ATLANTA — The hierarchy of stars was obvious even in the table arrangements.
At an All-Star Game media day event on Monday at the Roxy Coca-Cola Theater in Atlanta, the Dodgers’ five All-Star representatives were in the same area of the large venue.
In the first row, basking under large spotlights near an elevated stage, Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Clayton Kershaw were positioned front-and-center, expected to attract so many reporters that retractable ropes lined the perimeter of their podiums.
Several feet behind them, in the shadows of a balcony overhang, sat Will Smith and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.