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Atlanta – Dave Roberts by a thing or two about managing Superstar MLB players.
Last October, Roberts Dodgers led to the World Series title for the second time in his management career.
He has also been tapped as manager of Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game. Managing the National League All-Stars is something Roberts is familiar with. He has done the job three times before – in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
Roberts joined his fourth time as manager at Midsummer Classic, admitted that he no longer looks at the responsibility that comes with the job as a “challenge.”
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A general view of Truist Park with All-Star games on field signage during HBCU Swingman Classic presented by T-Mobile and powered by MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation on Friday, July 11, 2025 in Atlanta. (Mary Decicco/MLB photos via Getty Images)
“Now that there is no extra deal, there is no challenge for me,” Roberts told Pakinomist Digital. “It’s easy, my coaches manage pitching … I enjoy the conversations … hanging out with the players, the coaches. It’s great because we hang out with the best of the game, everyone’s kind to have a good time. They’re not as crazy as they [would be] For a game that matters. So we can all put it aside, appreciate that we achieved something to get hit. “
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Dodgers Front Office was far from complicated this past outside of season. The team added to its star-studded list of a series of blockbuster movements that included bringing the Japanese pitching fenom Roki Sasaki to Los Angeles. The team also signed two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell. Star pot Clayton Kershaw, who previously declared that he would be a “Dodger for Life”, accepted a new short -term deal with the team.
Kershaw with his teammates Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith and Yoshinobu Yamamoto form the five dodgers chosen as 2025 All-Stars.
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Roberts added that all Dodgers players in Atlanta to this week’s All-Star celebrations “have an explosion.”
“Freddie gets to sleep in his own bed,” Roberts said of Freeman during Batting practices ahead of Monday’s Home Driving Derby.
Freeman left Atlanta after Braves’ 2021 World Series title. He continued to earn the 2024 World Series MVP Heads with Dodgers. “To be welcomed from Brave’s faithful will be a lot of fun for Freddie.”
Manager Dave Roberts of Los Angeles Dodgers speaks to the media during All-Star Workout Day in Truist Park on July 14, 2025 in Atlanta. (La-Dodgers-Dave-Roberts.jpg)
“This respite, this break will certainly be advantageous,” Roberts added. “But I think it will be good for all guys. I think Shohei (Ohtani) that he could probably do without this, without all that attention. But the game needs Shohei and he is just such a great spokesman for the game. Yammothao will be here … not pitch that will be great.
Roberts has spent the last decade managing dodgers. LA went into the All-Star break in first place in the NL West Division.
The All-Star game from 2025 begins at 1 p.m. 20 one at Fox.
