Bill Madden: A small-market World Series is best thing to happen to baseball

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NEW YORK — This will probably not sit particularly well with Rob Manfred’s new age analytics aficionados, let alone the army of management proponents for a salary cap, but a small market World Series — minus the Dodgers and all their gluttony and the Yankees with all their home run-or-bust tedium — is the best thing that could have ever happened to baseball. It’s not just about the disparity ...