The Dodgers have been good for a long time. Really good. But it became painfully apparent that they were missing one piece to the championship puzzle. In February of last year, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman went out and traded for that piece.
2018 AL MVP Mookie Betts was a revelation in his first season in Dodger blue. And he says he really wasn’t even that good in his own eyes. But it’s hard to deny the game-changer that Mookie was for LA last season. It’s also hard to explain just how important he was for the team.