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Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

can come in and kind of just quietly do what he needs to do.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Yeah.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

He's getting paid a boatload of money, but in the expectations are all there, but he can quietly focus on that stuff.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Right.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

And, and it, no matter how you look at it, the fact that a guy like Shohei Otani is just on your roster is already bananas, but then you look at kind of everything he does and you're just like, Oh, okay, cool.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

I can just quietly go about my business.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

And that's why I,

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

I honestly think Mookie is going to have a bounce back year.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Not, I don't know if it'll be like a, you know, an MVP caliber year.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Could it be maybe, you know, by, could it be all-star caliber?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Absolutely.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

I mean, Mookie has shown that he can play the position at a high level.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Like that's, that's an incredibly difficult position to play.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

You know, the office, I mean, and to your point, I had completely forgotten about the virus thing.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

If I'm not mistaken, he lost like 15 pounds or something like that.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

No, no, no.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

And, and so I think having, and I, and I think it's just important to emphasize that because also the Dodgers have obviously have something in the works for the future.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Cause they don't just look at this off season, next off season, however many, you know, they look several ahead to kind of see how they can, you know, you've taught, you've heard Andrew Friedman talk about it, going and getting X player to make it work with what they're looking at.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

And so, so I, you know,

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Again, looking to the future, that's that.