Heading into the weekend with a handful of Dodgers stories, news, and notes.

Jay Jaffe dug into the data on the Dodgers’ recent title run in various forms at FanGraphs, and concluded “this Dodgers dynasty can stand with the best of the expansion era.”

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Bradley Woodrum, who was the coordinator of baseball information services in the Marlins front office for several years, wrote about Miguel Rojas at Baseball Prospectus:

This World Series ninth inning may well be the coda event for Miggy’s career, the swansong highlight he’ll have memorialized in an oil painting above the fireplace. It’s the unexpected reward at the end of an unexpected journey. These same Dodgers took a chance on Rojas over a decade earlier, extending his career with a minor league deal, a possibly career-saving deal.

Game 7 of the World Series was such an enthralling battle between the Dodgers and Blue Jays, that it reached not only hardcore baseball fans but also audiences from several corners. Mia Sato at The Verge wrote about the cultural imprint of Game 7 and how baseball broke containment:

Bluesky on Saturday night felt as livebloggy as it ever has — traffic to the site spiked during the game. Again, people I had never seen mention baseball were right there with the sports fans, all of us holding our breaths through each agonizing and euphoric moment.

Joshua Rodrigues at his Foundations on the Field newsletter wrote about the teaching abilities of the Dodgers coaching staff:

In a league obsessed with bat speed and spin rates, the Dodgers are developing something rarer understanding. They’re not just reviewing plays on video they’re teaching the rules, showing how a tiny detail can swing a game. It doesn’t show up in a box score, or a Statcast profile, but it produces smarter, faster thinkers. Knowing when a ball is live, when to run, when to signal that separates teams that react from teams that anticipate. The Dodgers aren’t just betting on talent they’re trying to make sure that their players understand exactly what needs to get done.

Justin Dean was placed on outright waivers in the Dodgers’ flurry of roster moves on Thursday, then claimed by the San Francisco Giants. The outfielder, who played in 13 of the Dodgers’ 17 games, shared a series of photos of his time with the Dodgers on Instagram on Thursday night with the note, “Thank you LA for changing my life!”