Entering the 2025 season, there was no team with higher expectations than the Los Angeles Dodgers.

After rolling to a five-game series victory over the Yankees to claim their second World Series title in the past five seasons, the juggernaut franchise dipped its toes in the Juan Soto sweepstakes before going out and adding to its embarrassment of riches by signing Blake Snell to a nine-figure contract, Tanner Scott to a lucrative $72 million deal, and frustrating all of baseball by landing marquee international free agents Hyeseong Kim and—most gratingly—Roki Sasaki for pennies on the dollar.

All of this, along with adding 2024 All-Star reliever Kirby Yates and re-signing key pieces like Teoscar Hernandez, Blake Treinen, and the immortal Clayton Kershaw, combined to set the Dodgers up wi

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