It’s very much that time of year again, which is to say that it’s time to prepare ourselves for the 2025 baseball season the same way we’ve done it for the last few years – by breaking down the 30 teams into a handful of nebulously defined tiers.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are undefeated so far in the 2025 regular season. Although it's just two games, the road to becoming baseball's first repeat champions in a quarter-century is underway. A key insider believes that there will be some more history that this team accomplishes as they try to get back to October.