Mar 23, 2025; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani (17) runs the bases in the first inning against the Los Angeles Angels at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

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Dodgers Opening Day 2025: Predicted Starting Lineup

Without Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, how do the Dodgers look?

The Los Angeles Dodgers could field a team of minor leaguers and still somehow be a problem. That’s just the kind of chaos they bring. And now, after ANOTHER historic offseason, they’ve put together a squad that looks like a video game roster.

They went to Tokyo without Freddie Freeman, and without Mookie Betts looking 100%, and still wiped the Cubs clean. So the real question isn’t whether the Dodgers will be a contender, it’s how ridiculously stacked they’re going to look when everyone is actually in the lineup.

Headline arrivals: Roki Sasaki, Blake Snell

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If you thought the Dodgers were done after Shohei Ohtani in 2023, you don’t know the Dodgers. This offseason, they added Roki Sasaki, one of the best pitching prospects to come out of Japan, and two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell.

Additions

LHP Blake Snell (5-year deal)
RHP Roki Sasaki
OF Teoscar Hernández (re-signed; 3-year deal)
LHP Tanner Scott (4-year deal)
LHP Clayton Kershaw (re-signed; 1-year deal)
UTIL Hyeseong Kim (3-year deal)
RHP Kirby Yates (1-year deal)
OF Michael Conforto (1-year deal)
RHP Blake Treinen (re-signed; 2-year deal)
UTIL Kiké Hernández (re-signed; 1-year deal)
RHP Giovanny Gallegos (MiLB deal)

Subtractions:

RHP Walker Buehler (Red Sox)
RHP Jack Flaherty (Tigers)
2B Gavin Lux (traded to Reds)
RHP Brent Honeywell (unsigned)
RHP Joe Kelly (unsigned)
LHP Zach Logue (unsigned)

Dodgers Projected Opening Day Lineup:

Even with a couple of new faces in the mix, this lineup doesn’t look very different from last year’s murderers’ row, led by their three MVPs at the top. Assuming Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman make it to the Dodgers home opener.

Shohei Ohtani, DH
Mookie Betts, SS
Freddie Freeman, 1B
Teoscar Hernández, RF
Max Muncy, 3B
Will Smith, C
Michael Conforto, LF
Tommy Edman, 2B
Andy Pages, CF

Who’s Starting on Opening Day?

The Dodgers will send left-hander Blake Snell to the mound for their domestic Opening Day against the Tigers. A two-time Cy Young winner, Snell signed a five-year, $182 million deal less than a month after the World Series. On the other side will be AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal.

Dodgers Projected Rotation:

The Dodgers’ rotation is what happens when a team collects aces like infinity stones.

Blake Snell, LHP
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, RHP
Tyler Glasnow, RHP
Roki Sasaki, RHP
Dustin May, RHP

Oh, and when Shohei Ohtani is fully built back up, they’ll probably stretch it out to a six-man rotation. Because why not?

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Injuries might change things. So could any weird twists that baseball always finds a way to throw at teams. But as of right now, the Dodgers are exactly what they always are: a ridiculously unfair superteam that should steamroll their way to another ring.

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Freddie Freeman

Mookie Betts

Shohei Ohtani

Mohsin Baldiwala

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Mohsin Baldiwala is a Master’s student in Journalism and freelance content producer who got hooked on baseball through Seinfeld’s hapless George Costanza. The same reason why he’s a Yankees fan. He writes about sports because he believes it can offer a brief escape from the world’s chaos. Even if that means enduring the heartbreak of the 2024 World Series.