The Los Angeles Dodgers were unceremoniously swept in four games in the NLCS by the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers erased an early 4-0 deficit to win Game 4 on Thursday (MIL 6, LAD 4). It is Milwaukee's second-ever pennant and first since 1982.
The Dodgers, for the first time since 2023, are going home ringless. "Extremely proud," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said when asked how he felt about his team's recent run. "It never feels good to lose and not accomplish a goal to win the World Series.
It started back in the early part of February. I love this team and what we had to go through. It's one of those things that every night we take the field, people are bringing their best to beat us." Even with the NLCS loss, the Dodgers are undoubtedly the team of the 2020s thanks to their three World Series titles (2020, 2024-25), and they are the closest thing baseball has had to a "superteam" since the late 1990s/early 2000s New York Yankees.
There was an air of invincibility surrounding the Dodgers right up until the Brewers sent them home for the winter. It's a grueling sport with a long regular season, and an increasingly long postseason subject to more randomness than any other sport. Building a superteam is almost impossible, which makes L.A.'s recent run all the more impressive.
Yes, they spent A LOT of money, but so did many other teams, and none came close to this level of success. Which teams have the best chance to emerge as baseball's next superteam? We can debate exactly what we mean by "superteam" (multiple World Series titles? perennial contention?), but it is one of those things you know it when you see it.
The teams that, if they win the World Series next year, no one would bat an eye and consider themselves surprised. These are the teams with the best chance to be baseball's next superteam. Los Angeles Dodgers: As poorly as they played in the NLCS, and as old as they looked in the NLCS, there's no reason to think the Dodgers won't enter 2027 as the NL West favorites and on the short list of World Series contenders.
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