Preller made a 24-hour run at Aaron Judge. When Turner instead chose Philadelphia, Seidler and general manager A.J. The Padres, after advancing to the NLCS and falling to the Phillies, courted former Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner in free agency.
In August, during an in-game interview on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball,” Padres owner Peter Seidler described the Dodgers as “the dragon up the freeway that we’re trying to slay.” Two months later, Seidler’s team pulled off an upset that emboldened him to try even harder to upend the future of the NL West. Lin: For a franchise that had been deprived of notable postseason success, it’s difficult to overstate the significance of those four games. Five rookies have appeared this season, with more to come. The Dodgers boast a wave of young talent that The Athletic’s Keith Law ranked as the top farm system in baseball in consecutive seasons and are giving players opportunities to perform. Tyler Anderson parlayed his strong season, which earned him a postseason start, into a multi-year deal in Anaheim. Justin Turner has joined fellow Dodgers ex-pats Kenley Jansen, Enrique Hernández and Alex Verdugo in Boston. Cody Bellinger, benched before that pivotal Game 4, was non-tendered and is off to a good start for the Cubs. Trea Turner flirted with San Diego before signing for $300 million with the Phillies. That in itself did not dictate the wave of change the roster saw over the winter, but the result is the same: This is a different club. He’d spent the immediate time after the loss fleeing his San Diego-area home and vacationing in London and Barcelona to clear his head, telling The Athletic this spring, “We left money on the table last year.” “I will say that you look at that dugout versus our dugout, there was more intensity there,” Roberts conceded at the Winter Meetings. But then again, this situation drew some parallels to 2019, when the Dodgers led baseball with 106 wins just to be upended by the wild-card Nationals. Some of it can be attributed to the randomness of small samples that was only heightened over four games. That is something the organization has had to grapple with. How could a team that won 111 games and dominated the Padres throughout the regular season lose in four games? The Dodgers got outplayed in a way they simply hadn’t been almost all year. (Orlando Ramirez / USA Today) What came out of that playoff series?Īrdaya: A lot of reflection, for one. As the Dodgers and Padres cross paths again, this will be the first test for two of baseball’s biggest spenders.
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