On the part of the Dodgers, the outfielder Mookie Betts With a salary of 30 million dollars per season, he tops this list, followed by first baseman Freddie Freeman 27 million and Teoscar Hernández with 23,500 million. The Japanese Shohei Otani He earns a salary of 70 thousand ‘greenbacks’ per campaign.
In New York, the rancheras don’t sing badly, Aaron Judge has a salary of 40 million dollars per campaign, followed by Gerrit Cole with 36 million and in third position appears Giancarlo Stanton with 32 million and 31 Juan Soto.
Both teams exceed the salary cap imposed by MLB, but there is plenty of money to pay the respective fines that the League imposes on them. In both cases, the respective investments gave the expected dividends, achieving a ticket to the World Series.
In these players could be the difference between a win or a loss in the four games (of seven) that must be won to become champion in the World Series. Predicting who will win is very complex, due to the difficulty of the King of sports.
Bettors in Las Vegas see slight favorites Dodgers over Yankees.
New York’s strong area is the batting led by the so-called “Judge” who commands the Majors in hitting percentage (.322), home runs (58) and runs batted in (133) not even the phenomenon of Ohtani surpasses him in these departments.
The Dodgers’ strength is in the pitching and especially in the bullpen, although it is more worked than that of the Bronx Bombers, the days of rest before the start of the World Series will be a “balm” for these arms. The Yankees arrive with one more day of rest than the Dodgers and if the series extends to a sixth or seventh game, the issue of rest for starting pitchers and relievers will have to be reviewed.
Offensive power of the Yankees against better arms of the Dodgers.
The Dodgers have prepared a series of tributes to remember one of their best pitchers in their history, the Mexican Fernando Valenzuela, who died last Tuesday due to liver disease. The first will be before the start of Game 1 against the Yankees.
Californians will play with the “inspiration” of Fernando and his “fernandomania” that caused so much furor in the 80’s.
