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SAN DIEGO \u2014 <\/span> <\/p>\n

Since taking over the Dodgers’ front office nearly a decade ago, Andrew Friedman has tried to strike a careful balance while constructing the club’s roster:<\/p>\n

Maximize the team’s chances of winning the World Series in each new season, while also maintaining its ability to remain a contender in the years to come.<\/p>\n

Call it the doctrine of sustained success; the belief that championship windows don’t have to swing from completely open to all the way closed, but can rather be pried open permanently through shrewd top-to-bottom organizational execution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve seen a lot of large-market teams compete over a short period of time, and then fall off a cliff,\u201d Friedman said during this week’s annual winter meetings in San Diego, where his calculated philosophies were under the microscope again.<\/p>\n

While many teams indulged in a nearly unprecedented spending spree, the Dodgers stuck to their principles and kept a tight grip on their purse strings.<\/p>\n

They engaged in negotiations with several big-name players but didn’t splurge in an inflated market that has already seen more than $2 billion of guaranteed money dolled out.<\/p>\n

It’s not that the Dodgers couldn’t use another splashy signing, with an experienced starting pitcher, a defensively capable center fielder and a potential new shortstop all on their offseason wish list.<\/p>\n

It’s not as if they lacked the financial capital for a blockbuster move, with their current luxury tax payroll at around $189 million \u2014 almost $100 million less than the last season and still well below the league’s $233 million luxury tax threshold.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Dodgers evaluated the market, talked to agents and deemed the going rate for many players surpassed what they felt was a responsible, manageable, sustainable amount.<\/p>\n

They came close to signing Justin Verlander, and insist they won’t hesitate to swing a big deal later this winter, for either a free agent or trade target, if the right opportunity emerges.<\/p>\n

But in a winter of rollicking \u2014 and what some might argue reckless \u2014 spending, the Dodgers are hoping their restraint will ultimately help them conquer the sport again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing that’s been constant,\u201d Friedman said of the team’s approach, \u201cis putting ourselves in the best position to win a championship while also keeping that window open for as far as we can see out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such messaging harkens back to Friedman’s early years running one of baseball’s most storied teams, when he was tasked with revamping a club saddled with a bloated payroll and sputtering farm system.<\/p>\n

As the team’s payroll decreased every season from 2015 to 2018, its ability to instead develop prospects and nurture big league talent helped cement the foundation of a new-look contender.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers didn’t always sign top-of-the-line free agents. But it hardly halted their transformation into one of the sport’s most consistent regular-season winners.<\/p>\n

The postseason was a different story, with the Dodgers’ annual shortcomings in the fall increasingly blamed on their unambitious moves the previous winter.<\/p>\n

That finally changed in 2020, when Mookie Betts’ arrival preceded a long-sought World Series championship \u2014 and became the first in a string of high-profile roster moves.<\/p>\n

In 2021, they signed Trevor Bauer, then traded for Trea Turner and Max Scherzer at that season’s trade deadline. Last spring, they shocked the league again by luring Freddie Freeman after his departure from the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n

In hindsight this week, Friedman argued those moves \u2014 which helped escalate the club’s payroll past the league’s luxury tax threshold and, at more than $280 million this past season, to club-record heights \u2014 were essentially the Dodgers’ effort at going all-in .<\/p>\n

They tried jarring the window open a little bit more, hoping it wouldn’t suddenly slam shut.<\/p>\n

The only problem: The Dodgers failed to bring another title, or even National League pennant, to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Entering this offseason, all of it left them at an awkward crossroads: keep spending reallyreally <\/i>big \u2026 or try to recalibrate back at more sustainable levels.<\/p>\n

To this point, the Dodgers are opting for the latter. They’ve shed payroll and positioned themselves to reset their luxury tax penalties. They’ve held onto a new wave of prospects now knocking on the door of the big league roster.<\/p>\n

It’s not a strategy that comes without risk.<\/p>\n

Though their 2023 team is probably already playoff-caliber \u2014 at the start of the offseason, Fangraphs’ ZiPS projection still predicted the Dodgers to be a 91-win, first-place team \u2014 the league’s other title contenders have made more high-profile improvements during this week’s flurry of free-agent activity.<\/p>\n

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Shortstop Carlos Correa is a free agent after spending one season with the Minnesota Twins. It’s unlikely the Dodgers would try to sign him.<\/p>\n

(Carlos Osorio \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The team will certainly bolster the roster before opening day, but probably not with superstar additions \u2014 barring a change of heart toward shortstop Carlos Correa, whom they’re intrigued by but not expected to pursue given his involvement in the Houston Astros’ 2017 sign- stealing scandal; or a sudden collapse in a pitching market now headlined by Carlos Rodon and Kodai Senga, who have also received interest from the Dodgers but will probably earn offers beyond the team’s preferred price range.<\/p>\n

Friedman defended the Dodgers’ approach this week, pushing back against the notion that the team could benefit from another all-in approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just not the sport where that reward is the same as in other sports,\u201d he said. \u201cThe sustained success part comes \u2014 and we’ve seen over the last seven, eight years \u2014 [by] interjecting young, talented players into the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given their conservative approach this week, the Dodgers clearly believe they don’t have to keep spending at levels even their deep-pocketed ownership group might be unwilling to stomach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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