Los Angeles Dodgers - The Covid-19 Years  (2020-2029)  
   
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  Titles:  Top Dodgers Players of the Twenty Twenties  
  2020 - Won Division; WC def Mil;  NLDS def SD; NLCS def Atlanta; WS def TB    
  2021 - WC def STL; NLDS def SF; NLCS Lost to Atlanta Pitchers:  
  2022 - Won Division; NLDS Lost to SD Clayton Kershaw (12.88) -   40  
  2023 - Won Division; NLDS Lost to Arizona Julio Urias (11.54) -   38  
  2024 - Won Division, Won NLDS (SD), Won NLCS (Mets), Won World Series (Yankees) Tony Gonsolin (7.12) -   18  
  2025 - Won WC (Reds), Won NLDS (Phils), Won NLCS (Milw), Won WS (Toronto) Kenley Jansen (2.82) -   16  
    Yoshinobu Yamamoto (6.7) -  15  
  BallPark:  Evan Phillips (3.85) - 13  
  Chavez Ravine Walker Buehler (7.94) -   13  
    Tyler Anderson (4.25) -  12  
  Team Name: Tyler Glasnow (3.9) -  9  
    Dodgers Gavin Stone (0.7) -  9  
    Dustin May (2.95) -  6  
  Owner:  Bobby Miller (2.1) -  6  
   Guggenheim Baseball Management (Mark Walter lead owner) Craig Kimbrel (0.18) -  5  
    Blake Treinen (3.82)  -   5  
  Team President:  Tanner Scott (-0.6) -  5  
  Andrew Friedman     
    Catchers:  
  General Manager:  Will Smith (20.82) -   57  
  Brandon Gomes     
    First Basemen:  
  Managers: Freddie Freeman (20.71) -  43  
  Dave Roberts      
    Second Base:  
  No Hitters:  Miguel Rojas (6.7) -  13  
  None Gavin Lux (6.76) -   11  
       
  Hall of Famers: ShortStop:  
  None Mookie Betts (25.35) -   66  
    Trea Turner (7.31) -  18  
  Rookie of the Year: Corey Seager (5.64) -    16  
  None    
    Third Base:  
  MVP: Max Muncy (12.08) -   33  
  2024 - Shohei Ohtani Justin Turner (6.91) -   18  
       
  Cy Young: Outfield:  
  None Shohei Ohtani (15.8) -  31  
    Chris Taylor (6.18) -   22  
  Notable Events: Andy Pages  (5.1) - 17  
    Cody Bellinger (1.03) -   16  
  2026 - Since 2012 when the Guggenheim group bought the club, the Dodgers Teoscar Hernandez (5.8) -  15  
  have won the Division twelve times and finished second twice. AJ Pollock (3.81) -   12  
  They have topped ninety wins twelve times - the two times they haven't were  James Outman (3.67) - 9  
  their first year of ownership (2012) when they won 86 and the covid year (2020)  
  when they finished 43-17. The Dodgers are a dynasty. They are rivaling the two Notable Events:  
  greatest regular season dynasties of all time, the 1947-1964 Yankees and the  
  1991-2005 Braves. What the Dodgers are lacking to compete with the Yankees 2020 - The Guggenheim Baseball Management Group owns the club and it   
  legacy are World Series appearances and World Series titles.  has been wildly successful since it bought the Dodgers in 2012. They have deep   
  Los Angeles has appeared in five World Series in this fourteen year stretch. pockets and, after some initial splurges, have settled down to spending lavishly,  
  They lost the first two before finally winning one in the covid year 2020.  but wisely, There are 7 owners with Magic Johnson being the face of the Group.   
  And now they have brought their total of World Series titles to three by winning  
  in 2024 and 2025. When they weren't winning it all, the rest of baseball was 2020 - Andrew Friedman, former GM of the Tampa Rays, has been president since    
  tacitly tolerating the dominance. Now that they are winning it all, the other 2015. There is no GM. Friedman established himself as a high quality baseball  
  twenty nine major league teams are getting pissed. It is a conundrum because the executive in Tampa, winning on a shoestring, and he has adapted seamlessly  
  Dodgers success benefits everybody financially. National TV contracts, revenue to winning in Los Angeles with mega resources at his disposal.   
  from sold out road games to LA. Revenue from sold out home games when the   
  Dodgers come to town. But now the Dodgers are just buying up everybody.  2020 - Dave Roberts is manager. He took over for a very successful Don Mattingly  
  It's getting a bit much. If there were maybe another team or two that was   in 2016 and has matched Mattingly's success. He's Friedman's guy, Mattingly   
  competing on their level financially it would soften the effect. But Red Sox  wasn't.  
  management has stopped spending, Yankee management is useless and maybe  
  the Mets will step up but they just don't seem to ever be able to get out of their  
  own way. Teams like the Braves, the Brewers and the Astros are extremely well  
  run, but they can't compete with this.  
  The only thing holding the Dodgers back from steamrolling everybody even more  
  is pitching injuries. The Dodgers line up a devastating staff each year only to watch  
  attrition by injury turn them into mortals to a degree. And the irony is that the  
  Dodger teams that were carried to the post season by pitching would inevitably  
  flounder but the teams of the last few years that were carried by the offense  
  have now won two World Series in a row. The Dodgers teams, since 2019, have all  
  scored well over a hundred runs more than the league average (including extrapolation  
  of the 2020 covid run totals), The pitching has gone up and down due to injuries.  
  When the pitching staff has held up health wise, the Dodgers have bludgeoned  
  the opposition in the regular season. In 2021, they gave up 164 runs less than the  
  league average and won 106 games and in 2022, the gave up 194 runs less than  
  the league average and won 111 games. In other words, when the pitchers stay  
  healthy, it's not fair. Altho' both of those seasons, LA did not make it to the WS.  
   
