How Analytics Created MLB's Most Feared Team
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Cody Bellinger, Joc Pederson, Corey Seager - they were all developed on the Dodgers and now are MLB regulars.They were on that 2020 World Series team. Yes, they Dodgers do spend on free agents and trades but they do develop on their own talent.
Exactly
They are the best at development and scouting, then trade those assets for players proven to produce in clutch moments. They look for winners not just guys who produce great numbers.
@@The1Mustache3 How do you know this please? How can you calculate players who are clutch?
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te Exactly. How is that done? High school, college and traveling ball play, clutch situations? Test-taking ability in school? How DO you quantify that?
All all stars, one MVP, one WS MVP
Will Smith, who I know is fed a ton of analytical data, should have received a lot more credit for the excellent post season pitching. He called the games. The pitchers for the most part just threw the pitches he called. They had that one run from part of the NLDS through part of the NLCS where they threw 47 out of 51 scoreless innings.
That man had to adjust to what, 15+ different pitchers over the course of the whole season? Unsung hero of the team and a rock behind the plate. Loved his little tag on Verdugo in that last Game 5 out lmao. Presence of mind before the celebrations.
Absolutely!
Not to mention his numbers on allowed steals througout the season keeping runners honest, perfect tags on plays at the plate, everything gets taken for granted but hes the first one pitchers run to when they celebrate
Thank you! Very few have given him the flowers he earned, considering our injuries and uncertainty even during the postseason he master the pitching game with the mounded pitchers
No one even mentions it. He called an incredible world series.
I've been a Dodger fan from my first game in 1959 at the LA Coliseum when Sandy Koufax struck out 18 in the Dodger's win over the SF Giants. True Dodger fans have always loved the team and players but we hated McCourt and what he did to the team. What did a parking lot owner know about running a major league team anyway? The Dodgers have always been a class organization despite the McCourt years. When Magic joined ownership and management we knew things would get much better. Magic was a great businessman here in LA after retiring from the Lakers and owned a number of Starbucks franchises. He would bring his management expertise to the Dodgers. When Andrew Friedman was hired we weren't sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing. But his success has spoken for itself. The last game I attended was game one of the 2024 World Series where I sat in the right field pavilion with my family. And by the way, I just missed catching Freddie's walk-off grand slam which went between me and my wife. A kid siting one row behind us came up with it. As a lifelong Dodger fan I feel blessed for being able to attend some of the team's most iconic games.
It is said that the Dodgers and Giants could be the worst teams in the Baseball and still have a bench clearing brawl in the 9th inning of the last game of the season.
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Thank you for sharing. Hope you will catch MORE homerun balls in the future 💕🤗
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Don't that Fox owned the team for a few years before selling to McCourt. That entire era was a disaster for the team and fans.
@@TheSmarq17 Yes Fox owned them prior to McCourt.
Man this was amazing! Very impressive and informative I love how you break down the business sports. Keep this content coming!
Yes, Lakers take note.
Lakers have the smallest Analytics staff in the NBA. It wasn't set up until Jeanie fired Jim Buss. It was never used for coaching until JJ Reddick became the team's head coach this year.
Magic ran when he had a chance. He gave up 50 million to become a dodger instead of getting paid to be a laker
LeBum's team is well built for a strong first round exit
F the lakers and Lecrybaby
Lakers haven’t had a Dawg like Kobe in a while. Lebron isn’t enough to carry them to an NBA Finals. Dodgers are built differently.
Great analysis! A lot of teams will try to replicate and or will try to beat it. Analytics is here to stay.
The only problem is that ohtani’s contract is bigger than a lot of MLB owners’ net worth, it’s sad that the dodgers are in a bidding war for every single player every offseason
@ except he differed to make less stressful. Any player can do that, they choose not to. Owners can definitely spend they just rather be cheap. Dodgers don’t just acquire any super star, they acquire the RIGHT one for what they want in field and the club house. Here’s an example, the padres, the owner was tired of losing to the dodgers what did they do? They went and signed super stars and the padres have been giving the dodgers a hard time in these past few years.
