What Does the Dodgers Signing of Cole Hamels Mean in the Grand Scheme of Things?

It’s like chicken soup to a dead man. It couldn’t hurt.

Correction: Cole Hamels is eligible to pitch for the Dodgers in the 2021 postseason. I’d assumed that the date by which acquired players must by in a team’s organization had changed from August 31, which it’s been for decades, to July 30 when Major League Baseball cancelled the August waiver period and non-waiver trade deadline along with it prior to th…