Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2024 revision of our top 50 Los Angeles Dodgers.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note that our algorithm has changed, which yielded minor changes throughout the baseball lists.

Last year, the Dodgers went all in on Shohei Ohtani, and it paid off immediately with the Los Angeles winning the World Series, by defeating the New York Yankees.  Amazingly, there were no new entrants based on 2024, though Max Muncy and Freddie Freeman were close.  Despite winning the MVP, on a team as old and as successful as the Dodgers, Ohtani is not ranked.

As always, we present our top five, which saw two changes based on the new algorithm.

1. Clayton Kershaw

2. Jackie Robinson

3. Sandy Koufax

4. Don Drysdale

5. Duke Snider

You can find the entire list here.

Within the top five, Robinson rockets up to #2 from #6.   His importance in the game could easily place him at the top, but that is another list completely.

Mookie Betts shot up from #46 to #31 and with the new algorithm, Outfielder Andre Ethier comes in at #50.

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From Arizona State, Andre Ethier was drafted by the Oakland Athletics, but while he was still in the minors, he was traded to the Dodgers, which would be the only MLB team he ever played for. 

Ethier won the starting Leftfield job in 2006 Spring Training, and finished fifth in NL Rookie of the Year voting.  He peaked from 2009 to 2012, finishing sixth in MVP voting with his only 30 HR/100 RBI year (31 HR/106 RBI), and was an All-Star the next two seasons. 

Retiring in 2017, Ethier compiled 1,367 Hits and 162 Home Runs.

Days from the January 24, 2023, announcement by the National Baseball Hall of Fame of candidates who may have been elected by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), the burning question is not who those candidates, if any, will be. Instead, the burning question is: What morality are BBWAA voters going to legislate for the Hall of Saints this year?

For more than a decade, the controversy over performance-enhancing drugs (PED) has consumed discussion about who should or should not be elected to the Hall, capped by the late Hall of Famer Joe Morgan's now-infamous 2017 missive to voters about keeping the PED Penitents out of Cooperstown. But although the PED predicament remains—among the returning candidates on the 2023 BBWAA ballot are Manny Ramirez and Álex Rodriguez—voters are now finding other performance flaws in candidates to deny them entrance to the Hallowed Hall.

Andre Ethier played his entire career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and he would have four 20 Home Run seasons and he would be named an All-Star in both 2010 and 2011.  His best year was in a non-All-Star year (2009) where he had career highs in Hits (162), Home Runs (31) and Runs Batted In (106) and he would finish sixth in National League MVP voting.  Ethier, who would also win a Gold Glove (2011), a Silver Slugger (2009) and had 1,367 career Hits.