The Los Angeles Dodgers have surged to baseball’s best record, largely thanks to major offseason spending.
They opened up their checkbook to the tune of more than $1 billion ahead of this season. That landed superstar free agents like Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on long-term deals. But one of their savviest additions has proved to be slugger Teoscar Hernández, who has excelled on a one-year, $23.5 million contract.
Hernández has slashed .267/.335/.494 this year, earning the second All-Star nod of his career and ranking behind only Ohtani among the team’s leaders in runs, hits, homers and RBI…