In the abstract, the Dodgers just concluded a successful season.
They won 92 games, secured their third straight division title and went the distance with the New York Mets in the National League Division Series.
The vast majority of teams in Major League Baseball would take that season in a heartbeat, if given the choice at the open of spring training.
Given the reality of their hefty payroll and expectations, the Dodgers’ season was an unmitigated disaster.
And that is on first-year President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman and General Manager Farhan Zaidi, who inherited a very good, albeit subtly flawed roster last winter and proceeded to do the opposite of what they were hired to do.