{"id":53917,"date":"2022-03-19T13:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=53917"},"modified":"2022-03-19T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T17:41:22","slug":"the-dodgers-have-no-excuse-to-not-win-the-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/03\/19\/the-dodgers-have-no-excuse-to-not-win-the-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dodgers Have No Excuse to Not Win the World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early Thursday morning, the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> sounded a massive horn throughout the baseball world. Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers agreed to a six-year, $162 million contract. Freeman will earn $27 million per season, which is the highest AAV among first basemen in baseball history. <\/span>The reigning World Series champion will join a Dodgers team loaded with talent – from the mound and the plate. The Dodgers already had one of the top two lineups in Major League Baseball, and they now easily boast the best lineup in MLB and a Top Five pitching rotation. The Dodgers have no excuse not to win the World Series this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dodgers have captured the NL West title an astounding eight times in the last decade. They\u2019ve been an absolute powerhouse. However, during that tenure, they’ve only captured one World Series title. Dodgers fans during that tenure ought tons of heartache and heartbreak, having the best team most seasons but not being able to capitalize in those seasons. One could argue that they should\u2019ve won last year due to the mid-season acquisitions of Max Scherzer<\/a> and Trea Turner<\/a> that complemented a team that was already planning to defend their 2020 World Series title. Even with the departure of Scherzer and SS Corey Seager<\/a>, the Dodgers send a not-so-new message with the acquisition of Freeman: We can’t stop, and we won’t stop. Our presence will be made known.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

High Expectations<\/h3>\n

Players of the Dodgers expect to be in October. They have gotten to a point in their understanding that they have what it takes to compete, compete at the highest levels, and on the biggest stages – and frankly, they are absolutely right in their observations. So, in turn, baseball fans and \u201cexperts\u201d also expect this. But how the stakes have risen: The 2020 MVP has \u201cjoined the brawl\u201d – to quote the all-time great fighting game <\/span>Super Smash Bros.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

World Series win or bust for the No. 1 Lineup<\/h3>\n

There is absolutely, unequivocally, positively, no reason that the Dodgers should not win the 2022 World Series; there’s no excuse. Furthermore, it is quite practically a world series or bust. Sorry, World Series <\/span>win<\/span><\/i> or bust. Fans should rightfully be upset if Dodger players are fully healthy and don\u2019t make it past the NLCS. Here\u2019s the star-studded lineup Freeman just joined:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mookie Betts\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n