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Los Angeles Dodgers: Five bold predictions for 2019

By Jason Reed

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 05: Corey Seager #5 of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw #22 joke before the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium on September 5, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 05: Corey Seager #5 of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw #22 joke before the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium on September 5, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) /
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5. The Los Angeles Dodgers will win 100 games in 2019

This one might be staggering for even the biggest Los Angeles Dodgers fan. While the Dodgers did win 104 games in 2017, the team showed in 2018 that the 100-win mark is hard to come by when you are grinding through a 162-game season.

There is not a doubt in my mind that the Los Angeles Dodgers will win the National League West. In fact, the state of the division is what is going to lead the Dodgers down the path of winning 100 games.

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The division is weak. The Arizona Diamondbacks already traded Paul Goldschmidt, likely will lose A.J. Pollock in free agency and will probably be moving the limited pieces the team has throughout the offseason and season. They are in a reset mode.

The San Francisco Giants have every incentive to blow the team up and be one of the worst teams in the league and the San Diego Padres, although they are better, are still no more than a 75-win team, at best.

The Colorado Rockies are the biggest threat and enter the 2019 season with most of the same supporting cast, with some swapped out pieces. I would bet on the team that has won six division titles in a row, not the team that has never won a division crown.

The Dodgers are still pretty deep and that is what carries a team through a 162-game season. The team’s pitching staff is more than capable of producing on a nightly basis and the offense is good enough to win games.

Not to mention that there were quite a few games that the Los Angeles Dodgers should have won and simply blew away in 2018. In fact, Baseball-Reference’s Pythagorean Winning Percentage (which measures what a team’s record should be based on run differential) was 102-61.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers are more than good enough to win 100 games and are going to do so for the second time in three years in 2019.

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