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This was not the Dodgers year, rationally speaking.
They lost 40% of the planned starting rotation for the season in April because of injuries to Hyun-Jin Ryu and Brandon McCarthy. Jimmy Rollins underperformed. Joc Pederson fell off a cliff offensively after a great first half. Yasiel Puig was in and out of the lineup with various injuries and looked like a shell of the star we’d seen the previous two years.
Yasmani Grandal, the prized return in the Matt Kemp trade and one of the best-hitting catchers in the league to start the year, was 6-for-94 (!) to finish the season because of a left shoulder injury he played through. The bullpen was better than last year but never inspired a huge amount of confidence.
