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Had money on the dodgers . How else do you explain the ball getting stuck on the fence . Miguel Rojas hitting a home run in that spot . Lol.
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Depth of talent often masks itself as seemingly random events that make a difference between winning and losing. The Dodgers won this series because they had better starting pitching and deeper hitting. The mind-numbing part is the Dodgers won in seven despite their lineup being in a near season-worst team batting slump. But, they balanced that out by playing some stellar defense.
Enjoy this, because it is going to add a lot of fuel to the owners who are going to be very firm in demanding a salary cap, and offering the players the sole reward of a salary floor, as a condition to resume baseball in 2027. Of the twelve teams that made post season, only two teams were from smaller markets while eight were from the largest TV and population markets in baseball. Toronto is a large market team.
Those two teams? Cincinnati and Milwaukee. The Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Tigers, Phillies, Guardians, and Cubs all represent the largest markets in MLB. This fell precisely into the laps of the owners who claim that the current player pay system leaves the smaller markets out in the cold.
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I guess I must have imagined the Royals winning the World Series a couple of years ago.
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in The Baseball Gods:
I guess I must have imagined the Royals winning the World Series a couple of years ago.
LOL!!!
It was ten years ago -- 2015, and the Royals briefly sniffed the post season one time since! The Royals had their talent poached by larger market teams as no team can draft and develop fast enough to match pace with the shrunken pace of arbitration and free agency.
In the current system in MLB, the only chance a small market team has is to win the lottery on back-to-back amateur drafts, avoid injuries to those prospects, and develop practically every single one within a few years so that they can learn what play in MLB feels like and then emerge as elite for a few seasons until arbitration and free agency puts at least some of that core talent beyond the team's financial ability to maintain.
The Royals had a cup of coffee and got smashed in the second round by the Yankees in 2024. And yet, the Royals and Brewers have done the best of any of the small market teams and their formulas were both hit the lottery, get a cup of coffee, and get smashed by the predictable large market teams that dominate post season each and every season.
If that's the best response you've got, then I thank you for proving my point!
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in The Baseball Gods:
@SaveFarris_PSN said in The Baseball Gods:
And yet, the Royals and Brewers have done the best of any of the small market teams
Tampa is a pretty small market and I think they have done a better consistent job than the Royals or Brewers.
How big of a market is Dallas or Houston? They are both consistently good and have been for a number of years.
Mets are a large market team. Same with white Sox. Large market does not equal great team. What it does do is allow more chance for error. Yankees/Dodgers can miss on a big ticket free agent and bury it. A small market team can’t afford to have a black hole of a free agent signing.
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in The Baseball Gods:
Those two teams? Cincinnati and Milwaukee. The Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Tigers, Phillies, Guardians, and Cubs all represent the largest markets
Guardians??? Umm…,by what measure?
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in The Baseball Gods:
@SaveFarris_PSN said in The Baseball Gods:
In the current system in MLB, the only chance a small market team has is to win the lottery on back-to-back amateur drafts, avoid injuries to those prospects, and develop practically every single one within a few years so that they can learn what play in MLB feels like and then emerge as elite for a few seasons until arbitration and free agency puts at least some of that core talent beyond the team's financial ability to maintain.
Bob Costas said exactly the same thing in 1998, saying the Royals would never reach, much less win, the World Series.
