GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Dodgers’ final two steps to a championship had been eliminating the New York groups final October, and it’s exhausting to overlook how a lot of a greater February and March Los Angeles is having as nicely.
If the Fall Basic goes by Chavez Ravine, then spring coaching has not been type to the Yankees and Mets as compared with the opposite coastal superpower. No group has incurred extra worrisome accidents in amount and high quality this spring than the Yankees. A number of paces again are the Mets, forward of golf equipment such because the Orioles and Crimson Sox.
The Dodgers go away Wednesday for Tokyo to start their season March 18-19 vs. the Cubs. They seemingly will start the yr with probably the most gamers on the injured checklist, as they’ve 10 gamers, all pitchers, already sure for the IL. However they spent the offseason just about realizing that might be the case.
Thus, with their inner pitching machine and their exterior signings of Roki Sasaki, Blake Snell, Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates, they nonetheless may have the majors’ greatest pitching workers to open the season. And to be at their camp and see, for instance, Shohei Ohtani and Clayton Kershaw being ramped up is to know that the Dodgers have in-season alternate options close to.
