Hollywood in the World Series: Here come the Dodgers

Hollywood in the World Series: Here come the Dodgers

Now as baseball season whines down we often look at teams that are poise to make that postseason run. Now my focus will be in the National League. Sorry to the good people in Atlanta it’s not the Braves. Yes I know that the Braves leads the NL with 143 Home Runs, 2^nd In the National League runs scored with 538 runs and they are second in the NL in ERA with 3.21 that is without their ace Tim Hudson who is out for the year. Now here’s is the issue the Atlanta Braves that line up leads the NL in strikeouts with 1,020 with means they are a feast or famine offensive.

Now the team that I pick that will win not only win the National League pennant but will be the NL Rep in the World Series is your Los Angeles Dodgers. Now this is the same team that was in last place in a weak NL West and the same team that people wanted the head of its manager Don Mattingly. That was prior to the all star break but since the break they went from last to first on that division. Now you ask yourself how they did it well it start on the mound with my pick for NL Cy Young and be might win NL MVP in Clayton Kershaw. I know he is 11-1 but he leads the NL in ERA with 1.88 that is dominating. This boy can throw as four seam fastball, a slider that will buckle and his change-up it’s a wrap. Oh in by the way his is 2^nd in the NL K’s with 174. Along him you have Zack Greinke he is a perfect number 2 after Kershaw. Don’t let his 3.21 ERA and is 99 K’s fool you. This pitcher can make the best batters in the NL look bad. His toolbox of pitches are four-seam fastball from 93-96 Mph, two-seam fastball from 92-95 Mph, 91 Mph cutter and a 86 Mph cutter. He is a pitcher. A damn good one at that. The 3^rd pitcher of this trio hails from South Korea Hyun-Jin Ryu. He is not the flamethrowers of Kershaw and Greinke. But he will give it you on the mound.

With pitching you must have the bats to come to the party. Those bats are led by my NL rookie of the year winner Yasiel Puig. When the Dodgers call him up the Dodgers are being called the most disappointed team in the NL and a team that money can’t buy. This rookie is batting .373, 11HR and 27 RBI. He is must see TV. His at bats makes you pause and wonder that would Puig to next. He has a glove of Jr. Griffey and the cannon of Vlad. He put a spark in this team in which they are a show in LA and in MLB. Along with him you are Hanley Ramirez who now has matured and grown up. This is not the lazy and let so talented player in South Beach in years past. I know he has not been healthy. When healthy he is one of the premier players in baseball. He has speed, power and will do a web gem that will air on SportsCenter. You have Adrian Gonzalez one of the best bats in the game and once of the best gloves at 1^st base. Andre Either may not be the bat or the glove of Puig. Andre can play centerfield well. They are winning without their face of the franchise Matt Kemp. Now when Matt Kemp comes back healthy this team will run all over the NL all the way to the World Series and you have Kenley Jansen who is one of the best closers in the game. A LA Motown World Series will be a show and that will make FOX very happy indeed.