Richard takes stock of how the Dodgers' off-season is looking so far, a couple weeks after the team's World Series victory. We focus on one player the Dodgers might gain (the young Japanese flame-thrower, Roki Sasaki) and one they might retain (the wide-smiling, big-slugging 2024 Dodgers All Star, Teoscar Hernandez) through free agency this winter. If you like Dodger Blue Dream, please make a contribution to the show on Patreon. We have a goal of reaching 50 paid supporters by Thanksgiving. We need your help.
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It's time for Dodger Baseball Every baseball season ends in tragedy.
Every season.
Even the one where the Dodgers win the World Series.
Because we know this group of guys, our beloved boys in blue can't all stay together.
Free agency is a sad fact of every single offset season and it will break your heart.
The list of Dodger players from the 2024 World Series winning team that are not under contract for 2025 is filled with favorites.
There's Walker Bueller Butane, the right handed stud who struggled his way back after his second Tommy John surgery and became a key piece of our deep postseason run and even dramatically appeared on the mound for the bottom of the ninth inning in Game five final three outs of the season to win the World Series.
Next on the list of Dodger free agents, Jack Flaherty, the trade deadline pickup and Burbank native who did so much to help the Dodgers get to the postseason during the second half of the year.
And who could forget Jack's Erewhon Smoothie, $21 of coconut collagen laced bliss.
The next name on the list is Enrique Quique Hernandez, our own personal Mr.
October.
Quique just changed his Instagram profile pic from a headshot of him with a Dodgers cap on to one with him wearing a cap with a question mark instead of a logo.
Then there is fan favorite Mariachi Joe Kelly, the Flame throwing wild man trash talker Blake Trinen, our nastiest and most dominant pitcher all the way through the World Series.
He's a free agent too.
I'll give you two more names and they are doozies.