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The self-confident, stay-as-they-are Dodgers did right by not panicking at the trade deadline and keeping the roster pretty much intact. This is still the same group of guys picked by most baseball experts to win a second straight championship.
The slumps will pass. The injuries will go away. Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani and the gang will be there at the end when it counts most.
Marty Zweben
Palos Verdes Estates
Though I don’t agree with his breathless, sky-is-falling sense of urgency, I do think Bill Plaschke is right that the Dodgers should have been more aggressive at the trade deadline. It’s a reasonable gamble to believe that their pitchers will stay healthy enough, their hitters will get untracked and Max Muncy will return and pick up where he left off. But it’s a gamble nonetheless. And if you’ve already sunk $400 million into your payroll, what’s another $10 million to $20 million for a playoff insurance policy: a proven closer and a better outfielder?
John Merryman
Redondo Beach
On Wednesday against the Reds, James Outman tried to do his best Denzel Clarke-Cedric Mullins imitation by trying to rob a homer. Unfortunately this final great effort typified Outman’s profession with the Dodgers, as it was one other case of “so close, but yet so far,” as the ball landed off the heel of Outman’s glove for a two-run triple.
The NL rookie of the month in April 2023 is a great athlete, but it was comprehensible why the Dodgers traded him.
Ken Feldman
Tarzana
Just a few hours before baseball’s commerce deadline Thursday, MLB Network dived into how nicely high minor league prospects across baseball have succeeded in the main leagues over the years, and it’s a fairly dismal share. Very few go on to profitable massive league careers, most just pop back and forth between the minors and majors, transfer from staff to staff, while many just fizzle out. They concluded that given the chance to garner a high quality main league participant, not to mention an All-Star by just utilizing your draft capital is a no-brainer. The Padres are one staff that firmly believes in this while the Dodgers at all times appear hesitant to do so.
They pointed to the Dodgers with an getting old Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy and a 31-year-old, at present healthy Shohei Ohtani that the time to win is now and that holding onto all their draft capital when it could possibly be used to immediately bolster the roster doesn’t traditionally or statistically make a lot sense.
Jerry Leibowitz
Culver City
Well the commerce deadline handed without a lot motion from the Dodgers. With their deep pockets, I believed they could have develop into the first group in MLB historical past to commerce for an total staff.
Joe Kevany
Mount Washington
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