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It has been about five months since Walker Buehler recorded the final out of the 2024 World Series, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers their eighth title in franchise history.

If you asked most baseball fans to offer up one lasting image from the 2024 MLB season, it would probably be a hobbled Freddie Freeman, triumphantly rounding the bases after hitting a walk-off grand slam against New York Yankees lefty Nestor Cortes to win Game 1 of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The former Yankees starter believes that New York was the better team in October's World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.