The Los Angeles Dodgers have a ton of talent.
They've also got a ton of veterans.
With back-to-back World Series titles, the Dodgers will spend this offseason finding how they can still improve, both for 2026 and the future beyond.
One concept posed in a new article by ESPN's Alden Gonzalez is the idea of getting younger.
Gonzalez doesn't suggest that the Dodgers would trade away their veteran pieces for youth. Rather, his thought is that L.A. Would move some prospects for controllable talent at the big league level.
"The Dodgers have a glut of highly regarded outfield prospects at the moment, namely Josue De Paula, Eduardo Quintero, Zhyir Hope and Mike Sirota," Gonzalez writes. "The Dodgers' preference is to pluck from that group to address needs through a trade, according to sources. And though they can use them to access the closer they desire, they can also add young, controllable position players, ideally at second base, shortstop or center field."
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Gonzalez mentions the closer need in that blurb, but there is a lot of relief pitching in free agency. The Dodgers can likely just throw some bags of money there to solve the immediate bullpen need.
That would leave the prospect surplus to help the Dodgers find an impactful young player at the MLB level.
"(Andrew) Friedman's longtime quest to balance the present with the future faces a difficult test with this current construction," Gonzalez writes. "(Freddie) Freeman, (Mookie) Betts, (Shohei) Ohtani and Will Smith will continue to be cornerstone players for years, but the Dodgers will spend some time this offseason wondering how they can plug in more youth around them."
It's a good problem for the Dodgers to have. They're better than everyone else right now. Might as well keep improving anyway.
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