"I mean, anybody who's not building a team right and rebuilding it using your model? They're dinosaurs. They'll be sitting on their ass on the sofa in October, watching the Dodgers win the World Series."
It's absolutely fascinating how everyone, including some Dodgers fans conveniently developed a selective memory about Ohtani's injury in game 2, magically erased the fact that he was basically playing with one arm tied behind his back throughout the entire World Series. I mean, really, how dare he not hit home runs with a dislocated shoulder as if he’s in some kind of superhero movie? Clearly, he should have just shrugged off that pesky medical condition and swung for the fences like nothing happened, right?
They also completely glossed over the fact that, before the injury, Ohtani was the one who tied it up 2-2 in the 8th inning of Game 1, like he didn’t set the stage for Freddie’s grand slam heroics that shattered the Yankees' morale, playing a massive role in swinging the WS momentum in the Dodgers' favor.
It's like these casuals took a crash course in unrealistic expectations. Do they think Ohtani is some kind of wizard who can snap his fingers and make injuries vanish? One can't help but wonder if these critics were dropped on their heads as infants. To expect a player, literally battling through pain, to still dominate and then berate him for not living up to those impossible standards is, well, as baffling as expecting a fish to climb a tree.
Sound like fake Dodgers fans.
That's kinda the issue with being a superstar, same for Judge frankly. People begin to forget how freakish it is that they're so consistent and when something happens that puts them in a slump, they're suddenly like "ope they actually suck!!"
no lol. hitting a baseball is hard and they're gonna face the best pitchers in baseball who have SPECIFICALLY studied getting them out for those 7 games. Outside of the pitching staff failing, they SHOULDN'T be getting hits.
This Dodger fan knew... it's a miracle he could play at all. I'm worried about long-term effects from that like Cody Bellinger had. Some people thought...oh he is playing now...he is alright...that's not the way it always works.
They are just haters that Shohei isn't on their team.
@@SuperJay12jay Yep...that is what it comes down to.
That was superb. I usually don't give a hoot about how a front office works (aside from producing winning teams), but Joe Pomp actually made this something that can be understood by the lay person.
Your information on defferals is incorrect. The money gets put into an account the same year the player plays. So Ohtani got 2 million this year, and then 46m is put in an account and in 10 years that 46m should be 68m and then it is paid to Ohtani. That means that he counts as 48m on the payroll for this year, same as next year etc. Then in 10 years when his contract is up his contract will no longer count towards payroll. So the team pays 48m, but Ohtani gets 2m now and 68m in 10 years.
Yes. It's important to note that only 2M counts against the cap.
To clarify, the deferral totals 680 million, not 68 million over the ten years. He gets 2 mil a year with 68 mil deferred, each year for 10 years, not once.
@@markcobb8253no, it’s about 45 million that gets counted towards the CBT. They have to use the NPV of the contract.
To clarify, the sum is put into an account... but Ohtani does not get the interest, the Dodgers do. The account value needs to be maintained at 46 million, not more. So the interest is paid to the Dodgers likely monthly. It's an important footnote.
@@markcobb8253 No, his contract counts as 48 towards the salary tax.
Dodgers were a premier scouting org before Andrew Friedman. Now its both.
I remember reading that McCourt was close to closing operations in the Dominican Republic. He was about to kill our farm system too
@@annquach6613 Logan White (now with the Padres) ran a fairly successful scouting department. The old regime drafted well, most notably Kershaw, Kemp, and Martin, but did not seem to consistently churn out a stream of useful major leaguers every year.
The biggest difference under Friedman is better player development and a willingness to trade all but the most promising prospects for immediate needs.
Thank you for this, I love how Yankees fans of all people say we bought our championships. No shit, we learned it from yall! This proved the long road we took from 2011 until now. Well done.
