the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets A face will go to the end of this week in a very student’s return match for the 2024 National League championship series (Saturday, 7:15 pm Easter on Fox).
Both teams added talent to their lists since their last meeting in October, but will this change the result of the series? Fox Sports Correspondent MLB Rawan Cavnerr and Desha Thusar Specifications of the marquee in the City field:
1. NLCS went last year six games, but he still feels like Evading They dominated almost all of this, given that they started things with the closure of 9-0, fled Mets Once again in game 3, above them 46-26 in the series in general. Has New York closed the talent gap between the two teams enough for the return match – and any meeting in the future 2025 – to change this unbalanced feeling?
CavnerNow, with those who evade their current exhausted form, this success does not feel unbalanced. With the heading to the year, we were talking about the evaders, perhaps the best team we have ever seen. There were serious questions, in the meantime, about whether Mets had enough tone to get to where they were hoping to go despite the loading lineup. After two months, Mets have the lowest era in MLB while the evaders are amazing, ranked 22nd. There are still only two members of the opening day in Los Angeles in a straight position, and the evaders needed more roles of bulls trapped more than any team in MLB. You can assemble one of the best promotion employees in the baseball game using players in their affected list alone.
For this reason, I still think the talent of the Dodgers team is completely unparalleled. But at the present time, their decreasing employees are very vulnerable. Although they still win, they did not resemble any time like the strong team that we expected to see. They seem to treat the start of the season to some extent like the rehearsal of the dress, and it is not always easy to turn the key, regardless of how good the team is on paper.
Thausar: Mets may close the talent gap on paper by signing generations like Juan Soto To strike between Francisco Lindor and Alonso HouseAnd engineering Mark VentuzThe hack season last year (and perhaps Brett Patti Success this year). But the way the Mets crime takes place is to withdraw its feet because the beginning of May largely does not indicate how to hit the squad when performing it at its best. Just like Alonso’s Tropert April (. However, the Mets Mets team are not stars, but it boasted about the best era in the main championships throughout the season. Apparently, it needs time.
2. In 2024, the Mets rotation was basically average, but Luis Severino’s switch (100 Era+), Sean Germany (112 Era+) and Jose Quintana (104 Era+) for health Kodai Senga (NL, 271 era+), Clay Holmes (124 Era+) and Griffin Canning (157 Age+) has done wonders for them early. Holmes flourished in relief for Yanxiz In the past few years, before Mets turned to start, Canning fled from gravity withdrawal Angels This is outside the season – is there any reason for the belief that this trio can continue to overcome pre -season expectations?
CavnerIs this trio continue to produce better expectations than the pre -season? definitely. Will these three remain in? this The elite level throughout the year? Maybe not. I see some slope in the future, but we are no longer in April anymore, so you can not only empty the MLB era of the best 2.83 beginners collected before they got Sean Mania and Frankie Montas.
Holmes’s expanded arsenal has turned it into a legitimate start. Six roles have gone in each of his four beginnings this month, although it remains to see how he stands with the roles accumulating. Nothing about Griffin Caning’s basic numbers indicates 5-1 record and 2.47 times, but it maintains the ball on the ground better than ever and attacks the strike area. Senga’s ability to keep the ball in the park is worth noting-it allowed one house to run throughout the year-a bad ghost thorn, but the best era in the National League is approximately 1.43 less than its expected era. It is clear that the general manager David Sterins and the Mets Monument section know what they are doing and this group is better than I expected, even if I do not expect to remain better in the league throughout the season.
Thausar: If there is one thing you learned not to do after the success of the Mets Pitching Matist team (again!) This year, this is to put any expectations of the rotation designed by David Sterins. Last season, the baseball analysts widely believed that METS was in a year of resetting due to all one year’s deals with jugs who were trying to apostasy after years of decline. Then they ended up winning his victory to the world chain. With amazing more effective offers than beginners such as Holmes and Canning this season, Mets in the Stearns era became known for the signing of a group of rag episode arms, playing on their strengths, and exceeding most of the juice from those jugs. If there is any doubt about Canning, which allowed the most profitable operation (99) in the American League last year, most of that was erased after Yanxiz carried two of the runs of 5.1 roles during the weekend. Its start against the evaders will be another one to see it.
3. As for the rotation of the evaders, this is chaos, but this did not prevent them from winning the world series last October as well. What is your expectation to move forward? will Rocky Sasaki I go back in good health and throw strikes? How can the evaders be adopted Clayton Kircho? on AutaniWhenever he returns to the hill? Will Bullpen to survive the current work burden for a long time to obtain answers to the issue?
