Los Angeles Dodgers: Players that will disappoint in 2020
By Jason Reed
The Los Angeles Dodgers may have one of the deepest rosters of all-time, but the team is still going to be prone to some disappointing performances.
The Los Angeles Dodgers set a franchise record in wins last season with 106 and somehow made the team even better. While the Dodgers lost Hyun-Jin Ryu, Rich Hill, Russell Martin, David Freese, Kenta Maeda and Alex Verdugo, they gained Mookie Betts, David Price, Alex Wood, Brusdar Graterol and Blake Treinen.
The only significant losses were Ryu and Verdugo, and it is safe to say that they were made up for. While Ryu had a tremendous 2019 season, his age and health concerns made him too expensive of a signing and the Dodgers will replace his production with Price, Wood and Julio Urias all having better seasons in 2020, or so we hope.
Verdugo was a great young outfielder that is a future all-star, but in return, the Dodgers got one of the best players in all of baseball to give the team perhaps the best outfield in baseball.
It is a good time to be a Dodger fan and waiting for the regular season to begin is unbearable.
We already broke down five Dodgers that we think are going to smash expectations in 2020, but it cannot all be positive. There are naturally going to be players that disappoint in 2020, that do not live up to the expectations that are placed upon them.
We pinpointed three players, and ironically, they are all position players. The Dodgers’ pitching is so deep that it was hard to see there being any significant disappointment in that regard.