Jansen appreciates Dodgers’ success

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CLAYTON KERSHAW, left, and Kenley Jansen shared October memories from 2013 to 2021.

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National League West, again. On Tuesday, the Dodgers will make their 13th consecutive postseason appearance, one shy of the major league record. Only once in those 13 seasons did the Dodgers fail to win the NL West: in 2021, when they won 106 games and the San Francisco Giants won 107.

For the Angels and their decorated closer, and for 17 other teams, Tuesday will be the second day of the offseason. That is the norm in baseball, at least outside Chavez Ravine, the Bronx, and recently Milwaukee.

Kenley Jansen played October baseball for the Dodgers from 2013 to 2021, and for the Atlanta Braves in 2022.

In 2023, the first time in 11 years Jansen did not appear in the postseason, his family alerted him that the Dodgers' playoff opener was on television, with good friend Clayton Kershaw pitching.

Jansen had no interest in watching.

"I'm like, guys, I'm not on the Dodgers anymore,'" he said this week at Angel Stadium.