Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz give their predictions for the 2024 World Series matchup between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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Let's predict now.

Predicting is dumb because what do we know?

Right.

I want to look at this first through the lens of what do we want?

Right.

What are we hoping to see from this?

I want the stars to shine.

I want the World Series MVP to be Judge Soto, ST and OTA Pets Freeman.

There's no boring outcome here.

Like where someone has to do something.

It's gonna be, if one of these main characters is horrible, that will be interesting too.

I'm not rooting for that.

But like all of these, the outcomes here, we're just guaranteed something truly fascinating.

So what do we want?

Yeah, I mean, I agree with you.

I think for me, I think it would be really cool to see Juan Soto raise the price of the, of the brick even further.

I as a selfish person, I want this, I want seven or I want five games, right?

Seven because I, I would prefer seven like this deserves seven.

I want this to go the distance.

I want this to go down in history as, as one of the ones that stands the test of time uh prediction do it you first Yankees in seven.

Yankees in seven.

I just think Garrett Cole is gonna do it.

I think he will be dominating game one bat in game four and dominating in game seven.

I think this will be the Garrett Cole series.

I think you will win the MVP and I think the Yankees will raise the trophy and have their 28th ring and it will be great and I can't wait.

I'm gonna go Dodgers in seven.

I feel like the Yankees floor is lower, the Yankees ceiling is higher, their best version of them as we have started to see, although I'm not even sure we've seen it yet is I think higher because of the pitching if you get the best version of those.

But I also think that the flaws of the Yankees we still have seen during this month against teams that are a lot worse than the Dodgers.

And I'm a little bit concerned about that and when you talk about home field, um, I am still ultimately going to lean so slightly towards the Dodgers, but I don't feel good about it at all.

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