Dodgers Hold NL West Lead: Division Odds and Season Outlook

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00:00The Dodgers maintain a three and a half game lead to win the National League West, a division

00:05they have won 12 of the previous 13 MLB seasons.

00:10Here are the records right now and the odds dating back to bet MGM for where things stand

00:17right now around the National League West.

00:19Minus 2,000, still the price on the LA Dodgers.

00:22The Padres, second best record, three and a half games back, 13 to one.

00:26The Giants are riding a six game skid.

00:28They are 14 to one and now seven games back of LA Dodgers not playing great.

00:34Nobody really giving Los Angeles all that much of a chase.

00:39So Donnie, the question to you in this big picture conversation, are the Dodgers in any

00:43real danger of not winning the National League West for a 13th time in the last 14 years?

00:49I don't think so.

00:50And the odds are certainly reflecting that you have a three and a half game lead with two

00:53months and change left in the season and you're being priced at a minus 2000 price.

00:58And it's not as if it's the Chicago White Sox and the Colorado Rockies on your tail 15 games

01:03behind.

01:03It's like, oh, we got this clear.

01:04Like you have a pretty good Padres team here, a Giants team that's really struggling right

01:08now, but an Arizona Diamondbacks team that's talented as well.

01:11And also the Diamondbacks looking to possibly sell the Giants, even though they're three

01:15games above 500, they've lost six games in a row.

01:17So your de facto competition is coming from the Padres, which we did that, you know, at

01:21the all-star break, take a look.

01:23I really liked the Padres in the second half.

01:25I just want the Padres to make a move, get that pitching staff healthy.

01:28And I think they can tangle with the Dodgers, but also understanding this, which I've stated

01:32Ben, since day number one of the Major League Baseball season, don't judge the Los Angeles

01:36Dodgers where they're at in April, May, or June.

01:38Judge them after the trade deadline.

01:40And as I talked about, like teams like the Yankees and the Phillies right now, who's

01:44going to make that move that really puts that catapult into the final stretch of the Major

01:49League Baseball season?

01:51If the Dodgers had an 11-game lead right now, even as injured as they are technically in

01:55their lineup and the guys aren't playing that well, they'd probably just ride it out, get

01:58a bullpen arm and see what they can do.

02:00But the fact that the Dodgers are struggling right now, and we know endless pockets and endless

02:05talent in the minor league system, that might spur them to say, oh yeah, we really weren't

02:09looking now, let's go out and get Eugenio Suarez and the best pitcher and the best bullpen

02:13guy, and let's really start to sort of cave in the rest of the NL down the stretch.

02:17That's what I'm actually worried about.

02:18I do think the Padres will push them, but you see that price point at minus 2,000, how

02:22much can they actually push?

02:24And also, if the Dodgers are down to one and a half game lead over the next two weeks before

02:28the trade deadline, let's just say a week and a half, who do they pull the trigger on and

02:32then get healthy with and say, okay, our starting pitchers are coming back, Otani's now pitching

02:35five innings, Muncy's back in the lineup, and we added Eugenio Suarez.

02:39And another bat like Steven Kwanter, you know what, we were able to get class A away from

02:43the Guardians here just to throw in the back end of that bullpen, because the Dodgers can

02:47do that.

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