It’s easy to assume that Mookie Betts fit in with the Dodgers right away, but the truth is that he didn’t. After an offseason of trade rumors, he arrived at Camelback Ranch in February and immediately faced a few challenges: He didn’t know where the bathroom was. All his gloves were trimmed in Red Sox scarlet. And he didn’t entirely like what he saw from his new teammates.
Los Angeles had been to the World Series twice in the previous three years. It had lost both times. Betts thought he might be able to do something about that.