Will underestimating their bullpen needs cost the Dodgers a playoff berth?

LOS ANGELES — It is the decision that might have doomed the Dodgers’ season.
As the trade deadline approached a month ago, bullpen help was clearly the team’s greatest need. Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and GM Farhan Zaidi have both acknowledged this. But the team chose to spend its resources – seven prospects, one big-league player and the limited space the Dodgers had left under the luxury-tax threshold – on offense, trading for infield