Top 50 Los Angeles Dodgers
One of the most celebrated franchises in all sports, the Los Angeles Dodgers were initially the Brooklyn Grays in 1883, but it was a long time before they found an identity.
The organization changed its name multiple times since its origin, the Atlantics (1884), back to the Grays (1885-87), then the Bridegrooms (1888-90), the Grooms (1991-95), the Bridegrooms again (1895-98, the Superbas (1899-1910), the Trolley Dodgers (1911-12), then the Dodgers (1913), the Robins (1914-1931), before settling on the Dodgers again in 1932.
The Brooklyn Dodgers would sign Jackie Robinson to integrate baseball, and in 1955, on their eighth attempt, they finally won their first World Series.
The fans of Brooklyn were not rewarded for their loyalty and patience, and like the crosstown New York Giants, westward the Dodgers went in 1957, where they remain to this day.
In Los Angeles, the Dodgers won three World Series Titles in their first ten years in the new environment, capturing it all in 1959, 1963, and 1965. The 1970s saw them competitive at the decade's end, and they won two more Championships in the 1980s (1981 and 1988).
In recent years, the Dodgers have been a top team, winning the World Series in 2020 and 2024, and enter this year as the most loaded organization in baseball.
This list is up to the end of the 2024 regular season.
Note: Baseball lists are based on an amalgamation of tenure, traditional statistics, advanced statistics, playoff statistics, and post-season accolades.
Mike Griffin was already playing in top baseball leagues for four years, last playing a season in the short-lived Player's League for Philadelphia. The Outfielder joined Brooklyn in 1891 of the National League, the final team he would play for. Griffin had a great start with the Bridegrooms, leading the NL in Doubles (36) with 65 Stolen Bases. Swiping at least 30 Bases each of the next three years, Griffin began a five-year streak in 1894 where he batted at least .300, which concluded in 1898. To his surprise, Brooklyn merged with Baltimore, and he refused to sign a contract under the new…
Burt Hooton cut his teeth with the Chicago Cubs, making their parent club in 1971, but the struggles in Wrigley saw the hurler traded to L.A. early in the 1975 Season. If you are to go by traditional statistics, this was the most fantastic year of Hooton's career, as he went 18 and 9, the best Winning Percentage in the National League. Hooton remained a Starting Rotation fixture for Los Angeles for years, which included a spectacular year in 1978 where he was the Cy Young runner-up with a career-best in Wins (19), along with a strong ERA of 2.71. Helping the…
Jimmy Sheckard played for Brooklyn on three different occasions; though this was in a tight vacuum, you could argue that his first MLB half was indeed with Brooklyn. Sheckard first appeared for Brooklyn in 1897, becoming a starting Outfield as a sophomore, but he was assigned to the first version of the Baltimore Orioles in 1899, only to be re-assigned back in 1900. He had a very good 1901, putting up career-highs in Hits (196), Triples (19), and the Slash Line (.354/.409/.534), with his total in Triples and Slugging league-leading. The year after was a little strange, as Sheckard again joined…
With all due respect to Eric Gagne, who won the Cy Young in 2003, we think that Kenley Jansen is the greatest closer in Dodgers history. Jansen came to Baseball via Curacao, converting from a Catcher to the Relief Pitcher in the Dodgers minor league system, and six years after he was signed, in 2010, he made his debut for Los Angeles. A flamethrowing closer in the Minors, L.A. knew they would have their ninth-inning guy, and he became that in 2012. Jansen was solid in this role, seemingly improving every year, and by 2015, he was considered the elite reliever…
An All-Star with the Pirates in 1945, Elwin “Preacher” Roe made the most of his belated opportunity with the depleted World War II roster, but when the Majors were replenished, the next two years saw his ERA balloon over five, though likely this was the result of the after-effects of a fractured skull he suffered from a fight while refereeing a high school basketball game. Now over 30, it appeared that Roe’s run in the Majors would end shortly, but Dodgers GM, Branch Rickey, had other ideas. Now a Dodger, healthy, and using an illegal spitball, Roe became a star in…
Matt Kemp joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in late 2006 after three years in the Minors, but it was not for another two seasons that he established himself as an everyday Outfielder. Breaking out in 2009 with a 26 HR/101 RBI/34 SB year where he won the Silver Slugger and Gold Glove, Kemp was tenth in MVP voting, and Los Angeles thought they had a potential megastar. After a decent 2010, Kemp had one of the best seasons of a player who didn't win the MVP. Kemp's 2011 saw him finish one Home Run shy of a 40/40 year, but he still led…
When you win over 100 Games for the Dodgers, you would think you would be held in higher regard, but Ramon Martinez's long Dodgers tenure did not see a lot of playoff action. Signed as an amateur Free Agent in 1984, the native of the Dominican Republic was the youngest player in the Majors when he debuted four years later for L.A.. The Dodgers won the World Series that year, though Martinez was not on the roster. He bounced back and forth between the Majors and Minors in 1989 but was a Major League player to stay in 1990, a year that…
Before Whit Wyatt joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, he had already played nine years in the American League (Detroit, Chicago & Cleveland), but he played the entirety of the 1938 Season in the Minors. The Brooklyn Dodgers still thought there was life left in Wyatt’s career, and they purchased his contract from Cleveland. As was often the case in this era, the Dodgers were proven right. Wyatt, who had never been to an All-Star Game before (or anywhere close), went to Mid-Summer Classic in all his first four years in Brooklyn, the best of which was in 1941. That season, he led the NL…
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Mike Scioscia played his entire career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, showing cerebral prowess, the ability to manage a pitching staff, and good enough hitting for a team as celebrated as the Los Angeles Dodgers kept him for well over a decade and the entirety of his MLB career. Catchers are expected to be cerebral, but Scioscia took that to another level by learning Spanish to best communicate with the Dodgers ace, Fernando Valenzuela. A two-time All-Star, Scioscia was considered one of the best in his era in handling a pitching staff, and he did compile 1,131 Hits offensively for Los…
"Pistol" Pete Reiser might be one of the biggest "what could have been" in Dodger history, as very few players on the diamond lost greatness so quickly due to injuries. Reiser was pegged to be a star by St. Louis Cardinals management, and they were dismayed when he was one of the Minor League players that Commissioner, Kennesaw Mountain Landis, deemed free agents. Cardinals GM, Branch Rickey, had an agreement with the Dodgers, who signed Reiser to trade him back to St. Louis, but Brooklyn Kept Reiser, and Rickey, himself, would join Brooklyn in 1943. Reiser made it to the parent…
The first six seasons (1926-31) of Babe Herman’s career were an impressive blend of Batting Average and power, leading to high popularity among the Robins fans. Herman debuted in 1926, becoming an everyday player as a rookie, and he was a good batter with a .319, 35 Doubles, and 11 Home Runs. Dropping to .272, Herman went on a three-year streak where he batted at least .340. As good as he became as a hitter, he was also known for his eccentric behavior and basepath blunders; he twice stopped to watch Home Runs go over the wall and was passed on the…
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.