LOS ANGELES — The way baseball's trade deadline played out Tuesday, one might confuse Andrew Friedman for a Dodgers starting pitcher. The Dodgers, one standout starting pitcher from being a World Series favorite, didn't get that starting pitcher. A team whose rotation just suffered through the worst month in Los Angeles Dodgers history — that 6.18 July ERA is not a misprint — did not improve that rotation. This was how he built a team that went to three World Series in four years and won a COVID-shortened championship in 2020. The Dodgers needed some standout starting pitching, yet Andrew Friedman couldn't acquire any, and so a team that has so often been lifted by the trade deadline has once again been crushed by it.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 02, 2023 07:25 UTC