It’s all that everyone’s been talking about—with good reason. What many followers of the Dodgers have considered to be the team’s biggest weakness all year long is finally proving to be true. It took an illness from the team’s All-Star closer to prove, but what folks are now learning is that Kenley Jansen was the single cog which was seemingly holding the entire Los Angeles relief corps together.
After the bullpen’s latest debacle—a 3-2 walkoff loss at the hands of Ryan McMahon and the Rockies—the initial instincts of fans were to point fingers at almost every imaginable entity in the organization.