\u201cI think that he\u2019s done a much better job of controlling the strike zone,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI think that\u2019s something that we felt he could be exposed by balls at the top (of the strike zone), spin down below. He\u2019s done a much better job of managing that, I think, so that\u2019s probably the biggest thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got the ability to put the bat on the ball, get hits, steal bases, play good defense. And I think he\u2019s done all that. I think for me, just the plate discipline piece has been much better.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dodgers included an advanced consent clause in that deal, per multiple league sources, a provision that permits a team to release a player within the first 45 days of a contract without paying the remainder of the player\u2019s owed salary. According to those sources, that deal was restructured and the deadline extended.<\/p>\n
That would indicate that the Dodgers are planning to keep Espinal, at least for now, leaving the decision down to Freeland or Kim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think that he\u2019s done a much better job of controlling the strike zone,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI think…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[36410,2111,4647,479,4284,2934,4294,33560,3031,2323,226754,363,37317,4286,61434,37318,99],"class_list":["post-636636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alex-freeland","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-ca","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-dave-roberts","tag-getty-images","tag-hyeseong-kim","tag-justin-wrobleski","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-medianews-group","tag-mlb","tag-moises-ballesteros","tag-mookie-betts","tag-santiago-espinal","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}