Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports reports on the state of the Los Angeles Dodgers in a recent article.  Here are few highlights:

• The Dodgers probably will not trade any of their arbitration-eligible players:  Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp, James Loney, Chad Billingsley, Jonathan Broxton and Russell Martin.
• The  team does not want to move their best youngsters as they ascend to the majors.
• They are limited to cash-neutral transactions due to the McCourt divorce, despite team president Dennis Mannion saying that he has not been asked to limit long-term liabilities. If this limitation is true then adding a free agent such as Joel Pineiro, who they are rumored to be chasing, would require the Dodgers to subtract a player from their roster with a comparable salary.  Rosenthal indicates that this would be an odd situation for a team that led the majors in attendance last season and is coming off back-to-back National League Championship Series.
• The team expects to pay Ethier an arbitration salary in the $6 million range.  Rosenthal says that moving Ethier may be counter-productive to the team.
• The Dodger’s rotation will be headed by Billingsley, Clayton Kershaw and Hiroki Kuroda with youngsters competing for the fourth and fifth spots.
• Reliever George Sherrill and his project $4 million salary from arbitration may be a candidate to be traded.  It was rumored last week that the Cincinnati Reds were interested in Sherrill in exchange for Aaron Harang.  Losing Sherrill would weaken the bullpen of the Dodgers, which led the NL in ERA last season.
  
• The biggest off season moves by the Dodgers are the Juan Pierre trade and the signing of Jamey Carroll.
• Given these limitations, Rosenthal believes the Dodgers can do very little.  Any attempt to move forward may move the entire team backwards.