How will the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals fare against each other in the 2015 World Series? We’re about to find out.
In the meantime, here’s a thought experiment: What if these two franchises stepped into a flux capacitor-equipped DeLorean and traveled back in time to face themselves?
Specifically, what if the current Royals played a best-of-seven series against the 1985 Royals, the last K.C. club to win it all? And what if the ’15 Mets squared off against the 1986 world champion Amazins?
We’d get some scintillating baseball, for one, and a couple of epically hyped fanbases.
But who would prevail in each of these space-time-bending clashes?
Let’s unpack that intriguing hypothetical by examining the rosters and statistics, looking at each squad’s strengths and vulnerabilities and, of course, adding a hefty dollop of pie-in-the-sky speculation.
We’ll consider regular-season stats for context, but ultimately we’ll compare each team’s postseason roster, leaving off players who may have contributed during the 162-game slog but for whatever reason didn’t factor in to the Fall Classic equation.
These decade-spanning matchups won’t happen without an assist from Doc Brown, obviously. But while we wait for the real-life games to begin, it sure is fun to imagine.