Complaints that the deep pockets of the Los Angeles Dodgers are destroying the balance of competition in baseball has been heard and taken into account by the World Series champion.
They don’t apologize.
“Our ownership group has been enormous support to continue to put back in our fans, who have done nothing but support us and come out and see us,” said Director General Brandon Gomes at the team’s latest press conference, this one to announce signing by Top Reliever Tanner Scott.
“So we’re only focused on“ How do we make our team better? “And give back to the fans who have nothing but see us.”
Dodger’s goal to make a very good list even better comes from the desire to consistently end what they start.
By 2024, Dodgers had made 11 consecutive playoffs, with 10 National League West titles in that route.
And the only championship in that driving came in a Pandemic-shortened season 2020.
Anyone with contempt for Dodgers, especially anyone in San Francisco, was quick to dismiss the performance. Some Dodger’s staff even referred the rejection attitude during last autumn’s title run.
“I’m sure there is no asterisk on this one,” Dodger’s manager Dave Roberts said after the current title was secured.
But Dodgers does not spend again this winter despite. The key to their goal to add as much talent as possible, even when wages continue to increase, is that it is scary to play a season of 162 games and then survive the playoffs of the playoffs.
In the previous playoffs, Dodgers pitching seemed to run on vapors, either from injury or wear from the regular season.
That question was even present during the 2024 season, when Dodgers had only three healthy starters, and one of them, Walker Buehler, was a question mark after a two-year dismissal for a second Tommy John operation.
Dodger’s cobbled bullpen game in the playoffs to get the job done, and anyone who believed it was the team’s plan all the time, or that it established some kind of legitimate strategy in the future, had not been aware of the team’s post -season sight over the past decade.
So Dodgers added two of the biggest prices during the season. Twice the Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell came aboard a five-year agreement, $ 182 million, and Roki Sasaki was acquired on a signature bonus of $ 6.5 million, with team control salary for their first three seasons.
There were other additions that Scott’s four-year-old, $ 72 million agreement, card stop Hyeseong Kim’s three-year-old, $ 12.5 million pact, right-wing dealer Kirby Yates one year, $ 13 million and a one-year contract of $ 17 million for excursion Michael Conforto. Outfielder Teoscar Hernandez signed again for three years and $ 66 million.
Still, the most awaited of all for 2025 will be Shohei Ohtani’s return to Haugen.
With Tyler Glasnow’s return from an elbow trunk, Tony Gonsolin’s comeback from Tommy John Surgery, and Clayton Kershaw’s wish for at least another summer in La Sun, the starting staff is stacked. There are even expected contributions from Landon Knack, Dustin May and Justin Wroblesski.
Dodgers knows that a good thing can turn in a moment. Young starters such as Gavin Stone, Emmit Sheehan and River Ryan all contributed last season, and all three will be out in 2025 with injuries. Buehler went in free agency. Half season rental Jack Flaherty will also leave in free agency.
“… right now we are 3-to-1 against to win the World Series,” said Dodger’s Team President Stan Kasten last week. “It’s 70, 75 percent likely that someone else will win the World Series. So obviously (Dodger’s expenses) has not damaged the game competitively. “
Although that percentage is true, according to implied probability, the odds of a championship favorite will not be much less than 3 to 1. It sets up Dodgers as both a huge title favorite and a massive antagonist outside LA
No one is expected to pull more fans in the coming season, neither at home nor on the road. This means that competitiveness will be as great as ever in 2025.
