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ATLANTA – Dave Roberts knows a point aliases 2 astir managing superstar MLB players.
Last October, Roberts guided nan Dodgers to nan World Series title for nan 2nd clip successful his managerial career.
He has besides been tapped arsenic nan head for Tuesday's MLB All-Star game. Managing nan National League All-Stars is thing Roberts is acquainted with. He's done nan occupation 3 times earlier — successful 2018, 2019, and 2021.
Entering his 4th clip arsenic nan head astatine nan Midsummer Classic, Roberts admitted he nary longer views nan responsibilities that travel pinch nan occupation arsenic a "challenge."
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A wide position of Truist Park pinch All-Star Game on-field signage during nan HBCU Swingman Classic presented by T-Mobile and powered by nan MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation connected Friday, July 11, 2025 successful Atlanta. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
"Now that there's nary other innings, there's nary situation for me," Roberts told Fox News Digital. "It's easy, my coaches are managing nan pitching … I'm enjoying nan conversations … hanging retired pinch nan players, nan coaches. It's awesome because we're hanging retired pinch nan game's best, everyone's kinda of having a bully time. They're not arsenic edgy arsenic they [would be] for a crippled that matters. So we tin each put that aside, admit that we accomplished thing to get here."
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The Dodgers beforehand agency was acold from complacent this past offseason. The squad added to its star-studded roster pinch a bid of blockbuster moves, which included bringing Japanese pitching phenom Roki Sasaki to Los Angeles. The squad besides signed two-time Cy Young Award victor Blake Snell. Star pitcher Clayton Kershaw, who antecedently declared he would beryllium a "Dodger for life," agreed to a caller short-term woody pinch nan team.
Kershaw, on pinch his teammates Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, dress up nan 5 Dodgers who were selected arsenic 2025 All-Stars.
Shohei Ohtani, #17 of nan Los Angeles Dodgers, talks to nan media during nan 2025 National League Media Availability astatine Coca-Cola Roxy connected Monday, July 14, 2025 successful Atlanta. (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
Roberts added that each nan Dodgers players successful Atlanta for this week’s All-Star festivities are "having a blast."
"Freddie gets to slumber successful his ain bed," Roberts said of Freeman during batting believe up of Monday's location tally derby.
Freeman near Atlanta aft nan Braves' 2021 World Series title. He went connected to gain 2024 World Series MVP honors pinch nan Dodgers. "Getting nan invited from nan Braves religious is going to beryllium a batch of nosy for Freddie."
Manager Dave Roberts of nan Los Angeles Dodgers speaks to nan media during All-Star Workout Day astatine Truist Park connected July 14, 2025 successful Atlanta. (LA-Dodgers-Dave-Roberts.jpg)
"This respite, this break is surely going to beryllium beneficial," Roberts added. "But I do deliberation that it’s going to beryllium bully for each nan guys. I deliberation Shohei (Ohtani) he could astir apt do without this, without each nan attention. But, nan crippled needs Shohei and he's conscionable specified a awesome advocator for nan game. Yammothao is going to beryllium here… not transportation which is going to beryllium great. Will Smith will return a mates of astatine bats… being nan starter for him, I deliberation he's surely earned it."
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Roberts has spent nan past decade managing nan Dodgers. L.A. entered nan All-Star break successful first spot successful nan NL West division.
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Chantz Martin is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
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