Dodgers “Expected” To Retain Dave Roberts As Manager

The Dodgers’ postseason run is over a lot sooner than anticipated, and nevertheless the crew would possibly reply to its upset loss within the NLDS, transferring on from supervisor Dave Roberts doesn’t look like into consideration.  Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Times stories that Roberts “is predicted” to return to the dugout subsequent season.

The information isn’t overly shocking, contemplating that Roberts has but to even start the three-year contract extension he signed final March.  2022 was the ultimate season of Roberts’ earlier contract with the crew, and his new deal will maintain him as supervisor via the top of the 2025 season.

Via seven seasons in Los Angeles, the 50-year-old Roberts has loved sufficient success to place him on a Corridor of Fame path.  Roberts has a 632-380 document over these seven years, and as Harris notes, Roberts’ .632 successful share is the best of any skipper in MLB history who has managed not less than 315 profession video games. (Negro League managers Bullet Rogan, Vic Harris, and Rube Foster are the one managers with a better successful share in any acknowledged main league.)  The Dodgers have reached the postseason in all seven of Roberts’ seasons, received six NL West titles, three NL pennants, and one World Collection championship in 2020.

Amidst that large resume, in fact, successful “solely” one title has introduced some criticism Roberts’ approach, given how the Dodgers have been favored nearly each certainly one of their journeys to the playoffs.  This yr, L.A. dominated the league en path to a franchise document 111 wins within the common season, solely to be upset by the Padres in 4 video games within the NLDS.  It marked simply the second time in Roberts’ tenure that the Dodgers didn’t win not less than one playoff spherical.

The choice to take away Tyler Anderson after 5 shutout innings in Sport 4 loomed giant after the Padres took the lead in a five-run seventh inning, and it joined a reasonably prolonged record of bullpen choices which have backfired on Roberts within the postseason.  Past simply the bullpen, nevertheless, the usually harmful Los Angeles lineup went right into a collective stoop within the NLDS, going 5-for-34 (.147) with runners in scoring place.  It’s arduous accountable Roberts for such a breakdown, and but given the Dodgers’ constant monitor document of regular-season success, nothing in need of one other Collection championship will absolutely quell the criticism.