$4 billion of the $8 billion TV deal the Dodgers signed goes into revenue sharing. I’m so sick and tired of teams like the Pirates complaining that they can’t compete even though they are getting $105 million in revenue sharing every season before they even begin to start counting their own revenue. There is no excuse to have a $72 million payroll when they are getting $105 million strictly to help the team be competitive. Their revenue might not be 350-400 million per year like the Dodgers but it’s well over 200 million with revenue sharing. Fans need to stop complaining about the Dodgers spending and start calling out these owners that are blatantly lying about their finances so they can pocket as much money as possible. They are depending on fans being ignorant about revenue sharing, without that ignorance they can’t get away with the bs they have been pulling
As someone who has been born and raised in Pittsburgh, and a lifelong Pirates fan. I totally agree with your statement. Through revenue sharing, The Pirates revenue in 2023 was 309M. But they spent only 120M. Which is 38.8%. The Dodgers revenue in 2023 was 549M. And they spent 330M. Which is 60.1%. Not only is Pittsburgh get revenue sharing. They aren’t even spending the money they do have as much as the other big market teams. Nutting the Pirates owner is just running it like a business and is not even trying to win. MLB should make a rule that says with revenue sharing, all teams in the league must spend the same % of their total revenue on players and the team. Smaller market teams would still have a lower payroll, but it will least make it more fairer. It literally should be illegal for teams to get money in revenue sharing and then not even spend it on the team.
@@412StepUpthe fool is a bad businessman because winning is how you make money in the MLB. Pirates should move to Utah.
LOL..where do you get that 4 billion from? There is NO revenue sharing--there is a luxury tax that they pay---maybe something in the 30-40 million range? But I agree on the Pirates owners being cheapo--but I also get a chuckle how Dodger fans just kind of shrug about having a 300 million dollar payroll--and damn near spent 1 billion dollars this off season...
I love the dodgers scouting report about the yankees. All talent, no fundamentals. we win.
There’s no one like Ned Colletti who started this dodgers run. And who built those good teams 2017-2018 and even 2020
Facts
NED was good but notbthis good. You have to consider the facts that FREEDMAN was a protege with a cheap team like the RAYS and also unfortunately for NED Freedman is back by a better ownership. Even Ned will tell you this. IRONIC that Ned came from GIANTS and umproved thenDodgers But ZAIDI who came form the Dodgers Is now struggling to get the Giants back up
@ I’m not knocking Friedman but this guy made it seem like he did it all. Ned rebuilt the team with prospects who a lot of them became household names. Ned drafted and was the blueprint for the 2017/2018 World Series teams.
In a nutshell, the Dodgers are applying "Moneyball part deux" with tons of capital and nearly unlimited access or tools to build a near perfect time not only in a short period of time but its longevity as well. 😂
I had no idea Dodgers used analytics so much. Next thing they need to analyze is why so many pitcher arms went down in the same season.
It's been a big stain on the organization...team so into analytics but yet they have the most tommy johns/injuries over last few years..
they know the risk with hard throwing. that's why they had like 12 pitchers to start the season (some on the DL)
They're gonna. Friedman already said before the post-season that they'd do an internal audit and assessment of everything pitching related to see what caused all the injuries and what needs overhauling. Hopefully that helps next season, especially with Ohtani back on the mound.
Friedman already said they will look into this issue
Guys with deep pockets brought in the right people and let them do their jobs without meddling.
100% - both Dodgers and Yankees are massive spenders. But their approach to building a team with their big money is very different.
One emphasized analytics and an emphasis on strong fundamental baseball (baserunning, defense, small ball). While the other emphasized pure talent and HRs to overcome shortcomings in the fundamentals.
You can spend upward of $250m on a team, it doesn’t mean that team is actually any good unless you prioritize the right complementary pieces.
@@marcusstrinidad The Dodgers scouting report was spot on.
