The Dodgers are tied for the best record so far in the NL West at 3-1. They’ve also embodied quite a few of the major ongoing debates about baseball’s aesthetic virtues (or vices, depending on whom you ask)—everything the game might need to fix, or preserve, or test out in the Atlantic League. Here, then, is a Rorschach test for modern baseball. It could seem like what’s going right in today’s game. It could seem like what’s going wrong. It could seem like a bunch of meaningless splotches without any greater significance. Regardless, it’s what’s been going on with the Dodgers:
Too Many (Or Just Enough?