The club has avoided the Brandon Leagues and Brian Wilsons of their past in favor of letting low-cost free-agents and trade acquisitions supplement their stars. This model worked in both the regular season and the playoffs and allowed the team to invest their vast resources in other areas of need.
- Devan Fink at Beyond the Box Score writes about how this World Series, with two very analytically inclined teams, is a win for sabermetrics in baseball.
- A lot is made of how monsterly big a market team the LA Dodgers are, but really, they are built exactly like a team GM’d by Andrew Friedman.