The LA Dodgers, Your 2014 World Series Champs

Hello,

Last season I wrote a blog about nearly every Dodgers game, but sadly that took up too much time. I decided not to do that this season, but I still plan on checking in with the Dodgers occasionally on this blog.

After 4 games, here's the Dodgers good and bad:

Good:

1) The Dodgers are 3-1 and are first place in the NL West.

2) L.A. returns Yasiel Puig, who will play his first full season in MLB. Puig hit a two run homer Tuesday, that was the Dodgers big blow.

3) L.A. welcomes back Hanley Ramirez, playing in a contract year.

4) The Dodgers have that great pitching staff, even though they have 3 starters on the DL. However the Dodgers still have Zack Greinke, Hyun Jin-Ryu and maybe Dan Haren can give them something this year.

Bad:

1) Are we gonna do this again LA? Through 4 games the Dodgers have only scored 14 runs, that's only an average of 3.5 runs per game. That's not terrible, but they scored 7 of those runs in one game. I'm more concerned about the two games they only scored 3 runs and the 1 game they only scored 1 run. Having the same inept offense as last season will not be enough for the Dodgers to win the World Series, I don't care how good the pitching is. The same team that scored the most runs last season was also the same team that won the World Series, the Boston Red Sox. No, I don't think that was a coincidence.

2) Speaking of which, the Dodgers have over $60 million in injured players sitting on the disabled list. That includes Josh Beckett and Chad Billingsley, honestly if the Dodgers get anything significant out of either one of those pitchers, I'll consider that a small miracle. I cannot wait until the Dodgers can dump Beckett and his $17 million dollar contract.

Also Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers best pitcher, will be out 2 to 3 weeks more. Aargh!

3) I know it's only 4 games in the season, so I'm not panicking too much. These are some of the most important Dodgers and their current batting averages: Hanley Ramirez, .067, Adrian Gonzalez, .077, Andre Ethier 1.33, A.J. Ellis .167 and Carl Crawford .222. Also Matt Kemp hasn't played this season yet, but there's some talk that he may be able to play for the Dodgers home opener on Friday.

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