Within the downtime earlier than the World Collection, issues have been loudest down in San Diego and up in San Francisco because the Padres admitted one other defeat and despatched supervisor Bob Melvin up north for no purpose aside from he and GM A.J. Preller couldn’t get alongside anymore. Preller has that drawback with individuals…

For the Dodgers, it’s the calm earlier than what ought to be a loud offseason of roster exercise. The entrance workplace is anticipated to function on all cylinders as they appear to enhance the group in a approach that helps them recover from the playoff hump.

Our Doug McKain has stayed lively together with his every day Dodgers discuss present on our YouTube Channel, relating all the newest rumors and including some ideas on the group can enhance for 2024. He was joined by J.P. Hoornstra of the OC Register on Wednesday the place they talked about massive names like Dylan Stop, Yoshi Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani. In Hoornstra’s view, Yamamoto appears to suit the Dodgers’ plan age sensible and price sensible.

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Past these three names, the Dodgers have additionally been linked to some different massive identify stars, you’ll be able to learn all about them by means of the hyperlinks under.

My opinion: the highest names to observe this offseason are Yamamoto and Corbin Burnes.

In different Dodgers information, Mookie Betts lastly re-emerged on-line, posting on his Instagram web page for the primary time since LA’s NLDS loss to the Diamondbacks. The truth that he posted himself at a bowling alley definitely ruffled some feathers, nevertheless it’s his offseason and he actually deserves to get the hell away from baseball for a short while.

Absolutely an unpopular opinion.

Lastly, yet one more takeaway from Andrew Friedman and Brandon Gomes’ finish of season press convention from final week. One factor that was mentioned that’s form of resonated recently was Friedman talked about that he needs the membership was a bit of extra daring on the commerce deadline. After all, the Dodgers didn’t need to do sufficient to amass guys like Max Scherzer or Justin Verlander from the Mets and weren’t keen to pay as much as get Dylan Stop from the White Sox so that they settled on Lance Lynn.

After all, at the moment the membership although that Julio Urias can be out there to them in October and that Clayton Kershaw’s harm wasn’t as severe because it turned out to be…

A bit greater than 4 months till pitchers and catchers report.

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