We just got through what was, ultimately, a pretty good World Series. Despite being at opposite poles financially, the Rays and Dodgers represent the cutting edge of team construction, player development, and talent optimization. Whether or not this hyper-commodification and financialization of the game is good is a story for another day. If there’s one takeaway from the series, and pretty much all of October, it’s that in 2020, despite what their schedule suggested, the Cleveland Indians were not a contending team.
Of course they weren’t, you’re probably saying. They got absolutely obliterated by the New York Yankees in the first round.