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.
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.
We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 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 Major League Baseball.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, the Dodgers had another great year, with a playoff run, but in their current state, anything other than a World Series Championship is a failure. The 2023 season gave us one new entry.
As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes.
2. Sandy Koufax
3. Duke Snider
4. Don Drysdale
5. Dazzy Vance
You can find the entire list here.
This is one of the hardest lists to do, and we know positioning Kershaw at the top is controversial considering the legends that he beat out. Statistically, we can defend it, but in terms of overall legacy, it would be different.
The lone new entrant was last year’s National League runner-up, Mookie Betts, who debuts at #44.
As always, we thank you for your support, and look for more revisions in the future.
You could say that Don Drysdale was in the shadow of Sandy Koufax for most of his career, and there is nothing wrong with that. Koufax was a special player in his second half, and no other practitioner of the mound in the 1960s first half-decade would not have been his second fiddle. Shadow or no shadow, Drysdale was a special Pitcher on an exceptional team and worthy of this top-five rank.