Dodgers News: Analyst Expects Orioles to Go Deeper in Playoffs Than LA

Two of baseball's best in 2023.

Ranking high in their divisional standings all season long, two teams that are all but assured to make the 2023 playoffs are up for debate on how far they'll go in the postseason. 

Despite more experience over the past decade of work, one analyst has the Dodgers losing earlier than one of baseball's biggest surprises returning back to the playoffs for the first time in a while. 

Who will make a deeper Postseason run: Orioles or Dodgers?

"I think the Orioles have a better chance to go a little further." - @MadDogUnleashed #HighHeat | @alannarizzo | #Birdland pic.twitter.com/nt53yAuN8w

— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) September 14, 2023

Without playoff baseball since they still had old LA friend Manny Machado, the youth movement has fully arrived in Baltimore in a big way. 

Reaching 90 wins for the first time since their playoff core of the mid 2010s, the birds are fully back in town and the Orioles finally have some national hype for the first time in years. 

Led by exciting young pieces such as Adley Rustchman, Gunnar Henderson and others, the AL East leaders have been back in a big way in 2023. 

Though the AL looks far more formidable than the NL this season, one of the prime reasons for such a discrepancy has been just how good the top two in the National League have been. 

Already clinching a playoff spot have been the major league leading Atlanta Braves, but not far behind are the Dodgers with another year of their sustained success. 

Even with questions about their consistency to close out the season, the NL West leaders in Los Angeles are well on their way to another division title with just a few games needed to earn another crown. 

Set for postseason baseball for the first time in many years, the Orioles with some fresh blood will be an interesting case to see if the old adage of experience holding true weight in October. 

Should such a saying ring true, the Dodgers could easily prove Russo's assessment wrong in just a few weeks.