Wah wah wah..😄 Dodgers won! 👍. There is no crying in baseball.!
Jerry Jones learn from this? Probably not, Stephen may ...
@@BobSeevers Jerry Jones should learn from Washington. As soon as they got a new owner this season is looking great. The same for the Lions with Sheila Hemp Ford taking over.
Frank McCourt was the biggest tool for a owner. Glad he was forced out
Unfortunately he still owns the parking lot, the only part of Dodgers he wants. So if you go to Dodgers Stadium, he's still getting paid.
@@dyingearth and still takes forever to exit or enter the park
@robertaBooey69 Yes....he shouldn't have been able to buy them in the first place...he wanted the Red Sox but baseball didn't want him for Boston...but LA...they didn't care. Selig even said...they didn't want LA to become the Yankees West...but Boston? Oh that is fine. So Dodger fans suffered for years because of that ass...and I blame Selig for letting it happen.
Those were horrible years.
It's funny that the pundits were saying the Padres were the most feared team until Dodger pitching shut them down in the playoffs. And one can only imagine if Dodger pitching was actually at full strength with all their starters how much better they would have been. They had the best record in baseball with so many injuries. What a deep team!
Because the dodgers showed the padres how to use the money correctly
Padres could almost match big name players but the dodgers had backups to their backups, and they knew how to utilize them.
The sad fact is..the dodgers starters outside of Yamamoto are actually just not that good. Their bullpen does fine, until it doesn't..which was what happened in the playoffs. One game they blanked the other team, and the next they imploded. The Dodgers just happen to have an offense capable of outscoring most teams. That's actually why the Padres WERE their toughest challenge. San Diego is actually the deeper , more complete team. Maybe that changes with a healthier LA next year. But it was a very close call for LA getting past the Padres this season in a way that it hasn't ever been before. I remember in years past where the Dodgers' pitching was shut down lights out against SD in the playoffs. Let's not pretend that the Dodgers pitching was going to get help with no injuries..Yamamoto is probably the only true ace on the team now, the rest are either glorified long relievers, or third/fourth starters like Flaherty or the current crop of rookies. Kershaw is unfortunately done, which pains me (even as a SD fan) to say..and has been for two years or so.
@@epvendetta The Dodgers should thank all the gods they managed to frankenstein a baseball team together that just squeaked by the Padres. Fair play that they DID manage to do it, but at the end of the day, they were the underdogs in that series for the first time in like 20 years...and it was borne out through the regular season where the Padres were one of the few teams to actually better the Dodgers. LA deserves a lot of credit for having the record they did after the break, but the Padres were every bit as good. The difference was basically the LA bullpen just happened to have a good day when it counted most in a series where they were mostly erratic. Plus Freeman and Edman just having a great post season overall.
@@therealjaystone2344 If you mean they just bought four of the best players in baseball...I mean..sure. I don't think that's some sort of genius game.
This video was incredible.
Become a fan after the 17/18 runs, had no idea they were in the dumps just before this. Thanks for doing this piece!!
You can count on the Dodgers to be tough next year as well.
Don’t forget the farming system. One of the best.
Dodgers players work on the fundamentals every freaking day.
The Yankees obviously DONT and it showed in the Yankees sloppy defense.
Also the Dodgers had a scouting report that pointed out EVERY SINGLE Yankee deficiency and they WORKED to exploit those deficiencies.
Excellent presentation. I watched every second. Thank you.
I own a Gagne and Nomo jersey. Im adding a Treinen one now.
Gotta say Dodgers have now got entire Japan in their fandom that's crazy cause now that is gonna profit them millions to spend building more Japanese players based team
Very informative on how this is illustrated
The analytics in their scouting report was also dead on. The Yankees are superstars but put the ball in play and they don't have the fundamentals which is exactly what happened.
