The Dodgers love to work with the platoon advantage—57.3% of the time, a few notches above both baseball’s average and Boston’s 52.4%—and their roster reflects that, with plenty of mix-and-match pieces that can be configured in drastically different fashion from one game to the next. The Dodgers also love to pinch-hit more than any other team in baseball: 303 times in the regular season, compared to the National League’s average figure of 241. (That’s also more than any team since the 1992 Dodgers, with 304.) In other words, the club’s lineup is very much not a static construct, and you can expect a lot of different moving pieces.
Position-by-Position Breakdown for 2018 World Series: Boston Red Sox vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
