Michael Baumann: If you've followed The Ringer's baseball coverage for any length of time, you know I'm an absolute flop-sweating freak for the 2015 Blue Jays—and a return to those magical Ontario days is so close I can taste it.
Ben Lindbergh: Look, at a certain point a person gets tired of picking the Dodgers to win the World Series every year. They're still probably the best team in baseball, and they've won pennants in three of the past five seasons, but their age and depth are big enough sources of uncertainty (relative to earlier Dodgers juggernauts) that there's an opening for the new hotness.