Despite assurances from president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman the Los Angeles Dodgers were in position to spend however they saw fit, and manager Dave Roberts describing their approach as being more aggressive than years past, free agency has been an unmitigated disaster.
The Dodgers had been connected to each of this winter’s top free agents — Gerrit Cole, Anthony Rendon and Stephen Strasburg — and missed on all three. Granted, Stephen Strasburg re-signing with the Washington Nationals was long considered the likely outcome.
The Dodgers reportedly were aggressive in their bidding for Cole, whom it’s believed their entire focus was on before he signed a record-breaking nine-year contract with the New York Yankees.