Dodgers 1 of 2 Teams Projected For a 101-Win Season: Report

With the offseason winding down, websites start releasing their projections for 2024. Baseball Prospectus releases its Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm (PECOTA) projections each season. This algorithm has the Dodgers winning 101 games next year, along with the Atlanta Braves.

In 2023, the Dodgers won 100 games despite numerous injuries to the starting rotation – Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May, Clayton Kershaw – and infielder Gavin Lux missing the year after tearing his ACL. The organization also placed Julio Urías on administrative leave after allegations of domestic violence arose.

This offseason, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and the front office pulled out all the stops to improve the team. They committed more than $1 billion to bring in Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Teoscar Hernández.

The team will also get Walker Buehler back, who missed all of 2023 due to injury.

For their part, the Braves won 104 games last year. They will bring back the majority of their roster, including National League MVP Ronald Acuña Jr. Atlanta notably acquired left-handed starter Chris Sale in a trade with the Boston Red Sox earlier this offseason.

These teams seem to be on a collision course for the postseason. It would be the third time these teams have met in the playoffs in the last four years – the Dodgers won in seven games in the 2020 National League Championship Series, and the Braves won in six games in the 2021 NLCS.

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