The team didn’t take anyone to an arbitration hearing from 1999 and 2017, but have with five ever since. Three more may join that club.
Kopech missed the entire 2019 season after Tommy John surgery and opted out of the 2020 season during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For years, the Los Angeles Dodgers shouldered criticism for being a big-market team that “bought stars but choked in October.” Even their 2020 World Series title, achieved during a pandemic-shortened ...