Are Dodgers Capable of Setting the Regular-Season Wins Record?

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00:00And a lot of people were asking me,

00:01we'll go to the Dodgers here.

00:02A lot of people asked me about the Dodgers,

00:04and I was a little bit effusive with it.

00:08I was like, come on, there's no super teams anymore.

00:11I know they're really good and they're gonna win 100,

00:13but in the end, they're not gonna win 120 games.

00:16No one does that, 115, no one does that.

00:19And Seattle had that incredible year several years ago.

00:22But Buck, I gotta tell you, man,

00:24like I'm sort of regretting that a little bit here,

00:26and I don't wanna get too far ahead of myself,

00:28but they're finding different ways to win

00:30every single night.

00:31This is as close to a super team as we have seen.

00:35I don't know that we will see one in a couple of years

00:37with the new CBA coming,

00:38which is a story for another day here.

00:40But Otani on Thursday, you know, hits that walk-off shot.

00:44Their pitchers just throw five innings,

00:45and then they got these guys throwing sweepers

00:47and sliders at 98, 99,

00:49and they don't even need their guys

00:50to go deep into the game.

00:52Is this as close to a super baseball team

00:59as we've seen in a while?

01:00I'm a little scared to see these outcomes here.

01:03Well, seven games into the season,

01:05but the thing that would scare me

01:07if I was the opposition, not scared,

01:09would make me go, wow, this may play out.

01:11Is their depth.

01:13You know, the quality GMs are always saying, what if?

01:17What if Otani goes down all year?

01:19What if Freeman goes down all year?

01:21We used to say, J.J. Hardy in Baltimore

01:24breaks his leg in spring training.

01:26What are we gonna do?

01:26Because the season doesn't stop,

01:28and they don't, the other teams don't allow you

01:29to catch up until your player comes back.

01:32But what is challenging,

01:35because you're gonna have some issues along the way,

01:38is their depth and their rotation, their bullpen.

01:42That one would get my attention.

01:45I'm like, they are so deep.

01:47They're gonna be able to sustain something.

01:49You know, there are teams that are built,

01:50like that Mariner team, you remember,

01:52they were built for the regular season.

01:54There's really four times you manage as a manager.

01:56You manage in the spring.

01:58You manage in the regular season.

02:00You manage in September baseball.

02:02That's a different cat.

02:03And then you manage in the post-season.

02:05There's four different approaches.

02:07And unfortunately for the opposition,

02:10I think their team is gonna be able to stand

02:13all four of those quadrants.

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