Everywhere, see if you can name the teams that have won the World Series every year in the last decade. Are you ready? Don’t wink. The answers are, of course: 2011: Cardinals over Rangers 2012: Giants over Tigers 2013: Red Sox over Cardinals 2014: Giants
Everywhere, see if you can name the teams that have won the World Series every year in the last decade. Are you ready? Don’t wink. The answers are, of course:
2011: Cardinals over Rangers
2012: Giants over the Tigers
2013: Red Sox over Cardinals
2014: Giants over Royals
2015: Gifts over the Mets
2016: You put on Indians
2017: Astros over the Dodgers
2018: Red Sox over the Dodgers
2019: Citizens over Astros
2020: Dodgers over Rays
If you found it difficult, today I will try something even more difficult: I will guess the next 10 winners of the World Series. It is worth noting that I did this exercise last year and I absolutely did not understand the year 2020.
OK, let’s give it a shot. If I don’t get 2030 right, please don’t come back in 10 years to make fun of me for it. I will be old and weak and I will not rise to all the agitation.
2021: Dodgers over the Yankees
Now that the Dodgers have finally gotten one, they are more likely to win more titles, not less. After the last decade they had, they probably should have earned more; their luck is about to change, especially since they are still pretty much the best baseball team. Los Angeles has been too strong in recent years to become just a one-time team. Dodgers are ready to get at least one more. The Yankees are the choice in the American League, almost by default. Is it possible that there are four better teams (Dodgers, Padres, Braves and maybe even Mets) in the National League than in the AL?
2022: Dodgers over Angels
Yeah, it might as well turn it into three peat, right? There’s no reason to believe the Dodgers won’t continue to improve, but the real leap here is the Angels, obviously. Hope here? There are a few pitchers, Shohei Ohtani is finally healthy for an entire season, Mike Trout has another MVP Award winning year and then hits a homer to win the AL Championship Series. A Southern California series sounds like an explosion, actually.
2023: White Sox over Padres
The parents’ misfortune is to be in the same division with the Dodgers, but it is also in their eternal belief that this reality pushes them to press the gas harder, rather than hitting the brakes. Here is what we assume will be rewarded in 2023, when all the young stars are at the top, with their first appearance in the World Series of the new century. Unfortunately, they meet in a team with an equally young talent. They are the two most interesting baseball teams in ’21, imagine what they will be in ’23.
2024: Father over the Red Sox
It’s hard to imagine that the Red Sox stay down too long, although it can take them so long to turn back. Meanwhile, the parents, hungry after losing last year, receive a Reggie-esque World Series from Fernando Tatis Jr., who will be only 25 years old.
2025: Braves over Blue Jays
Atlanta won only one title in the Maddux-Smoltz-Glavine years and it turns out to be 30 years until its next, in case you didn’t feel old enough. It would be incredibly frustrating for Braves fans if they don’t make the World Series in the next four seasons, but this year, against an agency that will soon be free, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Jays, is the year that compensates for all this. And Ronald Acuña Jr. finally becomes the Atlanta legend, we all know he will.
2026: Mets over the Yankees
Speaking of anniversaries … how about 40 years? The nice thing about Steve Cohen’s aggressive moves as the new owner of the Mets is that he doesn’t seem to have a time limit. He’s not just trying to win the next few years, in any window: he’s just trying to win. If he manages to extend Francisco Lindor, this could be the year the Mets finally get over the hump. They will keep trying until they get there. Do you realize that the only teams that were in the NL when the Mets last won the World Series that haven’t won one since are the Pirates and Padres? Is it a race to see who gets one first? And if the Mets do, shouldn’t it be over the Yankees?
2027: Orioles over the Giants
Looks like it will be about this time when both teams will reach the top, right? Two smart offices, with passionate fan bases, deeply invested in earning them. Each will certainly show progress in the years leading up to this. This is the one I finally break through.
2028: Dodgers over the Tigers
Dodgers have not been mentioned for some time, but there is no doubt that they will be good every year in this decade. We don’t know many players who will certainly be on the list until then, but we know that Mookie Betts (signed until 2032) will, which means they will be a force to be reckoned with. The Tigers are an overly proud franchise that will turn it around so far behind all the young pitching they are cultivating now.
2029: A’s over Giants
It would be great to have another Bay Bridge series 40 years after the last one. Probably this time the elements of the natural world would be a little kinder.
2030: Yankees over Cardinals
The new decade begins with a reverse match between the franchise that has won the most World Series in AL against the one that has won the most World Series in NL.