The 2023 World Series is upon us, and some of the numbers in the upcoming matchup are hard to believe.
participants in recent memory. They could be the most unlikely, depending on if you’re wearing your Diamondbacks cap or Rangers jersey while reading this.the results. But if you were one of the bold few to place any amount of money on the Rangers or Diamondbacks, you could be sitting in a pretty enviable position right now.
How rare are those preseason odds? Well since the preseason odds began being tracked in 1985, the heaviest preseason underdog to win the World Series was the 1991 who sat at a mind-boggling +8000! Bigger underdogs than the Rangers, but still a much better chance than the D-backs. The D-backs, should they take home the Commissioner’s Trophy, will have set a record as the highest odds since at least 1985. Those odds of +12500 would be by far the largest of any World Series winner.
However, their resume similarities do not stop there. Each team is also a wild card, guaranteeing this will be the eighth wild-card team to win the Commissioner’s Trophy and the first since the 2019 Nationals. That success has very rarely come up among World Series teams and there is a reason for it. Up until this season, the two teams who committed the fewest errors hadn’t met in a World Series since 1946, over 85 years ago, when the Cardinals beat thein the ALCS and put on quite a show, racking up 10 hits, 25 total bases, and 15 RBIs in just seven postseason games.
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