Los Angeles Dodgers Set to Make Baseball History in 2024 Season
With the Shohei Ohtani signing now official, the Los Angeles Dodgers are set to join a very rare club in baseball history in 2024.
Per Sarah Langs of MLB.com:
With Ohtani, Betts & Freeman, the 2024 Dodgers will be the 5th team to begin a season with 3 players who each finished top-3 in MVP voting in the previous season (either league), joining:
2004 Yankees
1967 Orioles
1960 White Sox
1942 Dodgers
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2004 NYY
Alex Rodriguez (AL 1)
Jorge Posada (AL 3)
Gary Sheffield (NL3)
1967 BAL
Frank Robinson (AL1)
Brooks Robinson (AL2)
Boog Powell (AL3)
1960 CHW
Nellie Fox (AL1)
Luis Aparicio (AL2)
Early Wynn (AL3)
1942 BRO
Dolph Camilli (NL1)
Pete Reiser (NL2)
Whitlow Wyatt (NL3)
The Dodgers are certainly a favorite to win the World Series, along with the New York Yankees, and we could be headed for a Dodgers-Yankees collision course in October.
All three are incredible players and should give the Dodgers the best 1-2-3 lineup combination in baseball. However, the Dodgers still have work to do. With massive injury concerns in their starting rotation, they need to address pitching, and it's why they've been linked to Yoshinobu Yamamoto and other top arms this offseason.
The Dodgers won the National League West in 2023 but were bounced in the National League Division Series by the Arizona Diamondbacks. They have been to the playoffs in 11 straight seasons and last won a World Series during the COVID 2020 season, when they defeated the Tampa Bay Rays.
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