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Dodgers News: Dave Roberts Envisions Cody Bellinger And Max Muncy As Everyday Players In 2019

Perhaps no team has embraced platooning more than the Los Angeles Dodgers in the last few years as most of their left-handed hitters have not proven capable of consistently hitting same-side pitching.

Cody Bellinger was an everyday player for the Dodgers in 2017 when he set a National League Rookie record with 39 home runs en route to unanimously winning the Rookie of the Year Award.

But Bellinger regressed in 2018, particularly against left-handed pitching, so by the second half of the season he was essentially relegated to just facing righties.

While he fell victim to a platoon in 2018, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said at the Winter Meetings that he envisions Bellinger playing every day in 2019.