The Los Angeles Dodgers will look unbeatable at their best

The Los Angeles Dodgers were the first team in Major League Baseball to 20 wins and have not even scratched the surface on what is possible in 2019.

The Los Angeles Dodgers season has gotten off to a fairly good start. The Dodgers were the first team to 20 wins and currently hold a one-game lead in the National League West despite dropping two out of three to the San Francisco Giants.

With a .606 winning percentage, the Los Angeles Dodgers have the second-best winning percentage in the National League. It has not been a cakewalk for the Dodgers, either, as they have had to travel a ton to start the year and have played some really good teams.

Most teams would be ecstatic with a 20-13 record after the gauntlet that the Dodgers have had to run through. And while the Dodgers are certainly happy with the record, you can’t help but feel like there is more left on the table.

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First of all, the team endured an ugly six-game losing streak that brought them from 8-2 to 8-8 on the season. You figure if the Dodgers just go .500 in those games, which they really could have and probably should have, then the Dodgers would be sitting pretty with a 23-10 record.

That would be a 112-win pace.

Perhaps the craziest part of the Dodgers fairly hot start is the fact that the team has not even been close to full strength yet to start the year. While they have the best player in baseball right now in Cody Bellinger, the Dodgers are still far away from a finished product.

The pitching staff has just rounded into form and the results have been fairly promising. Returns from Clayton Kershaw and Rich Hill moved Ross Stripling and Julio Urias to the bullpen. And while those two were responsible for the game-winning runs in both the losses in San Francisco, the pitching staff has been great since.

The Dodgers pitching staff has allowed 10 earned runs in the four games since Hill’s return and 14 earned runs over the last seven games. Allowing an average of two runs per game is elite, unfortunately, the Dodgers did not get the bounces in San Francisco to go a perfect 6-0 in that span.

That is just the pitching staff. Although Bellinger has been red-hot, this offense is still far away from what it could be. Justin Turner and Corey Seager are to the two standouts who have not been great to start the year and have so much more to offer to the offense.

If Seager and Turner could get back to their normal production and Bellinger stays at a relatively hot level, the Dodgers could legitimately have the best three-hitter stretch in any lineup across baseball.

Yes, it would be better than the Houston Astros’, New York Yankees’ and any other team you want to throw their way. Turner and Seager at full potential, which is hitting .300+ with power and the insane production of Bellinger is a terrifying three-batter stretch.

The role players will have their ups and downs that will even itself out but when the Dodgers can get those two at full potential then they will legitimately get scary.

It is going to look near impossible to beat a team that holds opposing offenses to 2-3 runs on most nights while also having a three-batter stretch that could produce three runs on every turn of the lineup.

With Bellinger at his current level and a much better pitching staff, the 2019 Los Angeles Dodgers are even more talented than the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers. Just wait until LA is at full strength.