The Rangers won the World Series over the Diamondbacks in fairly dominant fashion and this was slightly reassuring to me. This is because the Rangers were actually a good team in 2023, by fWAR and by run differential, while the Diamondbacks were not really. With the expanded playoffs and all of the top seeded teams being knocked out almost instantly, it would have really been disheartening to see a team with a negative regular season run differential take home the league’s biggest trophy. Some semblance of sanity prevails. This also rewards a Texas team that simply went all-in on winning now, despite the absence of a strong established home-grown core.
Braves News: Texas wins World Series, Sam Hilliard to Baltimore
