At this time next week the 2015 World Series will be underway. We already know one pennant winner (Mets!) but are still waiting on the other. Regardless of which team wins the ALCS, this is the first time in history two expansion era teams will meet in the World Series. At least one of the original 16 franchises has played in every other World Series. Wild. Anyway, I have some miscellaneous thoughts to share.
1. Masahiro Tanaka‘s elbow surgery stinks. It’s not the surgery we’ve all been fearing, the seemingly inevitable Tommy John surgery, but getting a bone spur removed is not nothing either.