Now four of those five key players are free agents this winter, and the 36-year-old Turner is only under contract for one more year.Īll four free agents are likely to leave LA. Even taking into account that the Houston Astros cheated the Dodgers out of the 2017 World Series title, all those empty trips to the championship round took a lot, emotionally and spiritually, out of both the Boys in Blue and their hopelessly devoted fans.
The era when a core group of players headed by pitchers Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen, and infielders Corey Seager and Chris Taylor and Justin Turner were able to dominate the National League and make it to the World Series five times but emerge with only one title. The era when the Dodgers won eight straight Western Division championships but couldn’t win a ninth straight title this year ,despite tying the franchise record for wins with 106.
It was the end of a golden but ultimately disappointing era in Dodgers baseball. Saturday night’s disappointing and incredibly frustrating 4-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves in game six of the National League Championship Series was much more than just the end of a disappointing and incredibly frustrating season. Casey Pavlik hopes to lead the Mustangs into the playoffs, with a victory of Redondo on Friday.
