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Name your favorite year of Dodger baseball in which the team didn't win a World Series.
I'm going with 1985 - the year of Pedro Guerrero's homer-bashing June, a great team that just missed.
(If you look at Baseball-Reference.com, you'll notice that Guerrero did not lead the Dodgers in games played at any of his five defensive positions in '85 - yet posted an OPS+ of 181. This might have been the greatest utility season of all time - at least if good defense was not required.
What a ballplayer Guerrero was. No way Willie McGee should have beaten him for National League Most Valuable Player.
Orel Hershiser also had a season that compares more than favorably with his legendary 1988. In 1985, Hershiser went 19-3 with a 2.03 ERA.
Anyway, it's 1985 for me. What about you?
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