The Houson Astros won the World Series, so now’s the time to jump over to The Crawfish Boxes and try to harvest a little bit of their happiness.
Both of these teams, the Astros and the Dodgers, were pretty great, and it was a really fun series. I think there’s a lesson in here about both the importance and limits of a team-building plan. Years ago, the Astros set a plan for how to build from a last-place team into a juggernaut, and it all worked. Good job, front office.
On the other side, Andrew Friedman’s Dodgers also made a lot of right moves, and they actually had Yu Darvish, a midseason acquisition, set to pitch game seven of the World Series.