Coaches that lead talented teams rarely get their due in sports. There may be no finer example of that than Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. Throughout his tenure with the Dodgers, Roberts has suffered the slings and arrows of each playoff failure. Doc was taught that lesson very early on from the late, great Tommy Lasorda.
In a piece in The Athletic by Andrew McCullough, Roberts discussed the advice Lasorda gave him in 2016. It was Doc’s first season at the helm in LA.
“When things go well, the players get all the credit and then when things go bad, it’s your fault.