2015 MLB Baseball Picks & Predictions – Bet on Los Angeles Dodgers to Win NL West

2015 MLB Baseball Picks & Predictions – Bet on Los Angeles Dodgers to Win NL West: The Los Angeles Dodgers will enter the 2015 MLB Baseball season as the -200 favorites to win the National League West Division and carry 9/2 odds to win the 2015 National League Pennant and 17/2 odds to win the 2015 World Series according to the current listing of odds at Bovada Sportsbook. The Dodgers are also listed with an over/under for total team wins at 92.5. Can the Dodgers live up to these lofty expectations? Let’s take a look and see.

2015 MLB Baseball Picks & Predictions: Los Angeles Dodgers Betting Predictions

The Dodgers had an outstanding 2014 season that saw them win their 2nd consecutive NL West Division title with an impressive 94-68 overall record. The Dodgers received an absolute monster season from Clayton Kershaw as he won his 3rd NL Cy Young in the past four seasons and also won the 2015 NL MVP Award with a 21-3 record and 1.77 ERA. However, the postseason was a different story for Kershaw and the Dodgers again as they lost in just four games to the St Louis Cardinals in the National League Division Series playoffs. To add further insult to injury, the Dodgers and Kershaw had to sit back and watch their top rivals in the San Francisco Giants go on to claim their 3rd World Series Title in the past five years behind the absolute dominant pitching of Madison Bumgarner.

The Dodgers enter the 2015 season once again the favorites to win the NL West and trailing only the Washington Nationals as the favorites to reach the World Series. The Dodgers shook up their front office in the offseason by bring over Andrew Friedman from Toronto to be the new president of baseball operations and they also hired a new GM in Farhan Zaidi. The Dodgers shook up things big time on the field too as they allowed Hanley Ramirez to leave in free agency for the Red Sox and brought in Jimmie Rollins, while trading Matt Kemp to San Diego for catcher Yasmani Grandal and signing pitchers Brandon McCarthy, Brett Anderson and Brandon Beachy to free agent contracts. The Dodgers will be banking on these moves to shake up the team’s clubhouse and change the way this team performs when the bright lights come on in October for the games that really matter.

The bottom line for the 2015 Los Angeles Dodgers is they once again should have no problem winning the NL West because, frankly, it will be hard not to with the likes of Clayton Kershaw leading the rotation. He is simply the best in the game in the regular season and makes manager Don Mattingly’s job so much easier knowing he has that guy ready to put an end to any losing streak that is ready to get out of hand. The Dodgers aren’t a one trick pony in terms of starting pitching by any means, as they also will trot out outstanding right hander Zack Greinke and the very underrated Hyun-Jin Ryu every 5 days as well.

With Kershaw, Greinke and Ryu leading perhaps the best frontline of any team’s starting rotation in all of baseball, it is a solid bet for the Dodgers to cash in and win the NL West once again at -200 odds and go over the 92.5 total team wins over/under odds. We won’t make any bets on them to win the National league or World Series as they simply can’t be trusted in the playoffs due to miserable outings the last two seasons but we do feel confident putting down our hard earned cash on the NL West and team win odds. You can get more expert 2015 MLB Baseball picks from our top handicappers on our website as we will be having the nation’s premier 2015 MLB predictions on money lines and totals all season long. Good luck.