Insofar as the Los Angeles Dodgers have a secret sauce, this explanation does little to illuminate it. Which makes sense. Their secret part is how they’re able to turn 31-year-old below-average pitcher Andrew Heaney into a sub-3.00 middle-of-the-rotation regular on a staff with the best ERA in baseball. Acquiring guys like Turner — practically an afterthought of the Max Scherzer deal that brought him to L.A. last summer — that’s the fun part of being a behemoth.

1. Insofar as the Los Angeles Dodgers have a secret sauce, this explanation does
little to illuminate it. Which makes sense. Their secret part is how they’re able
to turn 31-year-old below-average pitcher Andrew Heaney into a sub-3.00
middle-of-the-rotation regular on a staff with the best ERA in baseball.
Acquiring guys like Turner — practically an afterthought of the Max Scherzer
deal that brought him to L.A. last summer — that’s the fun part of being a
behemoth.
The answer LA Dodgers Baseball Jersey has stuck with me ever since anyway.
Not because it says anything especially revelatory about the inner workings of
a specific organization, but because it reflects a funny sort of paradigm in the
sport. To win a World Series you need a mercurial magic that’s hard to define
and impossible to predict. Sustained excellence is something much simpler.
Not easier, just simpler.
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MLB’s postseason is one month away. Down the stretch, teams will jockey for
a berth that erases the previous six months. In October anything can happen.
And in the end we’ll crown a deserving champion — that every baseball
season requires the last team standing to both run a marathon and then
survive a sprint is a feature, not a bug. But since we’re to the part of the year
where the superlatives start to really mean something, it just feels worth
mentioning that we already know the best team in each league. It’s been the
same two for the past five years.
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The Dodgers got a head start. Including 2022 (and I feel pretty good about
doing so), they’ll have finished first in the NL West nine out of 10 seasons. The
one year they didn’t, they matched a franchise-high with 106 wins and came
up just short in a division race that deserves to have a book or maybe an epic
poem written about it. So just keep that in mind for your own sense of awe —

2. the Dodgers have been doing this for nearly twice as long — as we tighten the
time frame to include the AL’s best: the Houston Astros.
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6. Since the start of 2017, the Dodgers have won 544 games, the most in MLB.
The Astros are second with 522. Only one other team clears 500, the Yankees
with exactly that many.
(Their continued success in the years since does not excuse the Astros’ sign-
stealing, but it provides a compelling, if complicated, case that they would
have been good without it. Three years after the sanctions, they’re on pace for
104 wins. You’d have to think they stole 22 wins to undermine this argument.)

7. This is no fluke: Houston has scored the most runs in that span; L.A. is second.
L.A. has given up the fewest runs in that span; Houston is second. They have
the highest two team wRC+ in that time and the lowest two ERAs. Defense is
harder to distill into a universally accepted metric, but they also have the
lowest two opposing BABIP in that time, a testament to the ineffectiveness of
putting the ball in play against them.
Both their championships come with caveats, shall we say, and each would
likely need another to entertain dynastic consideration. But even the rings they
have are notable: The other three winningest teams in that five-year span —
Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians — have all failed to win a
World Series. Consistently dominating the regular season and peaking in the
postseason is a tier of two.
“Well, we weren’t good for a lot of years, obviously,” Lance McCullers Jr. said
recently of the Astros’ run of success. And that’s certainly part of it. They did
this on purpose, and being bad was part of that plan. But the cyclical sacrifice
required to tank is precisely why sustainability is considered the ultimate
achievement. And including 2017, neither the Dodgers nor Astros have
selected higher than 15th in the draft since.
Houston Astros’ Jose Altuve (27) celebrates his solo home run with Yordan
Alvarez during the third inning of the team’s baseball game against the Texas
Rangers, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)
The Houston Astros’ Jose Altuve (27) celebrates his solo home run with Yordan
Alvarez during the third inning against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday in
Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)
McCullers drew the connection between the Astros’ front office and disgraced
former general manager Jeff Luhnow’s career start with the St. Louis Cardinals,
a club that has managed to stay similarly relevant — if not quite as fruitful —
with a smaller payroll and for far longer. St. Louis has had only one losing
season this millennium, reliably turning middle-of-the-pack draft slots into
homegrown talent that learns to win together in the lower levels, expertly
complemented by a select few high-profile acquisitions.

8. And to that blueprint, the Astros added early adoption of advanced analytics.
“It’s not only ‘here’s the information,’ it’s ‘here’s the information and here’s
how you should try and apply it,’” Astros third baseman Alex Bregman said
recently.
McCullers said the Astros have always used data to simplify players’ processes,
rather than complicate them. Bench coach Joe Espada, who coached for the
Miami Marlins and Yankees, added: “It’s just part of our DNA, it’s who we are
and it’s part of our process. It’s actually the best I’ve seen on the teams that
I’ve been with.”
Of course all good teams rely on data. Beyond that, Turner distills the
Dodgers’ particular strengths down to “depth and matchups.”
Well, that and relatively unmatched financial might.
“They do a really good job putting people in a position to have success here,”
he said. “So not only do they have the depth from development, spending the
money and all that, but then also I feel like the matchups and the way they use
people is really efficient.”
This is all a pretty long-winded way of saying look at the cumulative standings.
And a pretty cursory look at the machinations behind the scene that make
them possible. But since the whole point is to determine the top teams, it’s
worth considering that at a certain scale, the answer and the evidence is
incontrovertible. There will be plenty of good stories in October this year,
mostly premised on long droughts and skin-of-their-teeth finishes. Plus two
teams with the best cases to be there — and that can be fun, too.
Just ask Trey Mancini, whose career with the Baltimore Orioles involved a lot
of losing in service of what is hopefully an Astros-esque future before getting
traded to Houston at the deadline. Recently, he provided a compelling
assessment of the vibes inside a clubhouse that’s used to winning.

9. “It’s great,” he said. “I mean, it’s awesome.”
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