2024 World Series Gameday Thread

Every manager who won 3 WS is in the HOF, except for Bochy, who's not eligible because he's still active. DR would have to be considered a strong candidate if he wins a second to go along with his four NL pennants and all the division titles.

Earl Weaver won just one WS and he's in.

theo broke two curses. He’s first ballot.

And helped add the pitch clock

i crashed, sadly, before the big moment.

Suffice to say, however, what a great thing to have happened !!

The similarities are insane...

www.thebiglead.com/world-series-freddie-freeman-channels-kirk-gibson-joe-davis-channels-vin-scully-01jb3p5cybks

This will get overlooked given the final outcome, but that was very concerning

Theo is 100 percent getting into the HOF. Two broken curses and the inside track to being the next commissioner. It's a lock.

It’s funny, because for as much we might cite the Dodgers as a blueprint for combining spending money and player development… their top prospects and young players over the last few years largely haven’t panned out as hoped outside of Will Smith? Their only homegrown players on the World Series roster other than Smith include:

Walker Buelher - stud pitcher who got hurt, and it’s been largely a struggle since
Gavin Lux - former #2 prospect in all of baseball - who then tore his ACL, got the Yips, and is basically a platoon second baseman
Landon Knack & Ben Casparus as low leverage/long relief in their pen

They have a litany of young starters undergoing or still rehabbing from major surgeries - May, Gonsolin, Stone, Sheehan, River Ryan. Two promising players in James Outman and Bobby Miller who shined in 2023 were below replacement level and sent to AAA. And while the Dodgers have used a lot of their recent prospect capital for trades, to this point I don’t know how many of the teams they’ve traded with are super happy with the results. The Nationals for instance traded a rental Scherzer and 1.5 years of Trea Turner in ‘21 for Josiah Gray (4.84 ERA over a few years before TJ) and Keibert Ruiz (below replacement level via Fangraphs the last two years). We certainly don’t need to dwell here on our major trade with them. Perhaps the best returns (so far) look to be the Rays getting Pepiot for Glasnow and the Cubs getting Michael Busch in a 40-man space clearing trade?

It’s not exactly a flattering picture. But throwing bajillions of dollars at MVP players every other year or so also seems to be working for them

I'm not sure which, cream or clear, Stanton has suddenly been doused in, but it has to backfire soon, no? He's suddenly gone from being the poster boy for wasted salary and medical fragility to a world beater and it's suspect to me that he can keep it up before he pulls another calf-muscle or (insert soft tissue injury here).

My feeling is that the Yankees are a really flawed team being managed by a really flawed manager. The Dodgers are an extremely talented team bereft with injury, and being micromanaged sometimes to the point of unforced errors. The Dodgers clearly should have won more over their streak of dominance yet they seem to invent ways to cock it up. On the other side, the Yankees are consistently overrated year in and year out and the kinks in their armor are apparent over the full schedule of games, but they do just enough... to be there in the end, so... I don't know.

All of this said, if the Yankees somehow manage to win, I'll be happy for Judge, begrudgingly, because he at least seems like a decent dude. f' Kermit, And Soto and his batting box shenanigans, Verdugo, etc. The Yankees have had so many hate-able players over the years, Donaldson, Paul O'Neil, Chad Curtis, Hitchcock, Arod, Knoblouch, Joba, the list could go on, and they weren't just hate-able because they wore the laundry, they were just a**holes.

Go Dodgers, end it in 4 so we can move on to the offseason rumors.

It's not just his guesswork though, he's been unable to post so much the past few years that it is shocking to me when he can string together more than 10 games when he can be in a lineup.