Anyone who thought that New York York 1998-2000 Yankees perfected the art of being bad guys had to obtain a charge of the Los Angeles 2025 dodgers. After a dominant season in 2024 during which they led the majors in the victories of the regular season on the way to win the World Series, the dodgers have shown that being good Be the most aggressive team on the market for free agents.
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The cries sounded all of America that the dodgers and their high manners were bad for baseball. And these cries received statistical support in early February, when Pecota projected in class were released.
Not only was Los Angeles chosen to finish in first place, but his 103 victories were 10 more than those of any other team.
Surprisingly, the expected domination of dodgers did not resolve in the fantastic draft season. Of course, there are coveted players from Los Angeles. Shohei Ohtani is Consensus n ° 1 overall choiceWhile Mookie Betts comes out of the table later 1 and Freddie Freeman is often selected in turn 2. But overall, the dodgers do not overflow with fantastic stars.
For example, even if Dodgers should authorize the least races, the navies have more recovery capital in their pitch staff, with the 100 best choices Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, Luis Castillo, Bryce Miller and Andres Muñoz. And on the striking side, the brave should score 75 points less than the Dodgers, but have more than 60 best choices in Matt Olson, Ronald Acuña Jr., Austin Riley, Ozzie Albies, Michael Harris II and Marcell Ozuna.
The absence of correlation between the dodgers expected that domination and their fantastic capital causes two possible conclusions:
1) Dodgers will not be as good as we expected.
2) Fantasy managers underestimate certain dodgers.
However, none of these points is true. There is no shortage of projection systems the brand of the quality of the. And for the most part, the Dodgers are evaluated quite by editors.
The secret lies in the way dodgers were built. Andrew Friedman and his friends have built a team that is deep beyond the comparison. This team is perfectly built to withstand the rigors of seven months of the regular season and baseball in the playoffs. And this approach will make fantastic managers crazy all season.
Let’s take a look at the likely sources of frustration.
Tommy Edman and the crowd of the bench
Prepare yourself, because Tommy Edman is ready to ruin the day for your Dodgers strikers. The versatile defensive player is labeled as a bench player in the First official prediction of the team listBut let’s not be mistaken that Edman is in the programming most of the time, spelling most unnamed regulars Ohtani, Betts and Freeman.
And the frustrations will not end with Edman, while his compatriot, the bench player Chris Taylor can play several positions and Enrique Hernández amassed nearly 400 plaques appearances last year. The lower half of the team’s programming will be productive, but it will keep the managers of the daily league on their guard while testing the patience of the weekly leagues.
Rotation rotation
Managers may find it difficult to get a firm socket on the team rotation all season. Dodgers sometimes ride with five runners, but will have six men more often in their rotation, especially once Ohtani is ready to join the group. The team’s ace, Blake Snell, launched more than 130 rounds twice during his 9 -year career. Among those who are candidates for the rotation of the opening day, only Tyler Glasnow launched 100 rounds last year, and it is one of the most fragile starters in baseball. Roki Sasaki is exciting but not likely to have a massive workload in his recruited season.
Overall, this group should include some men who succeed more than 120 to 150 innings, which makes them well n ° 2-3 fantastic runners – but not the aces. In fact, in the opinion of this writer, all the notable Dodgers starters are written too early in the Yahoo leagues.
ADP of notable departures in the rotation of dodgers
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Blake Snell: 39.7
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto: 51.5
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Tyler Glasnow: 85.4
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Sasaki Roki: 104.1
Enclosure of lifts by Committee
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts recently said that Tanner Scott would get Most backup opportunities At the start of the season. Of course, this is an manager who, despite an effective enclosure, varied his use of lifter last year at the point where 14 launchers won at least one backup and no one has accumulated 20. Los Angeles has not had a 25 jumps in one of the three previous seasons, and this year, Roberts can choose between an incredibly deep body, in particular Blake Signon Scott and Kirby Yates, as well as Blake From Kirby Yates, with Blake Signon Free Scott and Kirby Yate Treinen and Michael Kopech. Scott is currently the 13th lift of the Board of Directors in the Drafts of Yahoo, which is right but certainly not a discount for someone who could go from 20 to 40 stops.
So where do you find the value?
I don’t want to confuse my main point in this article. Dodgers will be great this year. Fantasy managers should know how to use this quantity to their advantage. The editorial staff of Ohtani, Betts or Freeman is a good way to do so, but these players have no real advantage on superstars which are options in the same range. And because Roberts will distribute the workload, the next level of fantasy options can be disappointing. However, there are late, late gems that could benefit from being surrounded by magnitude.
Max MUNCY (Yahoo ADP: 192.6)
Muncy is perhaps the most undervalued player of the Dodgers. Of course, its average stick is a nuisance. But the slugger can sit 25 games and still produce 30 circuits and 180 R + Rbis. There is no one else in the Pick 200 range which can correspond to the power numbers of Muncy.
Michael Comforto (Yahoo ADP: 247.1)
Comforto is very cheap in drafts and does not lose much fantastic value by being a peloton. Slugger Lefty was surprisingly effective against Southpaws last year, but most of his career production came against right -handers. It can produce 25 circuits and 70 products produced as a late choice.
Kirby Yates (Yahoo ADP: 162.9)
Yates was as effective as any lifter in baseball last year, ranking first or second among those who faced at least 200 strikers in Xera, XBA, XSLG and XWOBA. He should have chances of safeguard, especially due to being a right -hander of the left -hander Scott. And if Scott flickers, Yates could become a top 10 closer. While the buzz on Scott continues to grow, I expect Yates to fall apart from the 200 best choices.
Tony Gonsolin (Yahoo ADP: 261.5) and Dustin May (Yahoo ADP: 258.6)
The four -fifths of the projected rotation cost dearly in the sketches, but securing the final place is incredibly cheap. Gonsolin and May come back from injuries and will fight for a place of rotation in spring training. There are also Darkhorse candidates, like Bobby Miller and Landon Knack. Those who write at the end of March should be ready to grasp the winner of this battle, because whoever begins for this juggernaut is worth a place in fantastic alignments.
