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    Bill Plaschke: Shedding Puig helps Dodgers

    by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Dec 22, 2018 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_Yasiel Puig was energetic, exciting and fun.

    Yasiel Puig was also selfish, irresponsible and ultimately destructive.

    His success with the Dodgers was epitomized by that three-run home run in Game 4 of the World Series against the Boston Red Sox, the glorious flipping of his bat, the triumphant raising of the arms, the playful flex of his biceps for fan Kobe Bryant.

    Yet his failure here was epitomized only a couple of weeks earlier when a base-running blunder against the Atlanta Braves earned him a rare playoff dugout scolding by manager Dave Roberts.

    During his six seasons in Los Angeles, Puig captured the hearts of Dodger

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