The Dodgers won't be making a managerial change this offseason.
Dave Roberts will return as Los Angeles' manager in 2024, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman confirmed to reporters during an end-of-season press conference on Tuesday.
The news comes less than a week after the Dodgers' latest disappointing playoff exit. The Dodgers entered the 2023 MLB postseason as the NL's No. 2 seed following a 100-win regular season but were swept in the NLDS by the No. 6-seeded Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Dodgers scored six total runs and got fewer than five combined innings from their starting pitchers in the three-game sweep. They became just the second team in MLB history to never hold a lead in a playoff series after a 100-win season, according to ESPN.
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“We need to figure out what we can do differently and how to go about it,” Friedman told reporters, via the Associated Press. “When there’s an organizational failure I think it starts and ends with me. I didn’t do a good enough job."
“Organizational failure means it’s on all of us and we all have a hand in it,” he added. “If this were one person or a small collection of people in my estimation we would make changes.”
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The loss to Arizona marked the third straight year that the Dodgers were eliminated by a team they finished at least 15 games ahead of during the regular season. A 106-win Dodgers team lost to an 88-win (and eventual champion) Atlanta Braves club in the 2021 NLCS, while a 111-win Dodgers team lost to an 89-win San Diego Padres club in the 2022 NLDS. Los Angeles finished 16 games ahead of the 84-win D-backs this season.
The 2019 Dodgers were also bounced in the NLDS after a 106-win campaign, falling to a 93-win (and eventual champion) Washington Nationals club. Of course, Los Angeles responded by winning the World Series in the COVID-shortened 2020 season.
That 2020 championship triumph is one of three World Series appearances the Dodgers have made during Roberts' eight-year tenure. Los Angeles has also won at least 56 percent of its games and made the playoffs in each season under Roberts.
