All Aboard

The Sun-Times ran Bob Nightengale’s USA Today column today. Talk about jumping on the bandwagon. You see, the Dodgers have an “embarrassment of riches” with their starting pitching, so much so “The excitement has permeated the entire organization,” all the way down to ex-White Sox closer Micheal Kopech, who says, “The talent in here is just incredible.” Did I mention Kopech may not be ready until early April because of right-forearm inflammation? Or Clayton Kershaw until May? Or that Shohei Ohtani won zero games for the Dodgers last year, the same number of career wins Roki Sasaki has? Or that Yoshinobu Yamamoto suffered a strained rotator cuff last season? Or that newly-acquired Blake Snell is 32 and had an injury-marred 2024? Or that fellow starters Tanner Scott and Tyler Glasnow are 30-plus? Nightengale seems to have missed all that. Must be the rose-colored glasses.