In hopes of preparing players for not just the Korean series, but also the remaining 160 games, the Dodgers' plan was well underway by the time they touched down in South Korea.
As Brandon McDaniel, the Dodgers’ vice president of player performance, walked through the team’s spring training clubhouse last week, he laughed when a reporter stopped him to ask about the season-opening trip to South Korea. How much time had he, like many others in the organization, spent during camp preparing players for the international series? “It’s kind of been my whole life lately,” he said with a chuckle. “We’re just doing everything we can to put a plan in place.
Ten years ago he was in his second season as the Dodgers’ strength coach when the team opened its season in Sydney, Australia, with two games against the Arizona Diamondbacks. That series, held at the Sydney Cricket Ground, helped grow the game Down Under — but came with some injuries that, in hindsight, were seen as side effects of the strenuous spring schedule. Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw strained a back muscle during his opening day start, the most severe injury of his career to that point.
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