Mookie Betts is not the only player with three rings. Will Smith, the pitcher, has three: '21, '22, and '23. Three consecutive years with three different teams even though he didn't pitch in the series in '22. Will Smith, the catcher, has rings for '20 and '24, making it five rings in five consecutive years for someone named Will Smith.
He's the only active POSITION player with 3 rings.
Great, well written informative article. Thank you, very interesting watch. Go Blue.
6:17 Betts isn't exclusive owner of that title. Pitcher Will Smith won with the Braves in '21, the Astros in '22, and the Rangers in '23.
The wall street guys quickly understood that the way to increase the value of a team is to win. Win a lot. As a result, their investment has tripled in value in just 12 years.
Red Sox Fan.. I Love how the Yankees are getting a taste of the medicine they served up to the rest of the league in the previous century : Money. They are being outspent as they did to all competition for decades. But unlike their poorly managed spending which led the NY fans into a delusional sense of superiority , the Dodgers are actually earning their victories by spending wisely and scouting wisely. Heretofore NY just threw more money at free agents as their business model, and since no one else could compete for the top talent, they won more games. ( until John Henry came along and Epstein) .
Right now, the Yankees are the emperor with no clothes. Mystique officially annihilated . Go Dodgers!
It should be noted that the Mets hired the Dodgers former head of analytics Ben Zauzmer. He was named him Asst. GM in 2022.
Fun fact: Ben Zauzmer does the moneyball analytics of the Oscars every year (called Oscarmetrics).
Mark Cuban owning the Dodgers? @#$% that!
thats billionaires for you. buying property everywhere.
Credit to Ross Stripling for basically saying that the Dodger algorithm suggested he be traded.
Will Smith the pitcher would like a word about Betts being the only active player with 3 rings.
Hard to explain what happened in 2021 and 2022 - but still among the best teams currently.
If the kept some of those guys they traded for their infield would look like this. Freeman, trea Turner, Seager, machado.
Not Machado.
Machado is toxic. Dodgers are obviously stronger with their current roster.
The Braves made epic mistake with FF5. He could’ve easily stayed in ATL ugh. Oh well congrats dodgers
As a Dodgers fan, I love having Freddie, but I wonder if the Braves were having discussions with Matt Olson while in negotiation with Freddie. It seems like that the Olson signing got announced almost immediately after Freddie signed with the Dodgers. If Olson is a consolation prize, he's a pretty good one. He had a massive 2023 and a respectable 2024... And it HAS been reported here that Freddie wanted to stay with the Braves, and I can't blame him considering how successful he had been in Atlanta.
I feel like I’m going crazy reminding everyone that Joe Kelly has the exact same 3 rings as mookie 😂😂🏆🏆🏆💙
if they keep this team together and stay healthy, this could be a dynasty. best run team in baseball.
There’s a story that the Rays had so many analysts that once Friedman left, some of them moved into his office temporarily.
Great analysis. Thanks for sharing. I loved the movie Money Ball too.
Also imo, we averaged low fan attendance one year due to fans being upset with frank mccourt drama and fan safety concerns i.e the brian stowe incident
Great breakdown Joe. Sucks for this rest of the league. This does not sound like this Dodgers will be going anywhere any time soon.
Now this is some good info
great video. subscribed.
Its easier to compete when you play in the 2nd biggest Market. The TV deal is not a strategy move, its a given. Obviously the LA market is bigger than the Kansas city market lol. So there is more money in a LA tv deal than KC, Cleveland, Tampa bay ext....
Yes, but before "analytics" there were baseball people who knew the game, knew the opponents and came up with success or failure. Being just an average fan I'd rather see the humans on the field figure out how to get opponents out..the human element could bring back "heart", "experience", "dare" as the deciding factors. The Dodgers won because they are the better team. Analytics probably played a part, but it sure doesn't deserve "front page".
Moneyball existed in 02
It also helps when you spend more than everyone else.
So what your saying is, this is the Rays fault because Friedman left that people dont like Dodgers. As a Rays fan, we really are cursed.