  Starting Pitchers:  
   □ RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 27, '24 FA from Japan, '25 12-8 2.49  
  □ RHP Blake Snell, 33, '25 FA from Giants, '25 5-4 2.35  
  □ RHP Shohei Ohtani, 31, '24 FA from Anaheim, '25 1-1 2.87  
   □ RHP Tyler Glasnow, 32, '24 Trade from Tampa, '25 4-3 3.19  
  □ RHP Roki Sasaki, 24, '25 IFA from Japan. '25 1-1 4.46  
  □ RHP Emmet Sheehan, 26, '25 6-3 2.82  
  Barring injury, this is a quality rotation. They are missing Clayton Kershaw, a future  
  Hall of Famer who retired. Dustin May, who was no longer effective was let go.  
  Injuries are always a problem as Ohtani, Snell, Glasnow and Sasaki missed time   
  due to injury or fear of injury.   
   
  Relief Pitchers:  
  □ Closer RHP Edwin Diaz, 32, '26 FA from Mets, '25 6-3 1.63 28saves  
   □ Tanner Scott, 30, '25 FA from San Diego, '25 1-4 4.74 23saves  
   □ LHP Alex Vesia, 29, '21 trade from Miami, '25 4-2 3.02  
  □ RHP Blake Treinen, 38, '20 FA from A's, '25 2-7 5.40  
  □ RHP Brusdar Graterol, 27, '20 Trade from Twins, '23 4-2 1.20  
  □ LHP Jack Dreyer, 27, '21 UFA, '25 3-2 2.95  
  □ RHP Edgardo Henriquez, 24, '18 IFA, '25 2-1 2.37  
  □ RHP Gavin Stone, 27, '20 draft 5th round pick, '24 11-5 3.53  
  □ RHP River Ryan, 27, '22 Trade from SD, '25 1-0 1.33  
  □ LHP Justin Wrobleski, 25, '21 draft 11th round pick, '25 5-5 4.32  
  □ RHP Tyler Gough, 27, '26, '25    
  The Dodgers set up a monster overkill group of relievers last season and watched  
  them all either get hurt or get ineffective. They've cleaned most of that out and  
  will go with lights out closer FA from the Mets Edwin Diaz. This is where you get  
  complaints from other teams as even the Mets can't outbid LA.  
  Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates, Blake Trienen, Michael Kopech, Evan Phillips and  
   Alex Vesia were supposed to comprise a monster bullpen of studs. They didn't.  
  Yates and Kopech are gone, the rest of them are not being counted on heavily.  
  Gavin Stone and Brusdar Graterol are returning from injury. Jack Dreyer, River Ryan  
  and Edgardo Henriquez were effective in relief last year.  
   
  Regulars:  
   □ C Wil Smith, 31, '16 draft 32nd overall pick, '25 17 61 .296  
   □ 1B Freddie Freeman, 36, '22 FA from Braves, '25 24 90 .295  
   □ 2B Hyeseong Kim, 27, '25 FA from Korea, '25 3 17 .280 13sb  
   □ OF Mookie Betts, 33, '20 FA from Boston, '25 20 82 .258  
   □ 3B Max Muncy, 35, '17 FA from A's, '25 19 67 .243  
   □ OF Teoscar Hernandez, 33, '23 trade from Toronto, '25 25 89 .247  
   □ OF Kyle Tucker, 29, '26 FA from Cubs, '25 22 73 .266 25sb  
   □ CF Andy Pages, 25, '18 IFA '25 27 86 .272 14sb  
  □ OF Shohei Ohtani, 31, '24 FA from Anaheim, '25 55 102 .282 20sb  
   □ CF Tommy Edman, 31, '24 trade from Cardinals, '25 13 49 .225   
   □ SS Miguel Rojas, 37, '23 trade from Miami, '25 7 27 .262  
  OF Kyle Tucker was signed as a FA from the Cubs in the offseason amidst howls  
  of protest as the rich get richer. He adds to an offense that already scored  
  105 runs over the league average. The Dodgers problem is that this lineup that  
  has spent the decade bludgeoning the opposition is now getting old. There  
  are eight key hitters over thirty years old. Their best years are behind several of them.  
  Meanwhile, you are not going to go wrong with a lineup that features Shohei Ohtani  
  and his 55 homers, Kyle Tucker, Freddy Freeman, Andy Pages, Teoscar Hernandez,  
  Will Smith and Mookie Betts this season even if there is some decline.