The Dodgers are six games into a 2024 season. Fans’ satisfaction with the direction of the team following a $1.3 billion offseason spending spree certainly hasn’t worn off entirely. But some grumblings of dissatisfaction are poking through the cracks of a 4-2 club.
Some aspects are inspiring more grumbling than others.
Front office
Nine out of 10 fans approve of the front office. Pretty good, right?
Sure, but consider that in the previous poll that 90.4 percent approval rating was up to 96.3 percent. Maybe it’s simply harder to see the holes in a team that hasn’t played a game that counts than a team that has played two (polls were conducted after the Dodgers went 1-1 against the San Diego Padres in South Korea.
Some fans were still on the fence about Mookie Betts’ viability as an everyday shortstop.
Position players
The Dodgers erupted for 11 runs in their second game of the season. That would’ve been enough for a win, if Yoshinobu Yamamoto hadn’t gotten rocked in his only inning of work in his major league debut.
Even besides the shortstop outlook, it turns out there were plenty of nits to pick. The drop in approval for position players was steeper than any other area of the team — from 88.6% to 66.6%.
Starting pitching
There’s no way around it: some fans were simply ready to jump off the Yoshinobu Yamamoto bandwagon after one game. Approval for this group fell from 87% to 72.% in the span of three weeks.
Bullpen
Approval for the relief pitchers “only” fell by 10 percent, which might have been a direct result of the 10 runs they allowed to the Padres in Game 2.
Or not.
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