There is no way to sugarcoat this, so I will just say it: “Andrew Friedman failed the Dodgers by not having starters stacked at least twelve deep.” At the start of the season, the Dodgers had Clayton Kershaw, Dustin May, Julio Urias, Tony Gonsolin, and Noah Syndergaard. Syndergaard was the guy that many (me included) would benefit from the Dodgers’ “Magic Fairy Dust” used to resurrect pitchers’ careers. It turns out that Noah was under the (dis) illusion that Mark Prior and Company would help him figure out how to throw 101 MPH again. That was his illusion.
A Lethal Dose of Reality
