Clubhouse asset Miguel Rojas fires up Dodgers fans with spot-on playoff message

The Los Angeles Dodgers have had a history-making degree of regular season success under Andrew Friedman, and especially since 2019.Unfortunately, the most brutal part of baseball is that no amount of consecutive 100-win seasons absolve you from the nationwide blame game when things go wrong in the Autumn chill of a five-game sample size.Dodgers returnee Miguel Rojas hasn’t lived and died with the team in LA; he was a well-established Marlin for eight seasons, bookended by one-year tenures in California in 2014 and 2023. But his outside perspective could help entering this year’s legacy-defining playoff run, just as it did in loosening up the clubhouse as this surprising season dragged on.Rojas, per longtime Dodger Max Muncy, has represented “fresh eyes” in LA’s quest to leave last season’s playoff upset against San Diego far in the rear view. He and David Peralta, according to Fabian Ardaya’s latest with The Athletic, have helped spearhead a tradition of acknowledging individual series MVPs and sharing shots of tequila in the wake of series wins (which, as we all know, create winning seasons).Perhaps focusing on every small sample size during the regular season will help prepare this year’s Dodgers for October’s consecutive capsules. Because, as
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