The Los Angeles Dodgers recently won their eighth World Series in franchise history and their second in five seasons.
A team has not won back-to-back World Series since the New York Yankees won three in a row from 1998-2000.
The Dodgers have spent a ton of money on payroll in recent years to build a dominant roster, and there’s talk of the superteam’s impact on Major League Baseball.
MLB analyst Ken Rosenthal recently revealed his thoughts on whether superteams are good for baseball.
“It’s got to be frustrating (for small-market teams). Of course it is,” Rosenthal said, via Foul Territory.
Are superteams good for baseball?@Ken_Rosenthal: says that should be disappointing for fans of smaller-market teams. pic.twitter.com/Oasj5JaS77
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There have been super teams in other professional sports, most notably the NBA, but baseball seems to trend toward a few teams that are miles better than the rest.
Although the Dodgers have a high payroll and a dominant roster on paper, they have yet to win major playoff games, resulting in just two World Series titles in the past five seasons despite some dominant regular season records.
Rosenthal questions whether superteams are good for the sport, specifically saying that small-market teams should be disappointed by teams like the Dodgers and New York Yankees.
While it makes beating these teams more satisfying, the money spent on their rosters makes them harder to beat.
The Yankees used to be known as baseball’s super team with their 27 World Series titles, but the Dodgers are the newest club to achieve that status.
It would be interesting to get the opinions of smaller market teams on this issue.
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