Above, see if you can put in order the teams that won the world series every year of the last decade. Are you ready? No look. The answers are, of course: 2011: Cardinals over Rangers 2012: Giants over Tigers 2013: Red Sox over Cardinals 2014: Giants
Above, see if you can put in order the teams that won the world series every year of the last decade. Are you ready? No look. The answers are, of course:
2011: Cardinals on Rangers
2012: Giants on tigers
2013: Red Sox over Cardinals
2014: Giants on Royals
2015: Real on Mets
2016: Puppies on Indians
2017: Stars on Dodgers
2018: Red Sox over Dodgers
2019: Nationals for Astros
2020: Dodgers on lightning
If you think it was difficult, today I will try something even more difficult: I will guess the next 10 winners of the World Series. Needless to say, I did this exercise last year and absolutely didn’t get it right in 2020.
Okay, let’s give it a try. If I don’t get the 2030 right, please don’t come back in ten years to make fun of me. I will be old and weak and I will not live up to all the fuss.
2021: Yankees dodgers
Now that the Dodgers have finally gotten one, they’re more likely to win more titles, not less. After the last decade they’ve had, they probably should have won more than one; their luck needs to change, especially because they are still clearly the best baseball team. Los Angeles has been too powerful in recent years to end up being a team with a title. The Dodgers are ready to get at least one more. The Yankees are the choice of the American League, almost by default. Is it possible that there are four better teams (Dodgers, Padres, Braves and maybe even Mets) in the National League than in the AL?
2022: Dodgers over Angels
Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either. There’s no reason to think the Dodgers won’t continue to improve, but the real leap here is the Angels, obviously. Hope here? A couple of pitchers are found, Shohei Ohtani finally stays healthy for an entire season, Mike Trout has another MVP Award winner year and then gets a goal to win the AL Championship Series. A Southern California series sounds like an explosion, actually.
2023: White Sox over Padres
It’s the Padres ’bad luck to be in the same division as the Dodgers, but it’s also their eternal misfortune that this reality pushes them to press the gas harder than it is to slow down. They are then supposed to be rewarded in 2023, when all the young stars reach their peak, with their first appearance in the new century world series. Unfortunately, they come across a team with the most young talent. They are the two most exciting baseball teams on the 21st, imagine what the 23rd will be like.
2024: Parents on Red Sox
It’s hard to imagine the Red Sox staying too long downhill, though it can take so long to get all the way back. Meanwhile, the Fathers, hungry to disappear the year before, receive a Reggie-esque World Series by Fernando Tatis Jr., which will only turn 25 years old.
2025: Braves over Blue Jays
Atlanta only got a title from the Maddux-Smoltz-Glavine years and it turns out it will be 30 years until the next one, in case you don’t feel old enough anymore. It would be incredibly frustrating for Braves fans not to make the world series in the next four seasons, but this year, against agency Vladimir Guerrero Jr. it makes up for it all. And Ronald Acuña Jr. finally becomes the Atlanta legend we all know he will be.
2026: Put on Yankees
Speaking of birthdays … how about 40 years? The good thing about Steve Cohen’s aggressive moves as the Mets ’new owner is that he doesn’t seem to have a time limit. Not just trying to win the next two years, in any kind of window – just trying to win. If he is able to extend Francisco Lindor, this could be the year the Mets finally overcome that hump. They will keep trying until they get there. Do you realize that the only teams that were in the Nordic League when the Mets last won the World Series that haven’t won any are the Pirates and Padres? Is it a race to see who gets a first? And if the Mets do, shouldn’t they go above and beyond the Yankees?
2027: Orioles on giants
It looks like it will be at this time when both teams reach their peak, right? Two smart front offices, with passionate fan bases, deeply invested in winning. Surely, each will have shown progress in the years before this one. This is the one they finally break.
2028: Tiger dodgers
The Dodgers haven’t been mentioned in a while, but there’s no doubt they’ll be good every year this decade. We don’t know many players who are sure to still be on the roster by then, but we do know that Mookie Betts (signed until 2032) will, which means they will be a force to be reckoned with. The Tigers are an overly proud franchise that will have turned this point around behind all the young releases they are cultivating now.
2029: A’s over Giants
It would be nice to have another Bay Bridge series 40 years after the last one. Presumably, the elements of the natural world would be a little kinder this time.
2030: Yankees on Cardinals
The new decade begins with a setback between the franchise that has won more world series in the AL against the one that has won more world series in the National League.