The Los Angeles Dodgers brought back many key names this past offseason — along with new additions to fortify the team — as the defending champions seemed poised to become baseball’s first back-to-back champions in a quarter-century.
Many fans remember anxiously waiting for outfielder Teoscar Hernández to re-sign with LA after a career-best season in home runs and WAR in what was one of his best offensive outputs of his career. The two-time All-Star recently revealed to Shi Davidi of Sportsnet how close he was to going back to the Toronto Blue Jays ahead of the 2025 campaign.