{"id":282252,"date":"2025-08-30T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/282252\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:03:14","slug":"dodgers-news-andrew-friedman-is-master-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/282252\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers news: Andrew Friedman is master level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Baseball is a game like no other. In most professional sports, things are a little more obvious. Top draft picks become superstars, the best team usually wins, and entire championships don\u2019t usually come down to how a guy wearing a mask calls a spinning ball moving at 100+ mph through space. In baseball, players are unpredictable. Teams of professional scouts attempt to project players\u2019 future prospects, and in the end, there is a whole lot of randomness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earning a reputation for identifying, developing, and unlocking baseball talent is an exceptional achievement. Now go out and do it again. Randomness is a bitch. If you can beat that, then you are a true master.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Poker is a very random game. It\u2019s 100% luck who gets dealt the best hand. But there is a guy who has won 17 World Championships of Poker. And another guy who has won 11. Chess has no randomness at all. Masters of random games are a different kind of master than masters of non-random games. Masters of chess are linear geniuses. Masters of random games are Rain Man savant types.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I\u2019m not sure if my next line should be \u201cmeet Andrew Friedman\u201d or \u201cmeet the Dodgers braintrust\u201d. Pick the one you like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I will now present my case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">2025 July record pitching for Dayton, Level High-A<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">4 starts, 0-3 record, 17.2 innings, 14 earned runs, .286 avg. against<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">2025 August record pitching for Great Lakes: Level High-A<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">5 starts, 4-0 record, 29 innings, 5 earned runs, .192 avg. against<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">2025 record with Portland, Level: Double-A<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">211 ABs, .227\/.305\/.412., strikeout percentage: 20.7 percent<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">2025 record with Tulsa, Level: Double-A<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">84 ABs, .286\/.404\/.452, strikeout percentage: 10.6 percent<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">2025 record with Portland, Level: Double-A<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">116 ABs, .207\/.319\/.267, 19 walks, 7 RBIs<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">2025 record with Tulsa, Level: Double-A<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">82 ABs, .232\/.402\/.366, 21 walks, 17 RBIs<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov2 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1 _16w9vovb\">Other minor league players acquired in trades this season<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Charles Davalan (acquired with the draft pick received in the Gavin Lux trade)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov2 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1 _16w9vovb\">The totality traded away to acquire the seven above players:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dustin May (on an expiring contract)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We have reached a verdict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dodgers are the Masters of Baseball.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"duet--article--comments-link _1jdgahs9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/dodgers-minor-leagues\/102619\/dodgers-trade-deadline-minors#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball is a game like no other. 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