Baseball is, thankfully, nothing like arm wrestling. It’s not a simple measure of brute strength. The same two competitors can square off over and over, and they have to be sharp each time if they hope to prevail. It’s a new game, with enough complexity to continuously present new demands and new contours, every time two teams step onto a diamond.
By tale of the tape, by whatever hypothetical version of baseball that is like arm wrestling, the 2023 Los Angeles Dodgers would beat the 2023 Arizona Diamondbacks. They won 100 games to the D-backs’ 84.