place? Last I checked they’re in 1st and doing pretty well. Also they had opportunities during the game to score so let’s not act like the whole game is based of that one singular play. I’ll take Muncy in my lineup any day. He’s hitting the ball hard just at people. He’s still not striking out a lot and walks a ton. Eventually they’ll drop
Struggling to compete with The Bronx Bombers.
It’s something we will have to get use too a little bit.
2b and 3b are going to be pretty rough here in the future. Lux Muncy Rios Busch and Vargas are all looking well below avg fielders
It’s why I pondered a Eugenio Suarez trade this offseason. Not sure if his defense has slipped recently but he use to be pretty solid
In an odd way I almost think the lack of inf defense keeps Bellinger 110% cemented on this team the next 2 years b/c of his stellar D in CF. Wouldn’t have said that 90 days ago
What,Did he make 1 error in 1 game therefore he’s now a liability ?
Offseason In Review: Steal franchise cornerstone First Baseman from under Braves’ nose.
Atlanta let freeman go this will play out better for Atlanta in 3-4 seasons than it would if they kept him
Freeman escaped. Noone “let him go”.
In 3~4 seasons ? Do we read a book in the meantime?
Now I get Braves Pivot etc etc kudos and well played……… But…… Freeman wanted to come to LA it’s pretty much as simple as that and ATL Surely knew this early on
Good job on Freeman’s agent team getting max tho from Lad, Dodgers never seem to drop a hard hammer even when the player wants to be here. Perhaps California taxes have a little to do with that
Yeah look at his replacement. OOOPS
It’s articles like this that really remind me that I’m lucky to be a Dodgers fan. I grew up in LA and have been going to games since I was a child. Of course, we had to deal with the McCourt era but since new ownership took over, this is the model franchise in all of sports.
It’s not just the ability to spend money, (there’s a few organizations that are spending what the Dodgers are) but the ability to spend that kind of money and constantly be in contention while infusing the team with young talent. It’s really amazing to watch. And let’s not forget, this division isn’t easy. The Giants have 3 World Series wins in the last 12 years, not to mention the 107 wins last year, the Padres are looking like real contenders even without Tatis (scary team when he gets back), and both the Dbacks and Rockies aren’t going away quietly).
I love watching this team win, but it’s more than that. It’s knowing that each season, this ownership group is doing everything in it’s power to win now, while also keeping it’s eyes on the future. And I know, not every team can do what the Dodgers do, which is why I say that all Dodger fans are lucky, but still, it’s always fun to watch.
I’m loving this team, the ownership, and the future that the team has. Looking forward to what should be a deep playoff run and many more after it.
And don’t forget Fox. That period of ownership was even more abysmal than McCourt in its own way. So longtime Dodger fans have seen the worst of it too. I haven’t always been completely sold on the current ownership’s approach, but we are indeed fortunate as Dodger fans that the money we spend on the team goes towards building a perennial competitor. A lot of team owners could do the same, they just don’t.
What does it take to be “sold”? Not QO’ing Kershaw was a class move which a lot of clubs won’t do for their own franchise icons. They’ve also handled the Bauer debacle really well as a unit and it could’ve easily been lot messier.
You mean, always completely sold? If that’s your question (since that was my statement), the answer is, they’ve cheaped out on relief pitching in the past and it cost them some postseason advances. They’re putting more of their resources into that area in the last few. So, better. I wasn’t going to bring up Bauer but since you did, overlooking his history to sign him was a mistake and one that proved costly. The way they’ve handled this situation was to be MIA. Probably this was the best/only way they could, since it was out of their hands entirely and doing otherwise would expose them to potential legal liabilities.
Fox was indeed horrific as well
I mean we were a bad run organization for over 20 years Sure a little money coated over the rot some years but it was bad for a long long time and people have forgotten so quickly.
Feels like most posters think our success dates back further than it does,, hell even those first playoff bound teams from the 8 in a row stretch weren’t all that great and always had major holes especially in the pen
The drafting/scouting/development has always been there tho. . That’s our backbone, and why Imo we are so so lucky to be Dodger fans. Throw in a good front office finally and well ….let’s just enjoy the fruits today
Good take. The Dodgers have both the financial means to add whatever the team needs now and the foresight and brain power to keep talent coming in for the future. We kind of always wondered what would happen if you took the Yankees money and added the Rays front office. Now we know: the modern day Dodgers.
The big advantage is the money factor very few teams could afford Cody Bellinger salary with the numbers he has been putting up. Dodgers lucky to have money to give him another year to try and figure things out again.
The dodgers through have to get to figuring things out 2-3 years from now when the prospects loads they have given up for trades start being missed in the system to fill holes.
This isn’t true. Some teams billionaires are just cheaper than others.
It’s a combination of wealthy teams with very smart leadership. The wealth of the owners has very little to do with it. The revenue a team takes in has everything to do with it. Teams like LA take in much more revenue that teams like Pit, or Cincy.
