Dodgers: Time to Change the Strategy and get Aggressive

The Dodgers are still quiet. Bryce Harper, Corey Kluber and more players are low hanging fruit on the tree of baseball and the Dodgers are yet to start picking from it. Is it because the costs of the players, either in prospects or money, are too high? Possibly. But, regardless, no progress has been made lately on any front.

This has felt like the mantra for the last few offseasons: trade away the bad contracts and stay reluctant, very reluctant, on the free agent market. As Andrew Friedman, the now stand-alone general manager of the Dodgers once said: “the track record is just not so good.” He was, of course, talking only about signing free agent relievers but lately, that ideology has rung…