LA Dodgers historian Mark Langill gives some insight into the 2025 season

Southern California is still buzzing about the Dodgers World Series win, but many fans want to know where the team goes from here.

Will they be able to pull off a championship back-to-back? What will be the impact of Shohei Ohtani returning to the mound?

Dodgers historian Mark Langill gives us some insight into the 2025 season.

[manuelorozco]

I’m just so happy the Dodgers have triumphed. Tough to tell what next year will bring

[omgbygollywow]

Best thing the Dodgers did was to get Ohtani. He carried the team for months while everyone else was injured. By deferring much of the money on his contract, it allowed the Dodgers to get Glasnow, Yamamoto and Hernandez. The Dodgers will likely get Roki Sasaki, who I am sure wants to play with his countrymen and with a proven championship. The signing of Ohtani may go down in history as the best move in Dodgers organization history.

[tacogang]

I am bout to binge watch the entire postseason over and over for the next 4 months

[cyrus]

The team is gonna enjoy their vacation and needs to be left alone.

[ramonhernandez]

I sure want to see kershaw get to 3000 k’s. He deserves it

[omgbygollywow]

Storybook year for the Dodgers. Signing of the greatest player of all time with the greatest contract of all time. Then, the Ippei scandal. Then personal drama with Freddie Freeman and his son. Then all the injuries and the comeback against the Padres and the World Series with the Yankees.

[getrekkedon]

2025 Dodgers is going to look like a Japan all-star team if they pickup Roki and Murakami.

Besides SD, they breezed through playoffs to win the Championship with a gimped pitching staff. Next season, they'll have the craziest pitching lineup ever.. Ohtani, Yoshi, Roki, Glasnow, Bueler, May, maybe Kershaw?? + a proven bullpen. If they pickup Murakami and who knows who else, their batting lineup would be unrivaled as well.

[otadashi]

There are always two TV channels covering every Dodger game here in Tokyo. One covers the play by play. The other channel just follows Ohtani around while the game is going on. It's insane. I know there is no chance for me to get a ticket to the Dodgers opening games, so I'm not going to even try. 35 million people in this town so I don't know how they will offer tickets for sale.

[Zagirus]

Isn’t it peculiar when Freddie rolled his ankle and couldn’t buy a hit throughout the NLCS, guess what we heard? Absolute silence. No cries of "Oh, Freddie is a complete flop for not showing up!" Nope, instead he was serenaded with soothing whispers of empathy and understanding.

Yet here comes Ohtani, the unsung hero of game 1 of the World Series, who snagged a clutch double in the 8th inning, setting the stage for Freddie’s memorable walk-off that basically won the Dodgers the WS. And then, oh no–a shoulder dislocation in game 2, leaving Ohtani one-handed. Suddenly, a guy playing with what amounts to a mechanical arm is supposed to knock it out of the park? Well, color me amazed. Apparently, "shoulder dislocation" actually means "you must perform superhuman feats without complaint" in whatever parallel universe these causals reside.

So now, despite heroically saving the Dodgers from getting swept by the Padres with his clutch 3-run homer, having an outstanding NLCS performance with a 1.184 OPS, .364 average, .818 with RISP, leading with 9 runs, reaching the bases 17 times, and massively contributing to game 1 of the WS with his series-changing clutch double, Ohtani is now put on trial by the armchair critics, branded as a "postseason choker".

Fascinating! Who knew injuries qualify as failures when you’re not Freddie? Our dear Freddie, however, gets a lovely exemption from expectations when injured but Ohtani? Oh, spare us the details about swinging with one arm, he just needs to put on a show, right? Their logic is baffling.

[Colleen-prqh]

Dodgers are the west coast team if u ain’t watching them and ur from the west coast shame on you

[EvanPena-pp]

I agree win back-to back would mean 2nd team to win 2 championships since yankees won lot.

[corrinflakes]

I hope the Dodgers do another Hololive collab in 2025. 🥺

[Uchihaitachi]

😂😂 not once did I think of ohh we get them next game

[southsidecompton]

We tide the Giants 8 titles well in reality this is Los Angeles 7th WS and San Francisco only has 3. It would be sweet if Dodgers surpass and reach 9 titles.

[jimharper]

0:01 Well, not all of Southern California. lol

[his_recovery]

Vote Steve Garvey .remove Adam schiff

[Carlitabita]

He might be a great historian but they need someone else presenting the information.

[handsuporillshoot]

They can "run it back, " but it depends on what the script writers and Vegas want.

[Gabriel-lliv]

They need to get rid of Brusdar Graterol the pitcher. He’s terrible.

[randallchan]

All the free agents of the 2024 Dodgers will have to decide what to do in 2025 but whoever is on the Dodgers in 2025 I am sure the Baseball team will be a great one again. ⚾️🙂🏆💙🤍👍