We return to Tuesday Teasings today to look back on one of our preseason pieces on MLB: the musings of the Los Angeles Dodgers winning 120 games in 2025. Well, that didn’t happen … but the team did win the World Series (again) after a 93-victory regular season, another National League West Division title (its 12th in the last 13 years), and a 13-4 journey through four rounds of postseason play. We’d say L.A. did okay, eh?

Indeed.

If not for a 10-14 record in July, perhaps the Dodgers would have won 100 games yet again. If not for the cheating Houston Astros in 2017 and the cheating Boston Red Sox in 2018, this L.A. run of success—13 consecutive October appearances—would look even more impressive than it already does. The franchise has now won three World Series this decade alone, and there are still four more seasons to go in the 2020s.

Will Los Angeles’ dynasty (a term that can only be used officially when a team wins back-to-back titles, really, at the very least) continue? We assume so, as there’s little continuity on the roster from 2013 until now. After the team missed the playoffs three years in a row from 2010–2012, while watching the San Francisco Giants win two tainted World Series title in that brief stretch, the Dodgers have been money.

No reason to expect that to stop now, even if there are some fading stars on the roster. Shohei Ohtani will enter his age-31 season in 2026, and he hit 55 home runs this year while leading the NL in SLG and OPS; his crazy postseason efforts showed us he is—without a doubt—the most talented baseball player this century, if not ever. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was stunning in the playoffs, too, and Roki Sasaki will be a star, as well.

So … if nothing else, the Dodgers can keep a Japanese pipeline of talent flowing. That’s never going away.

L.A. clearly has some offensive challenges, though, as Ohtani was the only regular player to post an October OPS mark above .788 on the way to winning the championship. But we know the team’s front office will simply reload every offseason as it deems necessary, keeping this NL West machine rolling. Nothing lasts forever, so we won’t say “three-peat” … but we’re not picking against the Dodgers again, until they lose. Duh.