Dodgers: Ranking the team’s most untouchable pieces

The average team has one or two players that they would be hard-pressed to move. A legit argument can be made that the Dodgers are fortunate to have multiple players you can consider “untouchable.”

The Dodgers have one of the best rosters in baseball and to have one, you will need some elite players. Los Angeles has players that are among the best at their respective positions and young players with elite talent that are vital to the franchise’s future.

Most of their value comes from their numbers that contribute to LA’s winning ways. However, some of these players’ meaning to the team goes beyond just statistics.

This description describes the players that the Dodgers cannot afford to give up because it would be nearly impossible to replace their production and overall value.

Today we will look at the five (everyone loves round numbers) most “Untouchables” that the Dodgers have on their roster right now.

Honorable Mention: Kenley Jansen

Six players should be off-limits in my opinion, but for the sake of the article, I had to leave one off.  And it was hard to exclude Jansen.

All I can say is that other than Andrew Miller, no other reliever can challenge Jansen for the title of “Best Reliever in Baseball” at the moment.

What more can you say about Jansen? He has a 1.13 ERA in 16 innings to go along with 32 strikeouts and zero walks. Yes, zero. He has an absurd 18 strikeouts per nine innings rate and is striking out a ridiculous 53.3% of batters faced. Oh, and he has a -0.96 FIP, which I’ll admit, did not know was possible.

He can enter high leverage situations before the ninth inning and go more than one inning. Not many, other than Miller, can do the same. However, he is a closer, and elite closers are easier to replace than elite position players.