Having that revenue, and a top flight FO like LA has, makes for the powerhouse team they are now. Not a Dodger fan, in fact I’m about the farthest thing from it, but I have to respect what Friedman has done there. They’re a scary team for the rest of MLB.
Money definitely gives them a bigger margin for error. The Brewers would have cut Bellinger. The Dodgers can afford to give him a chance. So far that chance hasn’t panned out for the team, but it hasn’t cost them any opportunities either.
They’ve been able to extend their key pieces when they want to. Smaller market clubs, even the best run, generally can’t do that.
Yes, it takes a lot of money to operate the way the Dodgers do. However, to see a team commit their resources to winning and take advantage of those advantages is admirable.
Dodger fans paid years ago when their ownership locked horns with the cable TV companies and refused to sign a deal. Most Dodger fans in area couldn’t watch them play much on TV that year (or two – I forget, I’d left LA). They got the contract they wanted and the fans happily pay for the service. That generates an astronomical amount of revenue.
What the Dodgers have going for them that no other franchise has is this – a large population many of which are from Mexico. Latin America, and Caribbean countries. Unlike Americans that mainly play baseball on a computer, many of those people grew up playing it day and night (along with soccer). They don’t find the game “boring” and don’t primarily follow it by looking at statistics. Rather they want to watch the game – in person and on media devices. They understand the subtleties that statistics don’t reflect and and how that affects a games outcome. Add in many that enter America from Japan and Korea that also love and understand the sport. While primarily Caucasians are shown sitting behind the home plate area when Dodger games are broadcast, attending a game one can see that the majority of the rest of the crowd are minorities……including a nice percentage of females.
Ownership knew the fan base / market. It was amazing that the other post-O’Malley owners had no clue.
For the record… once the Dodgers sold their broadcast rights to Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum) the providers who could carry the games on TV wasn’t up to the Dodgers. For many years TWC/Spectrum was unable to make a deal with the others for reasons that were never made fully known to us. Maybe the Dodgers could have done more to break that logjam but nobody who says that seems to know exactly what they should have done, short of not taking TWC’s money. Which, they already had.
Bellinger has already put up 1.1 WAR in 40 games this year, much of it due to his speed and elite defense. There are signs of late that his bat coming around, he’s on pace for a more than reasonable season for his salary.
Publishing this two months into the season? Lol. Perhaps in March would be more timely ⚾️
Not sure if you’re a regular MLBTR reader, but they publish these every year. The Dodgers were the last in the series this off-season. Of course the lockout pushed the timeline off as well.
How I was going respond. I never recall not being done prior to season. They had to wait till after lockout.
Yeah, this is the first time I remember some of these coming out this late in the regular season. It obviously takes a lot of in depth analysis and it’s tough to do that when teams are still making moves during a shortened ST.
Only the Dodgers could lose Max Scherzer and Corey Seager and actually get better.
In a nutshell love the restraint of the 1 yr deals-
Paving the way for the youth. This teams getting younger and it’s coming quick. We have recently been conservative in the passing of the torches and mostly a vetern team the last 7 years(ish) but I think 2023 we are going to see a lot of the youth and it’s going to be damn fun
That Kimbrel trade which I thought was mostly a net neutral ledger/roster gymnastics move preseason has really turned into a surplus boon today as well. Always nice to catch a break
Los Karens are stocked up and ready for another good season and another year of crying and complaining about 2017.
Good one lady! You got ‘em
Wake me up when they play a healthy 500+ team. Everything else is just marketing.
Wake up! They are 11-3 against >.500 teams, which happens to currently be the best record in baseball against winning teams. Of course your “argument” is those teams were “unhealthy” at the time (as if). Everything in your case is just, well…
Adding in AZ at the last minute, huh? Nevermind the fact that they’ll probably drop back below 500 again tomorrow. But sure, hang the banner for being able to temporarily include them.
You miss the point entirely, as usual, bc it doesn’t line up with the media shill narratives you push. That point, by the way, is that LAD’s had one of the league’s softest schedules. B-b-but the Diamondbacks!!
After this series w/ the tanking Nats, 16 of LAD’s first 33 games will have been vs PIT, CHC, WAS, DET, & CIN (ie, 5 of the 7 worst teams in MLB). With their 8th, 9th, 10th, & 11th games vs AZ to follow, then the World Series contending Pirates again. Amazing gauntlet.
I can’t miss the point, because you haven’t made a point. You are just rambling on incoherently. As usual.
I’m sure the team that has the most wins over the last decade and won 106 games last year is just winning this year because of a soft early schedule. That run differential of +97 in 41 games certainly means nothing too.
This guy seems to be angry about something. He posts the same effluent in every article on the Dodgers.
Another bad faith response; not surprising. Check any reliable strength of schedule metric & notice who’s at the bottom. Nobody’s saying the Dodgers suck, but they’ve had a cupcake schedule.
@differentbears RE run differential, who cares? SD only has +30 & they’re a half-game back of LA. NYY has +65 & they’re a half-game ahead. See how this works?
The troll expects a good faith response. Hilarious.
Forewent. Bold!
Verily, methinks.