The Los Angeles Dodgers are boat-racing the National League West, enter play Tuesday with the best record in baseball and are on pace for a franchise-record 111 wins this season. The team doesn’t have many flaws, but their bullpen remains a glaring one.
It’s been a theme over the past few years and one Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and his front office have drawn plenty of criticism over. Of course, the Dodgers are hardly alone in not constructing a flawless bullpen.
Yet, the inexact science has often been the source of blame for the Dodgers’ shortcomings in the postseason.