Hindsight being 20/20, someone should have made the necessary arrangements for Bravo to follow Puig to Los Angeles, whether it was the Dodgers, Puig’s agent or Puig himself. The Dodgers didn’t make a real effort to retain him. “He needs discipline, he needs boundaries,” said Bravo, a former English-language instructor for Dodgers minor leaguers. “I’m greatly disappointed in the situation,” Bravo said by phone from his home in Las Cruces, N.M.Bravo might have been Puig’s only chance. Failing to unload Yasiel Puig on another team before Monday’s non-waiver trade deadline, the Dodgers traveled to Colorado without their temperamental outfielder.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 02, 2016 03:56 UTC