The 2025 Season in One Game
Anyone who thinks there is no element of luck in baseball is probably already institutionalized, or ready to be. Whoever wins today is not necessarily the best team, but they are the 2025 World Series Champions. The 2025 Season all comes down to just one game. Win and you are…
Anyone who thinks there is no element of luck in baseball is probably already institutionalized, or ready to be. Whoever wins today is not necessarily the best team, but they are the 2025 World Series Champions. The 2025 Season all comes down to just one game. Win and you are the Champions of the World. Lose and you are an afterthought. I like the Dodgers’ chances. Ohtani will start and empty the tank… three or four innings is what I expect. What happens next depends on where he is in the lineup when he leaves the mount. We could see anyone, except Yamamoto: Glasnow, Snell, Kershaw, Wrobs, Sheehan, et al. The lineup should stay the same. I’m done talking about it. Play ball!
THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL
Next Year
I am convinced that most Dodger fans are looking at this team rebuilding in the wrong way. The Dodgers have too many outfield prospects who may be ready in the next two years to make a dope-fiend move. I think the biggest and best move would be to move Will Smith to another position. I once said 3B, but now I believe it is LF. Will has evolved into an elite hitter, and Dalton Rushing will be an elite power hitter. Get them both in the lineup! Don’t trade Rushing. I think he is a future All-Star. His power will be a welcome addition, and he is a good catcher. Of course, so is Will, but catching wears him down. I want to see how his bat plays up without catching.
Will Smith is a tremendous hitter, and I believe Dalton Rushing will be as well. If Will Smith can avoid the nicks and bruises of catching, I think he might lead the league in batting average. Mike Sirota is the future Dodger Centerfielder, but that will likely have to wait until 2027. The Dodgers need to get younger, and with Rushing at C and Smith in LF, they will. Teoscar plays RF one more year (unless you can get an excellent trade for him now. Call can be his caddy.
Kike could be the odd man out in 2026, as Rojas and Edman will be the superutility players. Here’s what I would do next year:
- Ohtani DH
- Smith LF
- Freeman 1B
- Muncy 3B
- Betts SS
- Rushing C
- Teoscar RF
- Pages CF
- Kim 2B
Bench: Rojas, Rortvedt, Call, Edman
Pages is above-average in CF. Sirota IS a centerfielder. When Sirota arrives in 2027, Pages moves to RF, and Teoscar moves to LF. 2026 could be Muncy’s last year, and then Will Smith to 3B? Why not?
Discussion (73)
Disagree, not disagreeable
Remember earlier in the series when all the Blue Jays fans chanted about Ohtani “We don’t need him”?
Well, it turns out maybe they did need him. Lol
WHAT A SERIES FOR THE AGES.
DODGER MAGIC.
MOTO…..WOW.
GO DODGERS.
FOREVER.
GO.
DODGERS.
What a DYNASTY
Believe it or not, it doesn’t matter, what matters are the results, and my formula, my method, my ritual worked again!
In 2020 Kyle Glaser wrote this piece about how the Dodgers operated, how they were building, and how they spent their money differently than other big-market teams.
Since then, they’ve won three World Series in six seasons.
Open on www.baseballamerica.comhttps://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/theyre-the-model-how-the-dodgers-player-development-machine-rolls-on/Best organization. Best time ever to be a fan of this team.
Fuck yeah! Congratulations to all of us. Two Iowa guys, Dreyer and Walters winning it. Miggy Ro! Yoshi!
Thanks Mark!
We are the Dodgers, we hit home runs.
Yamamoto, series for the ages
What I said “road field advantage”. Guess I’ll have to stay around for a 3peat! Get taken off hospice again. Drama? What else?
Joe’s call on the final DP was pretty amazing:
“To beat the champ, you gotta knock em out”
That’s fucking right!
Amazing series!
Amazing team!
Will Smith is catching his 58th inning of the World Series after hitting that homer in the 11th inning of Game 7.
Kershaw.
Warming.
Up.
You have to believe Yamamoto is going as far as he is able to carry the torch.
I think I’m the only one posting here, but who else is left for Roberts?
Dare I say, Kershaw? Treinen?
WHAT A GAME!
Great move getting PAGES in there! No way Edman makes that catch!
Ump kinda squeezing the Dodgers between the Will Smith strike and the Barger ball.
I DESPISE going to Yamamoto here.
HATE it.
That said….
This game. This World Series. Absolutely incredible. High drama.
Can’t say that was a great AB by Kike.
I CAN say that was a great AB by Rojas!
Ohtani. One more chance
Hate going to Snell here, but the bullpen is what it is.
No Vesia, no Sasaki, can’t trust Treinen. Banda? Klien?
Over Snell? Maybe….
Just a great series.
PS: Who still names their kid “Ernie?”
Vladdy Jr. is super fun to watch.
Just a great, great, great Series.
Two half-innings to go!
Shohei Ohtani is the second player in World Series history with multiple hits in a winner-take-all game he pitched in, joining 1934 Dizzy Dean
not sure I see the wisdom in bringing in Glasnow in the middle of an inning
phew
I think the dream is over.
It’s time to wake up and face reality; this team doesn’t have what it takes.
They forgot the bats.
Even if they were to win this game.
Spoke too soon.
That one’s on Roberts.
Just got home to watch the game, looks like Ohtani isn’t long for it. But so far, so good.