I don't buy the whole "powerful AL team" stigma. Its just a good baseball team. Period. Pitch a good game and play defense and hit the ball and you'll do just fine. Everyone has good and bad games - the key is to have a better game than your opponent on that particular day.
If there WAS a stacked AL team, it would be the Angels. That lineup is crazy. But that's not going to help them.
The Dodgers are just as stacked as Boston, in my opinion. Their psyches are maybe different, because of the relative lack of experience, but I do want to state that they're STILL more experienced than the Rockies were last year. And they have Manny.
I see it as a damn good matchup.
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