Dodgers Dugout: Will Matt Kemp make the Dodger roster?

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell and it's only 20 days until the season starts.

When the Dodgers traded Adrian Gonzalez, Brandon McCarthy and Charlie Culberson to the Atlanta Braves for Matt Kemp, the prevailing theory (one the Dodgers did not go out of their way to deny) was that Kemp would either be traded or released. Why? Because the deal was mainly about trading three bad contracts for one and the fact Kemp stopped being a good player about two years ago. His arthritic hip has left him virtually immobile on defense and his only value on offense is occasional power.

As the weeks went on, however, the Dodgers didn't release him and no one…