Take comfort, the Dodgers are moving backwards

All things considered, this is a relatively optimistic San Francisco Giants article, so let me kick it off with a healthy dose of bad news: the Los Angeles Dodgers will be very good in 2022. They might even be great.

I say this because the Dodgers are a very good organization with very good players and a crew of people who make very good baseball decisions. I say this because the Dodgers have occupied the spectrum between “very good” and “great” for 10 straight seasons now.

That gives you a justifiable reason to worry. The Giants had to squeeze every last drop out of their 2021 season, finishing with a franchise record in wins, just to best the Dodgers by a single game in the regular season.…