This has been a good regular season for those who were worried the Los Angeles Dodgers were going to use their financial might to dominate Major League Baseball for the foreseeable future.

Despite a $350 million payroll , Los Angeles is a merely very good 88-68 and two games ahead of the San Diego Padres in the NL West race. The Dodgers are four games behind the Philadelphia Phillies in the race for the final bye, which means they are likely to begin the playoffs in the anything-can-happen best-of-three wild card round scheduled to begin next week.

Which also means we are a week away from finding out whether or not the Dodgers have figured out the life hack that allows them to treat the regular season like a six-month spring training yet win it all anyway.

While most of us have focuse

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