Cody Bellinger deserves a special place in Dodgers history, but his return to Dodger Stadium serves as a reminder of what went wrong.
This was a blunder along the lines of the breakup of the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal. This was so preventable. This was so unnecessary.
Bellinger suffered a serious shoulder injury that required surgery. A different body required a new swing. The Dodgers spent the next two seasons trying to create that swing. Bellinger spent the next two seasons unable to fully process and execute their changes. This winter the Dodgers would have had to pay at least $18 million to keep him, and can you blame them for saying no? The previous two years he was arguably the worst hitter in baseball, with a .165 average in 2021 and a .265 on-base percentage last season and a fall from grace so steep, he was used only as a pinch-hitter in his final game in last year’s National League Division Series.
“I don’t want to talk about that right now … I don’t want to bring back ... I don’t want to talk about that stuff right now,” he said. His happy times here were indeed many. No Dodger had bigger moments in bigger games during the club’s 10-year run of greatness.What’s your favorite? Is it the go-ahead home run against the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 7 of the 2018 National League Championship Series? How about the leaping catch that saved the Dodgers in the 2020 NLDS against the Padres?
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