Under president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman the Los Angeles Dodgers have worked to gain any and every competitive advantage on a nightly basis, and that’s amounted to heavily relying on platoons at multiple positions.
The strategy most often applied to outfielders last season, with Kiké Hernnadez, Howie Kendrick, Joc Pederson, Trayce Thompson and Andrew Toles splitting starts, based on an opponent’s starting pitcher.
Yasiel Puig was also among those to lose a regular job, though it was more so due to a lack of production and the Dodgers’ desire to trade their mercurial outfielder. Unable to move Puig prior to the Aug.