Dodgers Have Not Protected Investments

Tom Lasorda’s “Bulldog” stuff was just an excuse to overwork Orel Hershiser for years and has led to the possible destruction of a great pitcher. Anyone else notice how often Dodgers get injured? And how they revive when they escape to other teams?

Look at Pedro Guerrero, Mariano Duncan, John Tudor, Bob Welch, etc. Look at the condition Kirk Gibson has been in for 18 months. Even the Clippers knew enough to put Danny Manning in rehab long enough to get his legs in shape before asking him to come back. Now Hershiser is Lasorda’s excuse for 1990.

WILLIAM RICHROD, Inglewood