Dodgers’ New Approach: Just Teach ‘Em to Hit

Have the Dodgers totally given up on defense?

With an outfield of Kirk Gibson, Juan Samuel and Kal Daniels or Hubie Brooks, there is not enough gold in their gloves to fill a tooth.

Maybe Fred Claire thinks he can return to the gunslinger days of power and pitching, where you try to shoot it out with the other team.

But as the Dodgers have found out in the past, that strategy means that mistakes often prove fatal. I just hope that in launching his Dodger perestroika Claire hasn’t dropped the ball.

TIM GEDDES

Huntington Beach