The Los Angeles Dodgers are entering the 2025 season as the favorite to win the World Series, and rightfully so. They have already started the season off on the right foot, sweeping the Chicago Cubs in the Tokyo Series — with Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki pitching very well in front of their home crowd.
Over the past decade or so, the Dodgers have been the most well-run in all of baseball and arguably in all of professional sports, as they have an ownership group that doesn’t shy away from spending money as well as a calculated brain trust that doesn’t just make moves for the sake of it.
Every team is looking up to the Dodgers yet again, and there’s a chance that with the newfound swagger brought forth by their World Series win in 2024, they can surpass the heights they reached last season.
With all that said, here are a few bold predictions for the Dodgers as they head back stateside following a very successful short stint in Japan.
It’s not very realistic to project any team, even a team as talented as the Dodgers’, to exceed the 110-win mark. Only seven other teams in MLB history have accomplished the feat, and it’s not like reaching that threshold is an indicator of future success. Of the seven teams that crossed that mark, only three have won the World Series, so it’s not like this is something teams actively set out to achieve.
But considering the depth the Dodgers have, not to mention the top-end talent that they are boasting on the roster, they are geared to have an excellent regular season. In fact, they beat the Cubs without much fuss, and that was with them missing the services of Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts, among others. They also have some very promising prospects, chief among them Dalton Rushing, waiting in the wings in the event of potential injury problems.
