Dodgers GM Believes LA Has Better Team Heading Into 2025 Than 2024
An extremely promising sign for any team is when your general manager sees the team as even better than the prior year.
When that team has just won its eighth World Series in franchise history, the anticipation grows even more for the following season. The murmurs of becoming baseball’s first repeat champions in 24 years grow louder.
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Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes spoke on his team’s upcoming title defense, and believes the 2025 roster is even better than the one that just won the World Series.
“I think having a full season of Tommy [Edman], and then adding [Michael] Conforto and [Blake] Snell to the mix, and then bringing some of the pieces back that we did, feel good about where the team is,” Gomes said last week. “We feel like we’re probably even better than we were going into last year.”
In addition to Snell, Conforto, and a full Edman season, the Dodgers brought back Teoscar Hernández and signed three-time KBO Gold Glove winner Hyeseong Kim.
Los Angeles is coming of a 98-win season —the most in the majors last season — that saw an NL-best 233 home runs, and of course the ultimate goal in winning the Fall Classic.
The vote of confidence that L.A.’s general manager is showing in his players is a reason to be hopeful — and when the rest of the league would rank the Dodgers’ front office as the standard, it feels as though this combination of talent is destined for another deep October run.
In a poll canvassed by The Athletic, the Dodgers led the way with 19 first-place votes among anonymous MLB executives and coaches. With two World Series trophies in five seasons, and their core players signed through 2027, the future looks bright in Los Angeles.
The confidence doesn’t stop at the front office.
After Edman inked his five-year extension, he told MLB Network Radio that Los Angeles is “hoping to start the dynasty” and “we’re going for that back-to-back title.”
If Edman and Gomes are correct in their assessments, it helps that the core of the Dodgers — Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freedie Freeman, Will Smith, Teoscar Hernandez, and of course Edman — are all signed on with L.A. until at least 2027.
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Yeah they got it done last year, but I just don’t trust their pitching. It is a problem MLB wide, but it seems like the Dodgers have the weakest arms in terms of injuries. My suspicion, and I’m emphatically nothing more than a guy who likes baseball and the Dodgers, is that the pitching coaches are skilled at getting every last MPH out of an arm, at the cost of frequent injuries.
Good job in bringing back Teo and keeping the top four in the lineup intact and adding some nice pieces at the bottom of the order to turn it over to the top, as that was the Achilles heel last year to the offense.
Now go get T, Scott ( Ohtani’s kryptonite), a good shutdown lefty that complements the heavy right-handed bullpen. Other high-earning superstars (Harper, T. Turner, Olson, Lindor) also struggle against Scott. There’s a pretty good team that’s hard to beat,