The Shocking Truth Behind the Dodgers’ 2025 World Series Hopes—And Why They Could Crumble Before it Starts
Even their No. 1 payroll is not nearly as separated from the pack as some teams of the early 2000s. The 2005 Yankees, whose payroll topped the second-highest spender by about 56%, won 95 games but crashed out in the AL Division Series when Mike Mussina and Randy Johnson didn’t pitch as well as Shawn Chacon and Chien-Ming Wang. As of now, the Chicago Cubs’ ninth-ranked payroll is about as close to the Dodgers in percentage terms as the second-place Red Sox were to the 2005 Yankees.
It’s nothing against the Dodgers to say stratospheric superteams should come with a warning label: Everything probably looks the best it will ever look right now, in March. Someone will get hurt. Someone will get worse. Some other team will mount a bigger challenge than anticipated in the regular season.
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