Dave Roberts to return as Dodgers manager in 2024 despite postseason failure, team president confirms

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and his training workforce will return for the 2024 season, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman introduced Tuesday. Friedman’s proclamation comes days after the Dodgers had been swept by way of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the best-of-five National League Division Series. That consequence made this the primary time the Dodgers have failed to win a minimum of one playoff sport in a season because the 2006 marketing campaign.

“The collective effort of this group and the culture —  not just, ‘Hey, everyone gets along’ —  going through the clubhouse and watching how everyone is focused, all of our players on how to try to win a game,” Friedman told reporters, including Eric Stephen of SB Nation. “The one thing I can say with absolute certainty — and there aren’t many things I can do that about — as we postmortem, it was certainly not from a lack of effort. Watching the way these guys prepared, cared, and did everything they could to put themselves in the best position to go out and have success.”

Roberts, 51, has been the Dodgers manager because the get started of the 2016 season. He’s collected a 63% profitable proportion and has led Los Angeles to the playoffs each and every yr. Furthermore, he guided the Dodgers to the 2020 World Series identify as smartly as 2017 and 2018 NL pennants. 

CBS Sports’ Matt Snyder lately laid out his argument for why the Dodgers stay at an advantage with Roberts than with out him. Here’s a snippet:

Are there even that many explicit strikes that Roberts made this previous collection that made any person consider a special manager would’ve been profitable? Their pitching used to be in shambles and the Clayton Kershaw Game 1 get started used to be the plan all alongside, a plan made with the entrance place of business. It is not Roberts’ fault that Kershaw used to be terrible. Did he inform Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman to mix for one hit in 21 at-bats? What extra will have to he have carried out to cause them to hit higher? 

Roberts’ contract runs during the 2025 season.