MLB writer makes brutal declaration about the Dodgers offseason moves | rssama.com

Fresh of winning nan 2024 World Series championship, nan Los Angeles Dodgers seemed to only get stronger this past offseason. 

After piecing together their starting rotation done overmuch of their postseason run, nan Dodgers took large swings successful free agency, inking two-time Cy Young Award victor Blake Snell to a five-year,$180 cardinal woody and bringing successful Japanese superstar Roki Sasaki. The bullpen besides looked to beryllium improved pinch nan signings of left-hander Tanner Scott (1.75 ERA successful 2024) and Kirby Yates (1.17 ERA), and nan nine re-signed slugger Teoscar Hernández and postseason leader Tommy Edman to their potent discourtesy while adding outfielder Michael Conforto.

Sixty games into nan 2025 season, however, and it’s difficult to state immoderate of these signings a success. The oft-injured Snell made conscionable 2 starts earlier landing connected nan injured database pinch a enarthrosis injury, and Sasaki and Yates later joined him aft disappointing early-season performances. Scott, meanwhile, has remained patient but has seen his ERA balloon to 4.55 and blowing 5 saves successful his first 26 appearances. And while Hernández has been his accustomed productive aforesaid speech from a little stint connected nan injured list, Edman has posted a .584 OPS since April 19, and Conforto has been a disaster each play long. 

It’s uncommon to spot a squad arsenic well-run arsenic nan Dodgers whiff connected truthful galore marquee additions, which is why Kerry Miller declared them nan “biggest losers” of nan offseason. 

No 1 is going to shed a tear for nan reigning World Series champions, who are sitting 13 games supra .500 pinch a full payroll (including their aforementioned $156 cardinal taxation bill) of $562 cardinal that much than exceeds nan mixed $494.5 cardinal payroll of nan 5 stingiest teams: nan Pirates, Athletics, Rays, White Sox and Marlins,” Miller wrote. “But, man, their large offseason moves person not gone according to plan.”

To beryllium adjacent to nan Dodgers, immoderate of their insignificant moves, for illustration nan signing of Korean Baseball Organization prima Hyesong Kim, person paid early dividends, and nan capacity of superstars Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith and Yoshinobu Yamamoto person kept them atop nan National League West. Yet if nan Dodgers want to clasp disconnected nan San Diego Padres and compete pinch nan juggernaut New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs, they will request to get acold much accumulation from their postulation of imported stars. 

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