Cavner: It completely depends on the recovery of injuries, and if there is any silver lining, it does not seem that any of the injuries that depend on players who depend most of them season. At this stage, I do not expect Sassaki to be the maker of the difference this year. I see Kershaw as an important run for eating, and its vision reaches 3000 exercises will be fun, but it is difficult for him to be seen as a person the team can rely on in October. Dodgers need a mixture of Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell and Ohtani looking directly on the hill in the second half. If this happens, it is still possible to end with one of the best units in the baseball game. Until then, Yoshinobu Yamamoto may be the most important player in the team. Evaches need to be ACE now, and he answers this call.
As for toys, it is a dark position until Blake Treenin and Kirby Yates returns. It is almost unimaginable, so those who are already evaded at this stage after renewing this season specifically so that this does not happen, but they are still 31-19 despite the problems of the widespread infection-it became clear that Ohtiani, Moyoki Bings and Faridi Freeman at the top of the squad helps! – I expect the crime to be good enough to keep the evaders in or near the top of the arrangement while waiting for the reinforcements.
Thausar: It is the guess of anyone how effective Sasaki is when he returns, but there is an argument that must be presented that it will look like himself as soon as the shoulder injury is behind him, because it is likely that the pain affects him on the hill more than we knew. As much as Kircho, it appears to be a decrease in speed, though expected, related. The opponents of the opponent can feed on a fast ball with an average of 87.5 miles per hour in five rehabilitation operations this year. But there is a reason for optimism. The result of Dodgers is the difficulty of paying them Yoshinobo Yamamoto To go to the distance, so it is more sweet when it is delivered – as it did on Tuesday night against DiamondBacks. Yamamoto is the only novice that can be relied upon in the rotation of the evaders, and if he can continue to be a plug until Los Angeles becomes closer to full health, the club must be able to stay survived from the exhaustion of rotation.
4. With Mets and Dodgers play in competitive sections full of some of the finest national league. What do you think is likely to be pushed to the location of the wild card, instead of the title of division, despite their clear talent?
Cavner: Mets. He saw the evaders of their erection collapsing again and played as much as possible in two months … and they are still in first place. Padres, GIANTS and D-Backs will be pushed, but when the Dodgers team that leads them is more healthier, it is clear that they are the most talented team in their section. I think Phillies (who have one of the most horror alternately in MLB despite their bulls) and the brave (who exceeded.
Thausar: Mets. Although they seemed dominant within a period of six weeks in the first place this season, they did not finish the mission and have already won the division since 2015, and it is the same year in which they went to the world championship. Although last year, they mobilized some demons by defeating the brave in the flag race and eliminating Velez in Nilds, this does not remove the years of damage to their psyche from these competitors. Unless Mets can stay away from the rest of NL East in September, I expect the winner to go down to the wire. On the other hand, the evaders are scheduled to return back, with many modern examples to secure the title of the section alongside them. (They won NL West on the 11th of the past 12 years).
5. This series is features Mlb“Two players are the highest wages in Juan Soto (15 years old, $ 765 million) and Shahi Utani (10 years, 700 million dollars before he represents a weighting).
Cavner: Ohtani. Without a question. I expect Soto to eventually look more comfortable than it was during the early part of the Mets period, but I am still dealing with Ohtani’s deferred deal-which may be the best deal in the history of sport-for 15 years of Soto 10 times out of 10. If he could not, last year it has proven that MVP talent is still as offensive power alone. I don’t see this change for a long time. Add this ability to unrivedable revenue flows that create, and it is irrational to me. This contract will pay for itself.
Thausar: Ohtani. It is better than SOO, and the way its contract is designed to allow more flexibility in the list and freedom to sign more stars without being installed due to the average huge annual value that affects other decisions. In addition, Ohtani may just return and a playground like Cy Young-Giber Ace again. So at best, you get two players at one price. The worst scenario of cases is that Ohtani is no longer an effective jug, and until then, it will remain strong. While with Soto, although he is smaller than four years than OHTANI, his long -term role with Mets in DH, this may happen closer to that if his defense becomes a real problem. So I take Al -Autani every time.
Rawan Cavnerr He is a MLB writer for Fox Sports. La Dodgers, La Clippers and Dallas Cowboys have already been covered. Rawan was born at LSU University in California, and he grew up in Texas, then returned to the West Coast in 2014. Follow it on Twitter on Rowankavner.
Desha Thusar He is a MLB writer for Fox Sports. She previously covered Mets as a correspondent for a victory for the New York Daily News. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Desha grew up on Long Island and now lives in Queens. Follow it on Twitter on Deeshaathosar.
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