The Los Angeles Dodgers recently won the eighth World Series championship in franchise history and their second in five seasons.
A team has not won back-to-back World Series championships since the New York Yankees won three in a row from 1998-2000.
In recent years, the Dodgers have spent a ton of money on payroll to build a dominant roster, and there has been talk about the effect of superteams 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 smaller market teams). Of course it’s frustrating,” Rosenthal said, via Foul Territory.
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There have been superteams in other professional sports, most notably in the NBA, but baseball appears to be trending toward having a few teams that are miles better than the rest.
Although the Dodgers have a high payroll and a dominant roster on paper, they still have to win the big games in the playoffs, which has resulted in just two World Series titles in the past five seasons despite some dominant regular season records.
Rosenthal questions if superteams are good for the sport, specifically saying that small-market teams should be frustrated by teams like the Dodgers and New York Yankees.
Even though it makes defeating these teams that much more satisfying, the amount of money spent on their rosters makes defeating them difficult.
The Yankees used to be known as baseball’s superteam with their 27 World Series titles, but the Dodgers are the newest club to reach that status.
It would be interesting to get the opinions of some of the smaller market teams about this question.
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