The dodgers spent a billion dollars this past winter on 4 players to add to what was then the highest payroll in baseball. I’m sure Dave Roberts is a fine manager but to write as if the dodger way of baseball is the reason for this championship is disingenuous. One could actually argue just the opposite.
Two sacrifice flies won the Series, along with a starting pitcher who volunteered to pitch the 9th with two days' rest. That has little to do with payroll. There are a lot of high payroll teams that don't win because they don't play the game right in the postseason and sometimes that team has been the Dodgers. Payroll has an inconsistent correlation to winning, at best, if you look back through the years. This year was an outlier, if anything.
Still don't know how dodgers are allowed to defer all that money. That's a joke. Would have been more fun if the guardians won
The play at first was another "Mookie" making another 1B look foolish in a World Series (in this case, it was the pitcher's fault for sure).
The dodgers spent a billion dollars this past winter on 4 players to add to what was then the highest payroll in baseball. I’m sure Dave Roberts is a fine manager but to write as if the dodger way of baseball is the reason for this championship is disingenuous. One could actually argue just the opposite.
Two sacrifice flies won the Series, along with a starting pitcher who volunteered to pitch the 9th with two days' rest. That has little to do with payroll. There are a lot of high payroll teams that don't win because they don't play the game right in the postseason and sometimes that team has been the Dodgers. Payroll has an inconsistent correlation to winning, at best, if you look back through the years. This year was an outlier, if anything.