NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - Brian Dozier’s whirlwind 2016, spawned by a record-setting 42-home run season for the Minnesota Twins, found him in an unlikely place Monday night at baseball’s winter meetings — seated on a couch next to the greatest pitcher in the game, who had just one question on his mind.
Are you going to be my second baseman?
Dozier, the former Southern Miss star and one of the top five trade targets on the winter trade market, does not know where he will play in 2017. That’s why his small talk with Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw at an Under Armour event marking its partnership with Major League Baseball was a bit more significant.