Dodgers: 5 things L.A. Should Not Do at the Winter Meetings

Next to the World Series and the July 31 trade deadline, baseball’s annual Winter Meetings are the most exciting time of the year for baseball fans, and Dodger fans in particular.

With Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi working their annual magic, odds are pretty darn good that the Dodgers will come away with a significant piece or two by the end of next week’s Meetings. Here are five things the Dodgers should not do at the Winter Meetings (and one thing they should):

Do not re-sign Yu Darvish

There aren’t a lot of top-tier starting pitchers on the market this off-season. Darvish, Jake Arrieta, Alex Cobb and Lance Lynn are among the top free agents available, while names like Chris Archer continually pop up in trade talk. But Yu Darvish is not a name the Dodgers should be focusing on.

In a previous post, we discussed some of Darvish’s numbers from 2017, and his climbing earned run averages in each of the past four seasons. Combine those numbers with the hundred million or so other numbers that follow a dollar sign, and taking a pass on Darvish would appear to be a no-brainer.

Would signing Darvish be the end of the world? No, but it would be a huge block to the “unless” part of No. 2 …

Next to the World Series and the July 31 trade deadline, baseball’s annual Winter Meetings are the most exciting time of the year for baseball fans, and Dodger fans in particular.

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