The Los Angeles Dodgers won’t win the World Series for another decade
By Keith Rivas
You can’t think about sports taboo without thinking of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Sort of like the LA Clippers of the NBA, the Los Angeles Dodgers have found ways to not win championships despite having the excellent young talent to do so. Back to back rookies of the year, a Cuban superstar, and the best pitcher in the game haven’t been enough for Los Angeles — and that’s going to cost them dearly.
They got the closest they’ve been in decades last season to finally getting to call themselves the champions of the baseball world. Houston, instead, took Game 7 by storm and left Los Angeles and the fans that make up Dodgers nation speechless.
It was one of the better World Series to date, particularly in Game 5 that saw both LA and Houston go all out in a 13-12 thriller that gave the Astros the series lead.
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But that was last season — what about this year and beyond?
Well, for starters, the Dodgers are likely going to be a great regular season team again when things actually kick off. There’s no reason to doubt them through 162 games, but I am more concerned and focused on their production in the post-season.
Clayton Kershaw will have all eyes back on him now that Yu Darvish is off to Chicago and that is going to put more stress and emphasis on pitching for the Dodgers than we’ve seen over the last few seasons.
Overall, he’s finally up to being .500 in his post-season career, with seven wins and seven losses to his credit. However, he remains 2-4 in the NLCS round — arguably the most crucial round for this team to actually get through — and now that he’s a year older, things could get from bad to worse if they find themselves back there.
We can’t just expect Corey Seager and Cody Bellinger to save this team when they’re down for the count, either. Bellinger will be entering just his sophomore season in the major leagues and Corey Seager, along with Yasiel Puig, have toned their respective games down quite a bit since making a splash on the scene.
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Dave Roberts is still the right coach for this club, but I just don’t see how they’re going to get anywhere until they can move on from Clayton Kershaw and accept the fact that they won’t get a good post-season out of him in the clutch.
The bottom line? They just don’t have it in them.