Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Thursday, October 23rd. It's our 2025 World Series preview, part one of two. We got Derek Van Riper,

You know, Sarah, Trevor May here with you today, and we're going to dig into the tail of the

tape between the Blue Jays and Dodgers. Look at some key areas. We can take a look at this Dodgers

rotation and compare it back to the 95 Braves. I've seen those comparisons popping up in various graphics and across the socials.

We're going to dig to some of the key matchups in the series as well.

Some of the more difficult problems to be solved over the course of the series.

We're also going to have our X factors for the series a little bit later on in the show.

Let's get started with the tail of the tape.

I think it's funny because there's five key areas, right?

There's the rotation, the bullpen, power, contact, and then defense.

And the Jays win three out of five, which I think by my math means the Blue Jays are, in fact,

a better team, the Dodgers, based on this handy little graphic that was a part of the story.

Of course, as you explained with words, which you do very well, that's not entirely the case because these categories are not properly weighted within the graphic.

Yeah.

I mean, I think the two most important, if you're going to ask me, are power and probably rotation.

Although, you know, in today's game, it's about 50-50 between the rotation and the bullpen.

But then you look at the slider for the bullpen, and I would say that that's the closest slider there is on that page.

If there was a 51, I almost, you know what I tried to put?

I tried to put a question mark or an even, but every time I did that, it showed for some reason,

like a maple leaf logo.

So I just, I just leaned into it and said, fine, Blue Jays.

But it's like 5149.

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