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The Los Angeles Dodgers already came into the 2025 season with an excess of arms.<\/p>\n

Following post-seasons that featured backup options and Lance Lynn starting a pivotal Game 5 in 2023, Dodgers’ GM Andrew Friedman made it a point to add on more than might seem necessary.<\/p>\n

\"Dodgers'<\/p>\n

But there are always intriguing options in any big-league Spring Training camp when games start up.<\/p>\n

Guys that may have lost their swing or are looking to find their way tag on to a MLB club as a non-roster invite, with the hopes that they can wow the front office enough to hang around.<\/p>\n

This Spring, that guy is David Bote. The Dodgers scooped him up on a minor league contract with an invite to Spring Training back in December.<\/p>\n

At the time, there were too many other moving pieces for fans to take notice of.<\/p>\n

Bote famously hit one of the most electric walk-off grand slams of all time, but his resume doesn’t exactly jump out at you.<\/p>\n

But maybe it should, because he’s on a different level this Spring. David Bote ties it with a bases-clearing double!<\/p>\n

#DodgersSTpic.twitter.com\/upJr0SGbDV \u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) February 26, 2025 Across his first 12 games with the Dodgers, Bote is slashing .428\/.484\/.750 with nine runs driven in.<\/em><\/p>\n

What’s even more interesting is that he’s doing all of that while presumed starting second baseman Hyeseong Kim struggles to adjust early to Major League pitching.<\/p>\n

It’s not often that non-roster guys find a way to make the Opening Day roster, and it’s even less common to end up as the starter.<\/p>\n

But the Dodgers might have found a resurgence in David Bote that is too good to pass up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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