The Dodgers are six video games right into a 2024 season. Followers’ satisfaction with the course of the crew following a $1.3 billion offseason spending spree definitely hasn’t worn off completely. However some grumblings of dissatisfaction are poking by way of the cracks of a 4-2 membership.
Some points are inspiring extra grumbling than others.
Entrance workplace
9 out of 10 followers approve of the entrance workplace. Fairly good, proper?
Positive, however take into account that within the earlier ballot that 90.4 p.c approval score was as much as 96.3 p.c. Possibly it’s merely more durable to see the holes in a crew that hasn’t performed a sport that counts than a crew that has performed two (polls have been performed after the Dodgers went 1-1 towards the San Diego Padres in South Korea.
Some followers have been nonetheless on the fence about Mookie Betts’ viability as an on a regular basis shortstop.
Place gamers
The Dodgers erupted for 11 runs of their second sport of the season. That may’ve been sufficient for a win, if Yoshinobu Yamamoto hadn’t gotten rocked in his solely inning of labor in his main league debut.
Even in addition to the shortstop outlook, it turns on the market have been loads of nits to choose. The drop in approval for place gamers was steeper than every other space of the crew — from 88.6% to 66.6%.
Beginning pitching
There’s no approach round it: some followers have been merely prepared to leap off the Yoshinobu Yamamoto bandwagon after one sport. Approval for this group fell from 87% to 72.% within the span of three weeks.
Bullpen
Approval for the reduction pitchers “solely” fell by 10 p.c, which could have been a direct results of the ten runs they allowed to the Padres in Sport 2.
Or not.
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