Trayce Thompson is coming into the 2023 season with a little bit of an unknown position. Final 12 months, he burst onto the scene, and was one of many staff’s finest hitters for a superb stretch of the 12 months. He earned himself a beginning spot within the postseason, the place he in the end struggled (however he was removed from the one participant struggling).
However, with the lack of Cody Bellinger this offseason, you’d assume Thompson would have a transparent lower position as a starter. Nonetheless, he’s struggled early in spring, and hasn’t precisely proved that these few months of final 12 months weren’t a fluke.
However nonetheless, he’s getting the identical alternative as everybody else to compete, nevertheless, he’s taking a couple of weeks off to symbolize Nice Britain within the World Baseball Traditional. Whereas with the staff, he spoke to Alanna Rizzo on Excessive Warmth about what he’s enthusiastic about this season with the Dodgers — and he had some excessive expectations.
“Being a Dodger and carrying that uniform, the largest factor is the expectation,” Thompson stated. “And we count on to win a World Sequence yearly.”
The Dodgers enter each season with championship aspirations, however simply as soon as have they seen them come true. And this 12 months would be the first 12 months shortly the place they don’t enter the season as one of many greatest favorites — however perhaps it’s higher that means.
This 12 months, the Dodgers are nonetheless anticipated to be nice, however there are various extra unknowns. And many individuals assume they’re going to complete second within the NL West to the Padres.
Nevertheless it’s good to listen to Thompson make issues clear, as he and everybody else have one objective this season, and that’s to convey a World Sequence to Los Angeles. That is the primary 12 months shortly that they’re prone to be underdogs subsequent to another MLB powerhouses — however that could be precisely what they should succeed.
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