Can Mark Walter’s Dodgers Magic Unlock a Championship Future for the Lakers?
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Being able to sign Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Yoshinobu Yamamoto will help any organization, but winning at the Dodgers’ level also requires the ability to churn out talent even when you’re regularly in the playoffs. The Dodgers have not picked in the top 10 of the MLB Draft since Kershaw in 2006, and yet they are a regular at the top of farm system rankings.
Walker Buehler, Gavin Lux, Will Smith, Andy Pages, Gavin Stone, Dustin May, Tony Gonsolin, Alex Verdugo, Michael Busch, Emmet Sheehan, Dalton Rushing, Bobby Miller — not every player becomes an All-Star or even stays with the Dodgers, who aren’t afraid of trading younger players for veterans, but those player development wins matter. If spending big to get a few good players made you a good team, the Los Angeles Angels would be regularly competing for SoCal supremacy.
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