Dave Roberts guarantees Dodgers will win World Series in 2022

Dave Roberts is asking his shot.

The Dodgers are profitable the 2022 World Sequence.

That’s what the membership’s supervisor predicted Thursday anyway, making a championship assure throughout an look on the “Dan Patrick Present” earlier than later doubling all the way down to reporters following the Dodgers’ 6-6 spring coaching tie in opposition to the Colorado Rockies.

“I imagine on this group,” he stated. “I imagine we’re going to place ourselves in that place. And we gotta end it this 12 months.”

Roberts first made his declare close to the top of a 15-minute interview with Patrick on Thursday morning, when the seventh-year supervisor was requested an open-ended query: “The Dodgers will win the World Sequence if …”

Roberts briefly paused, then answered: “We play a full season and there’s a postseason.”

Patrick jumped in, making an attempt to make clear: “Wait …”

Roberts continued, emphatically: “We’re profitable the World Sequence in 2022. However I do know the place you’re going with that. We’re profitable the World Sequence this 12 months. Put it on document.”

Roberts reiterated his stance when Patrick requested once more.

“We’re profitable the World Sequence,” Roberts stated. “That’s our focus. That’s our objective.”

Roberts then circled again on Patrick’s unique query, saying: “We’re profitable the World Sequence if our beginning workers stays wholesome. I do know that’s imprecise. That’s my reply. You’ll be able to dig in a little bit bit on that, however I believe it’s about our beginning pitching, preserving our guys wholesome.”

Later, Patrick requested yet one more time: “So that you’re guaranteeing that you just’re going to win the World Sequence this 12 months?”

Roberts didn’t waver: “I’m placing it on the market. I’m placing it within the universe.”

Roberts caught to the declaration following his workforce’s recreation at Salt River Fields, too, when he was requested as soon as extra if he was making a championship assure.

“I’m,” he stated. “I’d be loopy to not.”

Managers aren’t normally so express of their prognostications this time of 12 months, with rosters not but even finalized and 162 video games price of unknown variables forward.

The Dodgers have pretty much as good of probabilities as anybody. With the addition of Freddie Freeman, they’ve arguably the perfect lineup within the majors. And regardless of questions of their pitching workers — Roberts advised Patrick he believes their rotation ranks “someplace within the high 10” within the league and that opening day starter Walker Buehler must be included within the dialog as the game’s greatest pitcher — they personal the perfect World Sequence betting odds and highest World Sequence chance, in keeping with Fangraphs.

However they had been comparable favorites final 12 months, earlier than the workforce suffered a rash of accidents down the stretch, cooled off on the plate through the playoffs and watched their pitching plans crumble in a six-game Nationwide League championship sequence loss to the Atlanta Braves.

Nonetheless, Roberts’ conviction by no means waned Thursday, setting himself as much as be baseball’s model of Joe Namath and Nostradamus — or the workforce to fall in need of the loftiest of expectations.

“I don’t care,” he stated when it was recommended others in sports activities don’t like making such daring claims. “Everybody on this group higher imagine that. Folks exterior this group that don’t imagine it, I acquired no drawback with it.”