Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton debate whether the Los Angeles Dodgers will set the MLB record for most wins in a season. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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La will break the single-season win record.
That would be 116 from the 2001 Mariners and the 1906 Cubs.
The Dodgers, best team ever in history this year, take it or rank it.
Oof.
Let me walk you through this one.
So the all-time single-season win record, 116 games.
The 2001 Mariners did that.
So in order for the Mets just to match that record Did I say Mets?
Dodgers.
The Dodgers.
In order for the Dodgers, excuse me, in order for the Dodgers to even just match that all-time win record in a single season, they would have to win 23 more games than they did last year.
That’s just to match it.
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They would have to win 18 more games than they did in 2024.
Now, I know the Dodgers went out and got Kyle Tucker this past off-season just because they freaking felt like it, and so the Dodgers are, in theory, with him, better than they were last season and the year before.
But I’m really hard-pressed to believe that the Dodgers can win that many more games this season than they did in two previous World Series seasons, in two previous seasons that felt like all-timers.
So I’m gonna take that, although if there’s any team in Major League Baseball right now that can do it, it is the Dodgers.
But winning 24 more games than they did last season when they won the World Series is a little bit too rich for my blood