Dodgers Given ‘Doomsday Scenario’ Ahead of 2026 Season
The Dodgers have carefully prepared this offseason for a potential three-peat, though there is still a lot of baseball left to be played.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have carefully prepared this offseason for a potential three-peat, though there is still a lot of baseball left to be played. The Dodgers opened up their checkbooks and spent $309 million on two stars — outfielder Kyle Tucker and closer Edwin Diaz. The team needed bullpen help after spending all of 2025 holding on by the edge of their seat with relief woes.
Also, the corner outfield was the weakest spot on the roster in terms of depth and quality. The organization responded by getting the best players at those positions in free agency, and now, the roster looks as good as reasonably possible for Opening Day , with veterans and youth that offer a good mix. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts (30) watches the action against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first inning on Feb.
25, 2026, at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale. However, despite how things may look on the outset, things could still go wrong, with injuries or notable slumps causing them to underperform. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Noel Sanchez (@noisebynoel) The “Doomsday Scenario” FanGraphs senior writer Dan Szymborski filtered through the Dodgers’ projections, looking for the worst possible case scenario, and he found that even if things go terribly off track, October baseball should still be in the cards.
“It’s really hard to kill the Dodgers. I argued after the 2024-2025 offseason, a very busy one, that the Dodgers weren’t really improving their average outcome so much as drastically raising their floor,” Szymborski wrote. “I stand by it; they’ve added Kyle Tucker and Edwin Díaz while losing nobody who was crucial to the 2025 team.