Over the last decade the Los Angeles Dodgers have essentially built a super team, winning eight consecutive National League West titles while also maintaining a top-five farm system in baseball.
Up until this season they had nothing to show for it as their last World Series win came in 1988. The team reached the Fall Classic in 2017 and 2018 and had the best record in the NL, but ultimately fell short all three times.
That prompted Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman to make a big move, acquiring Mookie Betts in a blockbuster trade with the Boston Red Sox before the start of the 2020 season.