{"id":674267,"date":"2026-03-22T18:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674267\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:08:26","slug":"alex-freeland-beats-hyeseong-kim-for-dodgers-roster-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674267\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Freeland beats Hyeseong Kim for Dodgers roster spot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANAHEIM\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dodgers<\/a> infielder <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-03-04\/dodgers-alex-freeland-second-base-tommy-edman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Freeland<\/a> punctuated his case to make the opening day roster with a home run in the team\u2019s last Cactus League game Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Sunday, before the first game of the Freeway Series with the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angels<\/a>, the Dodgers announced the results of the spring training position battle between Freeland and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-02-17\/dodgers-hyeseong-kim-tommy-edman-injury-second-base\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hyeseong Kim<\/a>: the team optioned Kim to Triple-A Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things that you could argue both sides of either decision, as far as Alex or Hyeseong,\u201d <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-03-22\/two-time-defending-champion-dodgers-goal-is-simple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">manager Dave Roberts<\/a> said Friday. \u201cAnd so I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s clear cut. We still haven\u2019t seen Hyeseong a bunch. Alex, I think he\u2019s taken great at-bats, the numbers, the surface line certainly isn\u2019t there, but it\u2019s still spring training. There\u2019s just deeper conversations that are going to be had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim started off the spring swinging a hot bat. But he went 1-for-12 in the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-03-15\/get-all-beaned-up-enjoy-profound-world-baseball-classic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Baseball Classic<\/a>. Freeland finished Cactus League play with a .116 batting average.<\/p>\n<p>Utility player <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-02-16\/dodgers-tommy-edman-not-ready-for-opening-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Edman\u2019s offseason ankle surgery<\/a> left open the roster spot. He\u2019s progressing but set to start the season on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers also reassigned utility man Nick Senzel, outfielder Jack Suwinski and catcher Seby Zavala to minor-league camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Dodgers infielder Alex Freeland punctuated his case to make the opening day roster with a home run in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":674268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[32074,2379,51380,1582,276,2442,284330,284333,32077,2961,224,5337,87868,34963,170848,284331,3007,94091,284334,284332],"class_list":["post-674267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-alex-freeland","tag-angels","tag-batting-average","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dodgers","tag-dodgers-roster-spot","tag-freeway-series","tag-hyeseong-kim","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-manager-dave-roberts","tag-result","tag-spring-training","tag-spring-training-position-battle","tag-team","tag-triple-a-oklahoma-city","tag-utility-man-nick-senzel","tag-utility-player-tommy-edman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116274168103990645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}