The Dodgers head into the offseason facing at least a handful of questions, with nine players heading into free agency and team option or non-tender decisions to make on several others. Next year’s team could look significantly different than the team that won 111 games in the regular season before flaming out in the NLDS.
Over at The Athletic, they dug into each team’s biggest need between now and the start of the 2023 season. Dodgers beat writer Fabian Ardaya acknowledges the need for a starting shortstop, but he says the team’s top priority is somewhere else:
First is restoring their depth in the starting rotation, which looks much thinner with Clayton Kershaw and Tyler Anderson as free agents, and with Walker Buehler not expected to pitch in 2023 as he rehabs from a second Tommy John surgery.