With the 2019 MLB season finally coming to a close with the Washington Nationals defeating the Houston Astros in the World Series, the offseason has begun. Andrew Friedman and the Dodgers’ front office face a lot of questions that allow for a variety of answers.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the postseason was the Washington Nationals and how they took the league’s oldest roster that also had one of the league’s worst bullpens and somehow managed to beat the 106 winning Dodgers in the NLDS and the 107 winning Astros in the World Series.
The current trend of a successful team in the postseason up until this point was a dominant bullpen and a young roster.