On the subject of the recent seat this season, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman is sitting atop a throne manufactured from ice.
It actually doesn’t matter what the Los Angeles Dodgers do that season. As a result of famous person Shohei Ohtani’s contract has an opt-out clause if both Friedman or controlling proprietor Mark Walter leaves the group, Friedman isn’t going wherever.
That stated, ESPN’s nationwide baseball reporter Buster Olney believes supervisor Dave Roberts must be watching the flames beneath his chair. If the season is deemed a failure, Roberts could possibly be the one out of a job — it absolutely received’t be Friedman.
“There may be monumental strain on Brian Cashman proper now, their (Yankees) normal supervisor,” Olney advised Doug McKain. “There’s monumental strain on (Yankees supervisor) Aaron Boone. Is there monumental strain on Andrew Friedman at this second? No. They don’t win the World Sequence, I don’t assume he has strain.
“Nonetheless, I do assume there’s numerous strain on Dave Roberts,” Olney continued. “I do assume, most likely as a result of as a supervisor who’s not making as a lot cash as Andrew, it’s loads simpler to alter the supervisor than some other spot. So I believe that strain level is on that supervisor spot for the Dodgers this yr.”
The Dodgers enter the second half with a cushty seven-game lead within the Nationwide League West. Nonetheless, they at present have six beginning pitchers on the injured checklist together with All-Star shortstop Mookie Betts and third baseman Max Muncy.
Los Angeles must be getting Clayton Kershaw and Tyler Glasnow again shortly after the break together with outfielder Jason Heyward. Betts, Muncy, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto doubtless will probably be again in August. That’ i’s why it isn’t time to hit the panic button but.
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