Notes: Dodgers ruining baseball, Rio Foster, arena rumors

The Dodgers’ attitude toward the regular season is a problem, Arte Moreno needs to open up his considerable wallet, and what’s going on with Bill Chisholm’s arena desire.

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Not like that, though

Baseball Prospectus published a piece on Tuesday, written by Craig Goldstein, that explained how the Dodgers are ruining baseball. Not in the offseason “oh no, a team is spending money!” way that the worst columnists you know latched onto last winter, however.

Goldstein explained that the way the Dodgers treat the regular season — with bored indifference, as a preamble to the postseason they expect to get to as a baseline — is what’s causing problems.

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The question isn’t ‘Can the Angels keep Ohtani?’ but ‘Will they?’

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Buster Olney’s latest for ESPN (Insider subscription required) asks the question, “Can the Angels keep Shohei Ohtani?” with the implication from the second part of the headline “A payroll crisis looms in Los Angeles” being that the question is really “Can the Angels afford to keep Shohei Ohtani?” Yes. Yes they can. Alright, see you all next week.

OK fine let’s get into this.

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