MLB: Kemp confident Dodgers will have good chemistry

Kempistry 101.

A slimmed down Matt Kemp noticed that people are questioning the Dodgers’ chemistry. For example, there was last week’s tweet from the Giants’ Brandon Belt that you can’t buy chemistry—an obvious reference to the Dodgers’ expensive roster makeover.

“Exactly,” Kemp said about Belt’s tweet. “If I was the World Series champ, I don’t have to say anything about somebody else’s team. I’m not worried about our chemistry. I keep hearing we don’t have any. I can tell our chemistry will be good. We built it at the end of the year, so I don’t care what people say or how they feel.

“We have a great team. We have pitching, we have hitting, we have defense. We have it all. There’s going to be no excuse if we do lose. If everybody does his job, we’ll be successful, and I don’t care what anybody says about us. We just got to go out and do our thing and let them say what they want. We all saw those quotes. We’ll worry about the Dodgers. I’m sure the Giants will worry about the Giants.”

Besides, Kemp said, the entire division poses problems for the Dodgers. Kemp, now 28 and assuming a greater leadership role in the clubhouse, pointed out strengths of each division rival and said the Dodgers will be fine if they focus on what they need to do.

“Chemistry comes from playing with one another,” he said. “You don’t have to like everybody if everybody has one common goal of winning games. Just stick together and we’ll be fine. If you win, chemistry will be there and everybody will like each other.”