The Los Angeles Dodgers are staring straight at the possibility of winning their second World Series title in as many years, and their third since 2020. Meanwhile, the New York Yankees have gone 16 years without a parade down the Canyon of Heroes. They have just one appearance in the Fall Classic over that span.
The Yankees are no longer baseball's evil empire, but things didn't have to be this way. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense, and if the Yankees had made these obvious moves, they may have halted the Dodgers' dominance in its tracks and embarked on their next period of greatness.