I’m breaking slightly from the question headline format, because Who will win the NL West was a question as idiotic as it was depressing. So instead, here’s a slightly more debatable — if equally depressing — prompt: predict the NL West standings in 2025.
At this stage in the game — which is to say, the stage long before any games — it’s pretty easy to divide the five-team division into four tiers. The Los Angeles Dodgers are, unfortunately, in the top tier, in a league of their own. The Colorado Rockies are in the bottom tier, also in a league of their own, just less admirably so. The Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres are the two teams sharing a tier, below the Dodgers but ahead of…
