World Series scouting report: This Dodgers strength could be a recipe for disaster for Yankees

The largest markets.The hugest stars.

A renewal of the most frequently competed World Series.Broadway vs.Hollywood.

Aaron Judge vs.Shohei Ohtani.

Yankees vs.Dodgers.This is just about as Classic as the Fall gets, particularly once you throw in Gerrit Cole, Juan Soto, Giancarlo Stanton, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman.These two teams will have played against each other in 10 percent of the 120 World Series.

Of the 12, this will be the fifth since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and the first overall since 1981.This represents the first matchup of top seeds in each league in a 162-game season since 2013 (Cardinals-Red Sox).The Yankees are going for their record 28th championship, but first since 2009.

The Dodgers are in the World Series for the fourth time in eight years and won in the COVID, 60-game 2020 campaign.They last won in a 162-game season in 1988.So there are a lot of legacies for players, executives and franchises on the line in a best-of-seven that will stretch from Chavez Ravine to The Bronx in two of the most famous stadiums in the world.

Let’s hope the production lives up to the preview.There are some mirror-image qualities to these teams.

Let’s take a deeper scouting dive:We will make an easy assumption that Judge and Ohtani will be their league MVPs.The last time a World Series had both was 2012, with Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera and San Francisco’s Buster Posey.

The last time each league’s homer champ was in the World Series was 1956 (Dodgers’ Duke Snider/Yankees Mickey Mantle).But there has never been a World Series with two 50-homer hitters.A lot in this series will come down to how often the lineups turn over and, thus, how often Ohtani/Betts/Freeman bat for the Dodgers and Soto/Judge/Stanton for the Yankees.

Stanton, coming off the ALCS MVP, is coming home to Southern California and Dodger Stadium, where he has 10 homers and 26 RBIs in 25 games and won the 2022 All-Star Game MVP.The literal leading men for both teams have excel...