A baseball clubhouse feels different on Sept. 1. The expansion of rosters invites an influx of new players into the room — and that doesn’t include the last-minute acquisitions from the Aug. 31 trade deadline. As a contingent of eight new players joined the Dodgers on Saturday afternoon, David Freese noted the talent assembled around him and chuckled.
“Man, I walked in, and it felt like an All-Star game,” Freese said before Saturday’s game against Arizona.
Allow Freese a moment of hyperbole — while the Dodgers entered Saturday as a second-place team, the amount of talent in their clubhouse remains impressive.