Twenty-five regular season games. That’s all that’s left in 2026, folks, and for the Los Angeles Dodgers, it means they are, like, 99.99% locked in for the tournament. Seriously, we’re talking eight or more spots guaranteed, minimum. Turns out, trying to predict this team was a fool’s errand for just about everybody.
Nobody Saw This Coming
Remember all those hot takes heading into the season? Every “expert,” every single prognosticator out there, was practically etching “100+ WINS” onto the Dodgers’ 2026 season plaque. Even I fell into the trap, though I was slightly more reserved, calling for 92 regular-season victories. Well, pull up a chair, because we were all likely wrong. The Dodgers have done something truly wild: they’ve made almost every single prediction for 2026 look absolutely foolish. This team could hypothetically go 116-46 and sweep an 11-0 postseason run as the top seed. But that outcome would require everything to go perfectly right *and* those naysayers about competitive balance to be vindicated. Shohei Ohtani’s out there making plays, but it’s clear this team’s vibe is something else.
Same Cake Mix, New Year?
This feeling isn’t entirely new if you were watching last year. The 2025 Dodgers, for all their offensive firepower that looked like something out of a fever dream or a video game with the budget cranked, just kinda sleepwalked through a lot of their schedule. Pittsburgh, Baltimore… remember watching them shuffle through those games looking totally disinterested? It was the literal personification of “less than the sum of its parts.” They eventually “prevailed” in 2025, sure, and yeah, it was “neat.” But seeing them not bother to take care of business against “lesser opponents” was telling. Looking at 2026, it felt like the “same cake mix as last year, just a year older.” You gotta wonder if that frosting can really compensate for an aging mix. Even Dr. Brent Walker, their Major League Mental Skills Coach, probably didn’t see this coming, unless he’s got Kyle Tucker acting like a chicken up his sleeve.
So, with only 25 games left in the regular season, what are we even watching? The Dodgers are doing their thing, making a mockery of preseason predictions. The big question now is just how far this “everybody was wrong” story goes. We’ve got less than a month of regular season baseball left, and this Dodger squad is still keeping us guessing.
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Originally reported by True Blue LA.
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