Stephen Dunn/Getty ImagesAndre Ethier (46)In an offseason dominated by kudos for Clayton Kershaw and Matt Kemp, speculation about the future of James Loney, headscratching over some free-agent contracts handed out by Ned Colletti, mourning over the imminent departure of Hiroki Kuroda, fretting over the state of the starting rotation and the offense, and of course, cautious optimism about what we hope to be the final chapter in the McCourt ownership drama, you'd be hard-pressed to find many words written about one player integral to the Dodgers' 2012 fortunes: Andre Ethier.