Stephen Nelson
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181 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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The easy, broad answer is to say just the relentless depth that they have in the organization.
And I know what haters or detractors or just critics of the Dodgers will say is like, okay, well, that's because of their massive payroll.
I would point them to actually this crop of all-stars because that is reflective of team building.
Of course, you have the big free agents, Shohei Ohtani, the biggest, did not participate because he just had his knee drained.
That's a unicorn stands alone.
Freddie Freeman was available for anybody.
The guy, the team that finished runner up for Freddie when the Braves kicked him to the curb was the Tampa Bay Rays.
So anybody could have had Freddie Freeman, the Dodgers have him.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, yes, he was given the biggest free agent contract for a pitcher in baseball history without throwing a single pitch in the States.
But that goes back to the Pacific Rim scouting and the relationship building that goes back years and years and years and years.
Andy Pajas, signed in 2017 as a kid out of Cuba for $300,000, was looked at as a bat-first corner outfielder, could never play center in the big league, did not have the body for it.
Tore his labrum in 2023, and you're like, all right, well, he's definitely going to be a corner guy now.
Redid his body and has worked his ass off at closing every hole and deficiency in his game for the last two years, and now he's a starting center fielder for the National League and the All-Star League.
In the worst postseason ever, offensively.
He was dreadful.
So again, every facet of the organization, drafting and developing, international free agency and scouting, what they pour into...
just health and nutrition medical side like no stone is unturned organization-wide so yes they put a lot of money in their payroll yes they pay an incredibly stupidly high CBT number but it's because they do all the little things on the margins you can talk about the money all you want but this is a this is a full-scale operation when when you look at this Dodgers team
Yeah.
Another piece of important context before answering this question is that folks have to understand how close...
they came to not winning any of these World Series, let alone back to back.
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