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Experts pick World Series winner, MVP - MLB.com

Experts pick World Series winner, MVP - MLB.com

Experts pick World Series winner, MVP - MLB.com
Oct 20, 2020 2 mins, 5 secs

The 2020 Fall Classic between the Dodgers and Rays starts Tuesday with Game 1 at 8 p.m.

The World Series is set to begin, and now the experts' picks are in.

The 2020 Fall Classic between the Dodgers and Rays starts Tuesday with Game 1 at 8 p.m?

ET at Globe Life Field in Arlington (watch on FOX). It's a clash of the top team of each league -- the Dodgers were the No. 1 playoff seed in the National League and the Rays were the No. 1 in the American League, marking just the fourth time in the Wild Card Era that the teams with the best record in the NL and AL meet in the World Series..

But among MLB.com experts, there was an overwhelming Fall Classic favorite: the Dodgers.

Fifty-eight of the 71 voters (82%) picked Los Angeles to defeat the Rays and win the World Series.

After coming up just short in their last two World Series appearances, MLB.com's experts think this is finally the Dodgers' year to win their first championship since 1988.

Still, MLB.com's experts kept coming back to the Dodgers' offensive firepower, which they think will be enough to overcome even the Rays and their deep stable of electric pitchers.

The Dodgers might have the big edge in the polls, but don't expect the road to a World Series victory to be easy.

Of the 58 voters who picked the Dodgers, 49 think the series will last six or seven games.

Overall, 61 of the 71 voters (86%) think the series will last at least six games no matter who wins

"The Dodgers have better hitters; the Rays have better pitchers

The Dodgers have one thing the Rays don't

"The teams are very close in overall quality, but one difference is the Dodgers can afford a superstar like Mookie Betts, and the Rays cannot," says columnist Jon Paul Morosi

If not Betts, the voters think it will be one of the Dodgers' other superstars, like Bellinger, who hit the NLCS-winning home run in Game 7, or NLCS MVP Seager, or even Kershaw, who some experts think will banish his October demons once and for all

But most of the MLB experts polled think it will come down to this: Betts and the rest of the stars on the Dodgers will be simply too much for Arozarena and the Rays to overcome

"He's the best player in the World Series, and his play -- on offense or defense -- will propel the Dodgers to victory."

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