2016 Dodgers in Review: 2B Chase Utley

Chase Utley (Photo: Stacie Wheeler) PA AVG OBP SLG wRC+ HR WAR MLB 565 .252 .319 .396 97 14 2.0 What happened in 2016: Started the season strong but faded pretty noticeably down the stretch.

Chase Utley came to the Dodgers at the 2015 trade deadline and signed with them as a free agent during the offseason. Brim did a good job recapping Utley’s 2016 in his post about the Dodgers re-signing the veteran this offseason (oops, spoiler alert for 2017 status):

Utley played regularly last season, and on the full-season balance he did pretty well, hitting .252/.319/.396 (97 wRC+) in 565 plate appearances. He put up exactly 2 fWAR, which probably overrated his defense, but he had a very respectable…