My opinion-others can weigh in with their own: Dodger's vulnerability lies in their bullpen. Their closer is somehow totally unreliable this year-whether its related to his heart issues or whatever. This afternoon he gave up two -that's two-home runs in the ninth. Kershaw -who for years has been the ace of the staff and either the best or close to the best in all of baseball seems to have lost a great deal of his skills. Last year both Kershaw and Jansen were the tops in the majors. This year their not even close. The Dodgers two best starters are Hyun-Jin Ryu and a 12 yr old rooking Walter Buehler.
As far as hitting goes the Dodgers have real "power" throughout their lineup. That is their primary strength. Their right up their with the Yankees as far as leading the majors in home runs. Their weakness has been in getting people on the bases to score. So their big strength is the home run and Buehler but he can only pitch once every 4-5 days. IMO it will be surprising if the home run can take them to the WS once again.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/01/2018 05:00PM by waterfield.
