I think that, with additional layers of playoffs nowadays, it’s harder than ever to win a World Series.
Up until 1968, pennant winners in each league went directly to the World Series. Then with divisional play and playoffs, sometimes the best teams didn’t survive.
Example — the 1973 New York Mets with an 82-79 regular season record, defeated the 99-63 Cincinnati Reds in the playoffs to advance to the World Series.
Would not have mattered this year
Yankees still finished behind the Astros
Would not have mattered this year
Yankees still finished behind Astros ……..Y
Would not have mattered this year
Yankees still finished behind Astros ……..Y
Would not have mattered this year
Yankees still finished behind Astros ……..Y
No, this has always been my theory and once again it worked. pick a team that has two killer pitchers, period.
In the regular season you need a five man rotation, in playoffs you only need two that nobody can beat, you don’t even need another pitcher to win a game.
This will be a great WS, with some of the best pitchers you’ll ever see in one series. Astros with Cole, Verlander, and an extra Greinke 21 20 18 wins with a combined win percentage approaching 80%. Astros will win the WS, IMO. With Scherzer and Strasbourg on the other team, anything could happen however.