Some believe that the National League West is the most talented division in all of baseball and for good reason. They saw two teams surpass the 100-win mark a year ago with another underperforming and still nabbing 79 wins of their own. This season isn\u2019t going to be any different, though it is clear that this division title race is between just three teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Los Angeles Dodgers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Odds: -150<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Los Angeles Dodgers look to be division favorites yet again this upcoming season. They have clearly established themselves as the team to beat in the MLB. They have a lot of cash to spend on free agents, a stellar farm system and an excellent approach to the game when it comes to coaching and preparation. They didn\u2019t win the division last season despite grabbing 106 wins, but with guys like Mookie Betts, Walker Buhler and Julio Urias on your roster, you can expect great things moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n San Diego Padres<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Odds: +200<\/p>\n\n\n\n If there is any team in the league to constantly make life difficult for the Dodgers, it\u2019s the San Diego Padres. San Diego is led by Fernando Tatis, one of the best and most notable players in the league today. Surprisingly, they only won 79 games a season ago. However, Yu Darvish, Chris Paddack and Blake Snell are just a few of the players that make this team look stellar on paper. On top of that, they let go of Jayce Tingler to grab Bob Melvin, a huge upgrade on the roster. They are unpredictable, but star power suggests that they will be competitive in this race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n San Francisco Giants <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Odds: +600<\/p>\n\n\n\n The San Francisco Giants were the team to somehow walk away as division winners with 107 victories last year. Nobody saw it coming. They don\u2019t have superstar talent spread across their roster but this is a team that never backs down, regardless of their opponent. San Francisco also snagged Kris Bryant from the Chicago Cubs at the deadline last year but it didn\u2019t help them out. It\u2019s going to be hard to recapture that magic they just had, but it is certainly doable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Colorado Rockies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Odds: +10000<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is where the division gets a lot simpler. The Colorado Rockies are likely not going to be competitive at all in this divisional race. They lost Jon Gray and Trevor Story recently to make their roster worse while maintaining very little depth across their roster. This also hasn\u2019t been a super exciting spot for free agents to flock to because of them possibly nearing a rebuild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arizona Diamondbacks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Odds: +10000<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Arizona Diamondbacks are in a very rough spot right now. They tied for the worst record in the league last season at 52-110. This is a group that seems very much in the middle of a rebuild here more than anything, which makes it ridiculously hard to believe that they will even come close to the Dodgers, Padres and Giants. The youngsters on the roster have an opportunity to get this team some more wins, though it still won\u2019t be enough to change their fate in the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some believe that the National League West is the most talented division in all of baseball and for good reason….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21904,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21896\/revisions\/21904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}