Bobby Evans might have gotten his wish. The day after the season, I asked the Giants’ general manager about keeping up with the Dodgers, he said, “We don’t want to keep up with them. We want to pass them.”
There’s this little matter of 162 games to determine the NL West, but if the Dodgers’ season is anything like their offseason to date, their run of division titles, now at three, will end.
They’ve been passively rotten on the hot stove, losing Zack Greinke, failing to sign David Price or Johnny Cueto, passing on Jordan Zimmermann and Jeff Samardzija and shelving a deal for Aroldis Chapman after learning of his involvement in a domestic-violence case.