Yup, if the Rays had not been so successful year after year on shoestring budgets, Friedman would not have had the profile he did and the Dodgers probably don't sign him. I think the 'smartly run' franchise angle doesn't give enough credit to the Rays. You are really the epitome of how it should be done. The Dodgers story is the story of what happens when organizational smarts gets paired with epic resources. Whoever does talent evaluation in Tampa Bay is great at the job. Staying on budget often means trading the players you've worked so hard to develop just before they hit the big money. In order for this to work, you have to trade your veterans for the right prospects. The Rays do this better than anyone... The Red Sox were OK dealing Mookie Betts to the Dodgers four years ago for guys like Alex Verdugo and Jeter Downs. Verdugo just made the last out in the World Series.... as a Yankee!
Blessings from Taiwan 🇹🇼 🥳
Thank you for your analysis 🤓👍
Go Dodgers ✌️ 🏆
Jesus loves everyone 😇💓
Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan.
Dave Roberts coaching is a master class.
Spending money helps, too. And that’s not meant as criticism.
With all these analytics and you trade Yordan Alvarez for Josh Fields
You conveniently left out where the Dodgers flamed out the last 2 postseasons and only won 1 playoff game while Betts and Freeman completely disappeared. It took spending a ton more on Ohtani to get them over the top for one season.
True. But baseball is baseball. Dodgers are already favored for next year, but does that mean anything? Nope, not until the games are played. Anything can happen. So, while you're right Mookie and Freddie absolutely disappeared in 2022 and 2023, it's also true that they obviously made significant contributions this year. No one in baseball succeeds ALL the time. Hall of Fame hitters fail more the 65% of the time....
@@davidmiyahara4865the point is that the Dodgers are far from the most feared franchise in the game. Before winning this World Series they were the laughing stock simply because of how many times they have come up short even though they have had stacked teams. The Dodgers odds are very slim to repeat next season even though they will address their starting rotation.
@@1080p120hz Agreed. My point is that this is baseball, so I think EVERY team has slim odds to win. No matter how talented you are, anything can happen. BTW, I don't think the Dodgers are 'feared' either, nor should they be. If you're afraid of playing someone, you don't belong on the field.
As for the last 2 years, I agree the rest of baseball might be laughing that the Dodgers fell short, but that only accounts for 2 years and in 2023 the Dodgers entered the playoff with a WORSE starting pitching situation than they had this year (Lance Lynn made a playoff start!). Not hitting certainly didn't help, but that was a highly flawed team, and the D-Backs exposed them and deserved to win.
@ Atlanta won the World Series without their best player in ‘21. They were thinking once Acuña returned that they were going to run off a mini dynasty and they haven’t been able to get out of the first round ever since. Dodgers won’t likely repeat or won another World Series anytime soon, the odds are against them whether they address the starting rotation or not.
@ Dodgers starting pitching wasn’t any better this postseason either.
Before game 4 of the NLDS I saw a stat where the Dodgers had not had a starter go into the 6th inning in the postseason since the ‘21 playoffs. I would need to verify this but I believe they only had a starter pitch into the 6th inning this postseason maybe only twice.
Blake had to deal with top of the line up too! Made like easier for walker. Both of them clutch afffff
All of LA was happy when frank put the team up for sale
add to this their newly found financial windfall --they are estimating the Ohtani brought in as much as $120M of new revenue this year. because of him, they can outspend all the other teams, yankees and mets included (unless these other team owners are okay with running their teams at a loss). they estimate that he attracted 300,000 Dodger tour visitors from Japan this year --imagine the revenue. his 700M contract was a genius investment that I don't think they even realized at the time.
The deferment is somewhat genius. But will that come to bite them later? Not sure how this will work out.
It's easy to beat the system with that amount of money the Dodgers rake in...
They have not figured out how to keep pitchers healthy. Once they do that, they will be unstoppable.
