The baseball season is just over two weeks old, but it may be ok to say that the National League West will be the best division this season.
It is a very short sample size, but the three best teams in NL West also have the three best records in Majors.
San Diego Padres is an MLB best 12-3, with San Francisco Giants (10-4) and Los Angeles Dodgers (11-5) close behind.
Padres and Dodgers were among the better teams in Majors last season.
You may remember that Los Angeles collected from a game down to eliminate San Diego in the NL Division series and later won the World Series.
Let’s not forget Arizona Diamondbacks (7-7). They reached the 2023 World Series before they lost to Texas Rangers.
So we look at four good teams in the division now that Giants is doing well.
Who had exactly San Francisco Giants to look so good anyway?
Wilmer Flores bases the ball, Jung Hoo Lee activates the attack, and the former Cy Young Award winner Robbie Ray suggests that he will form a terrible one-two with Ace Logan Webb.
San Francisco is doing well despite the fact that three-quarters of Infield are invisible at Plattan-New Shortstop Willy Adames (.196), third bass man Matt Chapman (.184) and the first bass man Lamonte Wade Jr. (.114) Need to smell salts to wake their bats.
It may not be doing, but it is a solid start for a club that missed the playoffs each of the last three seasons.
Dodgers is again the team to beat – not just in NL West, but the whole baseball.
Los Angeles already has 29 homers even though they only have a .228 average. Shohei Ohtani has four homers but only five RBI.
Tommy Edman has six homers and 14 RBI, and Teoscar Hernández has five homers and 16 RBI.
Freddie Freeman just returned from an ankle injury, and Dodgers will be more potent when he finds his shape.
Los Angeles added Blake Snell to the rotation during the season, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto has a strong start with a 1.23 era in 22 rounds.
San Diego saw key cogs like all-Star Outfielder Jurickson Profar, Short Stop Ha-Seong Kim and left-handed Reliever Tanner Scott leave during the season. It caused many observers to expect Padres to release a notch or two.
When it comes to proper-better, he drew an 80-game suspension for Ped use with Atlanta Braves than with Padres.
Hmmm, maybe that’s why he suddenly had the career best campaign last season.
But a 9-0 home start at Petco Park-the best home field advantage in baseball-have helped San Diego to turn the page from their seasonal deficiencies.
Fernando Tatis Jr. beats .365 with four homers and nine RBI to drive the crime.
New injuries to Jackson Merrill (Hamstring) and Jake Cronenworth (RIB) will damage in the short term. Merrill, the NL beginner for this year’s runner last season, started strongly with three homers and a team high 10 RBI when he beat .378.
Pitching is solid, although Michael King (4.05 era) and Dylan end (7.98) are still looking for last season’s ability.
Diamondbacks wants part of this conversation, and Corbin Carroll (five hours) will do its best to get them in it.
When it comes to Colorado Rockies – yes, the wrong conversation for them. Their last winning season was 2018, and they are already 3-11 this season, after being outscored by a large league-host 38 runs.
Denver Nuggets fired title -winning coach Michael Malone. Maybe he can handle Rockies while waiting for another NBA playing.
NL East was able to put up a fight for best division later in the season. Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets have good starts, but Atlanta Braves is only 4-10 and counts down the days until 2023 MVP Ronald Acuña Jr. is back from its ACL injury.
American League East has a good depth, with top to the bottom separated with only two games. The New York Yankees is again the team to beat.
But right now there is no debate: NL West is the best.
