Dodgers Report

The Season at a Glance:

The Dodgers May Have Finally Found the Balance
Shohei Ohtani Needs

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For the better part of two months, the conversation surrounding Shohei Ohtani has sounded a little like someone nervously checking the weather every fifteen minutes before a road trip.

Too many innings. Too many at-bats. Too much pressure. Too much swinging. Too much everything.
 

And somewhere underneath all of it sat the unavoidable reality that the Dodgers were attempting something baseball has never really seen handled at this scale before: asking the most talented player in the sport to simultaneously carry a lineup and front a rotation while trying to survive the marathon of another championship season.
 

Naturally, panic arrived right on schedule.

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