LA Dodgers are #1. We get it
You forgot to mention market size at the end.
At the end of the day, analytics is just another tool. You've given an example of how a smart management team (real live humans!) running the Dodgers used it to good effect, both to build the team and to help with in-game management. As a Yankees fan, I can tell you just how badly my team over-relied on analytics throughout the season, and how our dumb GM and an even dumber Manager could never figure that out in time for the World Series. It's why we lost even though we outspent the Dodgers by $50M+.
Analytics is just mathematics
When you start talking analytics about a moment that was anything but analytics, you lose my attention. Trienen was gassed. That was just some man stuff that you can't explain in a RUclips video.
Lakers take note
Could you imagine if the nba had no salary cap🤯😂
Just imagine if some billionaire bought out the Dodgers and brought them back to Brooklyn... 🤩💯
Think about Every Brooklynite wearing a Yankees cap ...oh my 😮
Treinen is so nasty. If only he could stay healthy he would be one of the best closers in the game. He seems to only be able to stay healthy about once every three years.
Meh............ not really. Analytics didn't help all that much, especially when they lost most of their starting elite pitchers and had to scramble their bullpen guys, who all performed admirably. Had they got whacked, it would have been different.
Either way, the bat had to still perform, and they did that, even though Shohei was basically just a placeholder at the end.
But regardless of the analytics, they still had to bring it. OK sure, the only real analytics that seemed to fit well and actually paid off were the fact that the Yankees can't run the bases and are really poor at coordinating the defence.
You still have to always bat well in baseball, no matter who is pitching. You have to get runs.
You could buy whoever you want, but if they don't show, then you'd be saying the money doesn't matter, the scouting doesn't matter.
I mean how lucky were they that Shohei came around to be available, and that this deal was even permissible? The MLB can be a joke in that sense, where they don't have a law or rule about deferrals and taxes - they could just as well as have had a rule in place where they FORCE the players to take a certain salary, no deferrals allowed, and the team has to meet a certain quota for paying the players' salaries every year ON TIME. It' such an iffy league, the money floats around as if they don't ever have to pay anybody on time.
It's the Dodgers' second World Series win in FIVE years (not four).
imagine If the dodgers didn't have the injury issues
It would take years for another team to build an analytics dept. like LA. It is AI for MLB.
Where’d the $600M in annual revenue number come from? Never heard that
It all started when they invite the blue women from japan
Dodgers' roster is top heavy aka old
Analytics don’t hit catch or throw the ball. The flesh and blood players do. The analytics may or may not help. Sometimes they stifle talent. I don’t think Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Pete Rose, Ted Williams, etc., etc., etc. even heard of analytics. They just played!!
This is nothing new. Ever heard of the 2002 Oakland Athletics and "Moneyball"!
I wish i had their analytics in my bank account
Money made his team not analytics.
Like moneyball except they actually have money
Noob here,
Why is called world series if it is only played in The USA and occasionally in Canada?
So, what did that have to do with the pitch he threw?
Am I the only one who can't tell when he says Billion or Million?
The Padres bat’s got cold. Thats all that happened.
My Raiders, Lakers take note.
It also helps if you dont choke when the lights get bright.
I wish they got the parking lot too 🙄
That idiot frank mcourt is still fleecing the team
"A very Italian-sounding name"??
SECOND win in FIVE years...not 4
Finally in 2024 no more Kim K coverage 24/7😂😁😬
Frank " The Leech" McCourt
What’s more Italian? Rizzo or Capobianco?
Baseball is going to need to change from the Luxury tax system to a salary cap and sharing all TV revenue, or it will just be the richest teams in the World Series.
It's mostly just luck when you win a championship--timely hits, players getting hot at the right time, balls bouncing perfectly, etc.. This group just had the perfect chemistry, while the other high profile signings didn't work out.
That’s true
Chris Taylor
Analytics? They spent four times the salary cap in a single offseason is how they did it lmao bruh 🤦♂️