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World Series 22 is here, and it’s a rematch from the 20th World Series between the back to back Champs Baltimore Crab Cakes from the National League and the revenge seeking El Paso Don Juans of the American League. The lead-in to this World Series feels different because Baltimore played the maximum number of games possible to get here, needing 5 games to beat Chicago and 7 games to beat Montreal. El Paso played in more games, but they will have the benefit of the extra rest going into the World Series. After taking out two 100 win monsters in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, they then disposed of their 3rd AL East opponent in Augusta in five games. They will need the extra rest to take on the juggernaut Baltimore that emerged from the dust of the NLCS and is attempting the first 3-peat in league history. Let's break down the matchup.
El Paso is led by justinuv who has been with us since season 15 to turn around a franchise into not just playoff contenders but World Series contenders. They have been in the American League Championship Series the last three seasons and they will make their second World Series appearance. They are led by their All-Star pitchers Walt Ratliff, Bart Ward, and Shane Blevins. Ward is up for the Cy Young and Ratliff is a finalist for the Fireman Award. Brutus Munro rounds out their excellent pitching staff. El Paso’s strength like last time these two teams met is their pitching staff, but their offense has manufactured runs in the playoffs both via the long ball and with small ball. They have 14 HRs and 23 SBs so far these playoffs, and they will need to do a little bit of everything to get past Baltimore.
Baltimore is led by aoscott2 who has been in the league since Season 8. Baltimore brings its own All Star infield in Marquis Affeldt, J.O. Gomez, Neil Andreoli and Caleb Barker and not to forget Henderson Long and Charley Campbell in the outfield. Cozy Kennedy and Yasmani Ordonez round of the list of All-Stars. Long turned in an all-time record breaking Homerun season by finishing second all-time and is now crowned the single-season RBI king. Additionally, they have three gold glovers up the middle of their defense (Gomez, Barker, Campbell) and a gold glover in RF (Cristobal Urias). We could go on and on about this team but you get the idea.
We'll see if El Paso can defy the odds and prevent Baltimore from a 3-peat and its 4th title in the last 5 seasons. Good luck to both teams in World Series 22!
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