5 Dodgers who are entering their final days as a member of the 2025 team

The Dodgers are finally starting to collect wins at a pace expected for the defending World Series champions, and after concluding their sweep of the Rockies on Wednesday, lengthened their division lead over the Padres to three games. It's their biggest division lead since Aug. 9.

A postseason appearance is basically still guaranteed, but it's no secret that the Dodgers are going to have to clean up their roster in the offseason, even if they manage to win the Fall Classic again. These players will all be hitting free agency at the end of the year and should be wearing different uniforms next season.

5 players who are entering their final days as a member of the 2025 Dodgers

Michael Conforto

The end of Conforto's tenure in LA can't come fast enough for Dodgers fans, who know that he should've been off the roster at the trade deadline, if not sooner. As firm as the Dodgers have been on sticking by the Conforto experiment, there's simply no way they can re-sign him for a second year in LA.

The Dodgers have already been connected to Kyle Tucker, who could easily push Teoscar Hernández to left field while Andy Pages takes up center and Tommy Edman bounces around the diamond. Even if they don't win the Tucker sweepstakes, they just can't keep Conforto.

Kirby Yates

Baseball fans lost their minds when the Dodgers piled Yates on top of their already massive offseason haul, but it's become clear that giving him $13 million after a single good year was a misguided choice for the front office. His 1.17 ERA season with the Rangers has been all but forgotten in the wake of his 4.70 ERA year with the Dodgers.

The Dodgers' bullpen needs a shakeup in the offseason, and Yates will be an easy cut. The relief options set to hit the free agent market do leave something to be desired, but the Dodgers would be better off paying less — and therefore setting expectations lower — for someone else than bringing Yates back.

Miguel Rojas/Kiké Hernández

The Dodgers exercised their $4 million club option on Rojas for this season and re-signed Hernández at the final hour, but they might need to move on from both in the offseason. They need to give top prospect Alex Freeland more of a chance in 2026, should give Hyeseong Kim more playing time, and just need to upgrade the bench altogether.

It's clear that there's a lot of organizational fondness for both, and there's still a chance that the Dodgers take one or the other back right before spring training (like they did with Hernández), but that should be at the bottom of their priority list.

Michael Kopech

Trading for Kopech last season was a huge win for the Dodgers at the time; after coming over from the White Sox, he threw 24 innings for a 1.14 ERA. He's been similarly dominant this season, but he hasn't been healthy. Sure, he's only allowed a single earned run all season, but his work has been limited to 8 2/3 innings between two long stints on the IL (and a meniscus surgery that somehow didn't end his season).

He had a pretty extensive history of injury before the Dodgers traded for him, but it's all caught up to him again this season. Again, the bullpen needs a shakeup, and the Dodgers may be better off signing a free agent reliever or trading for one with less of a shaky history of injury.