The Los Angeles Dodgers have dominated baseball for the final decade, and a projection from ESPN expects them to do the identical within the upcoming season.
ESPN estimates the Dodgers have a 22.2 p.c likelihood to win the World Collection, down from the 22.4 p.c likelihood they’d previous to the Winter Conferences. That whole is greater than double the probabilities of the following closest staff: The Atlanta Braves with a ten.2 p.c likelihood. Moreover, the Dodgers have a 95.3 p.c likelihood of constructing the postseason, simply as they’ve in every of the final 13 seasons.
“The Dodgers’ offseason has consisted of nabbing a brand new nearer in Edwin Diaz in free company after which working the sides,” ESPN’s Bradford Doolittle wrote. “Now you get the sensation they’re sitting again, having fun with some fantastic cigars, coiled like a proverbial snake ready to strike once more when the time is true.
“Because it stands, L.A. tasks to have the No. 2 offense and the highest pitching workers, each within the rotation and the bullpen.”
The Dodgers led the Nationwide League in wRC+ final season with a 113 mark, second in MLB solely to the New York Yankees. Their elite pitching workers additionally managed the second most fWAR in MLB, falling simply wanting the Philadelphia Phillies.
Do the Dodgers Nonetheless Have Room to Enhance in 2026?
LA is principally a shoe-in for the postseason, seeing as how they’ve certified to play in October for the previous 13 seasons, and their current dominance and abundance of expertise offers ESPN’s mannequin loads of purpose to imagine the Dodgers will attain the World Collection as soon as once more.
Whereas the Dodgers have loads of expertise of their ranks, Doolittle believes the Dodgers nonetheless have room to enhance.
“The Dodgers even have the oldest place participant group within the majors and will stand to combine in slightly youth and athleticism,” Doolittle wrote. “Each could be completed if Alex Freeland and Hyeseong Kim are able to seize bigger roles. After all, they’d additionally get slightly youthful and extra athletic in the event that they signed Kyle Tucker and located a taker for Teoscar Hernandez.”
The Dodgers landed Tucker on a four-year, $240 million deal, which has instantly bolstered their outfield heading into 2026.
It seems the Dodgers are setting themselves as much as proceed their streak of dominance for a very long time to come back.
