Andrew Friedman<\/a>, the Dodgers\u2019 president of baseball operations, in his end-of-season news conference, \u201cnot just in 2027, but as we look out.\u201d<\/p>\nAs the Dodgers attempt to strengthen their roster to climb back to the top, however, they\u2019ll have to navigate a disjointed winter transaction window.<\/p>\n
MLB owners are expected to impose a lockout when the collective bargaining agreement expires on Dec. 1. If that happens, the offseason will grind to a halt, suspended indefinitely until the two sides sign a new agreement.<\/p>\n
Will that expected shutdown spur early action in free agency?<\/p>\n
Will the threat of a salary cap freeze the player market?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear, but teams are readying themselves to jump into action whenever the market does move.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019ve been a number of things that we\u2019ve done over the last couple of years that, in October, early-November planning we didn\u2019t think was likely or that possible,\u201d Friedman said. \u201cAn opportunity popped up, and we were at least prepared enough to act in the time to get something done \u2014 there\u2019ve been trades, there\u2019s been free-agent signings.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo for us, it\u2019s just about our internal meetings, getting as prepared as we can be. Because things are going to play out in ways and timing and things that we can\u2019t anticipate, so be as prepared as we can be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amid those unique circumstances, here\u2019s a guide to the Dodgers\u2019 offseason:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text”> This year, the Dodgers watched the World Series from home, with the Milwaukee Brewers\u2019 World Series victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[45757,64,63,25423,5138,216579,21286,591,513594,95275,24986,35990,5149,85,3018,34256,6618,7891,1547],"class_list":["post-946299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-friedman","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blake-treinen","tag-dodgers","tag-eligible-player","tag-free-agent","tag-mlb","tag-monday-deadline","tag-nov","tag-offseason","tag-roster","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-thing","tag-time","tag-world-series","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}