ATL - HOU position-by-position breakdown [View all]
The World Series starts tomorrow.
Believe it or not, the 2021 World Series will not be the first time the Astros and Braves have met in October. It’s easy to forget now, but Houston spent the first 51 years of its baseball existence in the National League, playing the Braves in the regular season multiple times each year, more than 700 times total. When the Braves moved to Atlanta in 1966, the Astros were the third team to come visit. (They lost on a Henry Aaron walk-off, a pain so many others knew.)
From 1969-93, they inexplicably shared the NL West, preventing any playoff matchups, but then from 1997-2005, we saw five Astros/Braves NLDS battles. Atlanta won the first three, the Astros the last two, and then Houston was off to the American League in 2013.
This now creates a matchup between a team that’s been to the playoffs six times in seven years and an 88-win team that overcame the loss of its best young player to set up an unexpected, yet fascinating, pairing. Which side has the edge? We’ll go position by position.
https://www.mlb.com/news/braves-astros-position-by-position-world-series-breakdown?partnerId=zh-20211025-490409-mlb-1-A&qid=1026&utm_id=zh-20211025-490409-mlb-1-A&bt_ee=w0LNEMCx62KVrwvts5r1zKUv2VgNlujpIch2BUn9v6b6WWBod%2FasLUPDjWX8ACZ%2B&bt_ts=1635168883760
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