At Dodger Stadium’s annual DodgerFest fan event on Saturday, Dodgers fans received their first glimpse of the team’s all-star 2025 roster.
The stadium’s parking lot celebration, which was held there while the ballpark was still being renovated, the seemingly endless line of cars pulling into Chavez Ravine, and the wild applause the defending World Series champions received a week before training camp began all suggested that the thousands of spectators enjoyed what they saw.
Pitcher Tyler Glasnow discussed a squad that has been strengthened by Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki, Tanner Scott, and others during a free-spending winter from the front office, comparing it to the Avengers and the Monstars [from the film Space Jam].
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The Dodgers entered this offseason hoping to improve their pitching options overall after seeing their redesigned pitching staff suffer greatly from injuries the previous season.
When we acquired Shohei [Ohtani] last year, first baseman Freddie Freeman repeated, and there is a lot of excitement right now.
On the brink of a new season, Saturday offered a few surprising developments among all that hype.
DodgerFest taught us the following five lessons: