The Dodgers don’t want Hyun-Jin Ryu to pitch for them anymore.



We know this because he signed somewhere else, in a city so far away you need a passport to get there. The Dodgers might have wanted him back for less than the four-year, $80 million contract he got from Toronto, but it’s not like they’re getting outbid by the Blue Jays if they don’t want to be. And it’s not like Ryu would have said no to staying.



He wasn’t photographed holding a “Blue Jays fan today, tomorrow forever” sign as a young child. He never seemed to take issue with the Dodgers’ “Hollywood lifestyle” — whatever that is.



Ryu was a Dodger through and through, and one of the best to ever take the hill for the storied franchise as famous for its pitchers as its Dodger Dogs. Ryu led the National League with both a 2.32 ERA last season and a 179 ERA+. He finished second in Cy Young voting. He made everyone around him...