In all the commotion over Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, you might have forgotten there were any other players available. But pitchers and catchers report in six weeks, and there are still a lot of good free agents out there, and the Dodgers can’t possibly sign all of them. There are enough that you could make a pretty good team out of them. has attempted to do just that. First, the pitching staff:
Starting pitchersBlake Snell
Last year’s National League Cy Young winner can be dominant: He led the sport with a 2.25 ERA and 5.8 hits allowed per nine innings in 2023. But Snell has thrown a pitch in the eighth inning only five times in his nearly eight-year career, and in the seventh only 36 times. Teams know what they will get from him. The question is what they want to pay for that.