Los Angeles Dodgers 2023 Season Preview
Over the past few seasons, my least favorite team preview to write has been the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nothing against them, but they effectively fielded an All-Star team and there wasn’t a whole lot of intrigue. The floor was high, the ceiling was high, the expectations were high and health was the only legitimate question.
You don’t have to be a baseball aficionado to know that this year’s Dodgers team doesn’t look nearly as dominant. The bottom half of the batting order has a lot of questions and the starting rotation has its share of uncertainties. After winning 111 games last season, the Dodgers were bounced by the Padres in the NLDS and their only World Series to show for 10 straight playoff appearances has an asterisk in the minds of many because it came in the COVID-shortened year.
Look, I don’t question the legitimacy of that World Series at all, but it is absolutely a black eye for this organization to have spent billions of dollars in the quest for multiple rings and to only have one in a season we’ll hopefully never see the likes of again. After being a thoroughly dominant team across a lot of metrics, including run differential, for a decade, this is the first year in which you really wonder if this team has the goods.