Which World Series legends will make it?

With two of the three highest winning percentages in MLB history, the Yankees and Dodgers are two of baseball's flagship franchises.

As they prepare to meet in this year's World Series, The Post puts together an all-time team for each franchise and decides who comes out on top at each position:

First base

Dodgers: Gil Hodges
Yankees: Lou Gehrig

Hodges finally received his honor and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2022 after hitting 370 career home runs and being selected to eight All-Star teams. He batted in at least 100 runs for the Dodgers seven times in the 1940s and 1950s. One of the “Boys of Summer”.

Gehrig is the standard bearer at the position – he hit 493 home runs and his lifetime batting average was .340. Along the way, he appeared in 2,130 consecutive games. Gehrig, who won two MVP awards, may have had his best season in 1934, when he posted a .363 batting average with 49 home runs and 166 RBIs.

Edge: Yankees

Second base

Dodgers: Jackie Robinson
Yankees: Robinson Cano

Robinson broke the MLB color barrier in 1947 and became the first Rookie of the Year award winner. A courageous baserunner, his home win against the Yankees in the 1955 World Series is immortalized. Robinson won an MVP award and was selected to six All-Star teams. He finished his career with an OPS of .887.

Cano (named after Jackie Robinson) hit at least 25 home runs in five different seasons with the Yankees. He also won a Gold Glove and finished second in American League Rookie of the Year voting in 2005. PED questions are hurting Cano's numbers – after leaving the Yankees, he was suspended twice for testing positive for banned performance enhancers.

Edge: Dodgers

Shortstop

Dodgers: Pee Wee Reese
Yankees: Derek Jeter

Reese, the prototypical shortstop of his era, was an excellent defensive player without a loud bat. Reese posted a .743 OPS over the course of his career, roughly average for his career. A 10-time All-Star who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984, he was the heart of Brooklyn's perennial pennant winners in the 1940s and 1950s.

Few players in the game's history are as associated with winning as the former Yankees captain. Jeter, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame with 99.7 percent of the vote, was a central figure on five World Series-winning teams with the Yankees and finished his career with 3,465 hits and a lifetime batting average of .310. Jeter won five Gold Glove Awards.

Edge: Yankees

Third base

Dodgers: Justin Turner
Yankees: Alex Rodriguez

After going undrafted by the Mets following the 2013 season, the infielder reinvented his swing by focusing on launch angle. He hit at least 20 home runs four times for the Dodgers and posted an .865 OPS during his nine seasons with the team. Turner received a World Series ring as part of the 2020 team that defeated the Rays. He was a two-time All-Star on the team.

Rodriguez won two of his three MVP awards while playing for the Yankees and played an integral role in the team's last World Series title in 2009. Rodriguez's two PED-related suspensions have him following a career in which he was successful was ineligible for the Hall of Fame, hit 696 home runs and was selected to 14 All-Star teams.

Edge: Yankees

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Left field

Dodgers: Matt Kemp
Yankees: Mickey Mantle

In his 10 seasons with the Dodgers (mostly with teams that didn't make the postseason), Kemp hit 203 home runs and posted an OPS of .842. He finished second in the 2011 MVP voting after leading the National League with 39 home runs and the Major League with 126 RBIs. He also won two Gold Glove Awards with the Dodgers.

One of the legendary players in Major League history, Mantle is considered a three-time MVP winner and the greatest switch hitter of all time. Mantle hit 536 career home runs and played for seven World Series-winning teams. He was selected to 20 All-Star teams and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974.

Edge: Yankees

midfield

Dodgers: Duke Snider
Yankees: Joe DiMaggio

Willie Mays, Mantle and Snider – better known as Willie, Mickey and the Duke – gave New York a special trifecta of center fielders in the 1950s. Snider was neither Mays nor Mantle, but he hit 407 career home runs and scored six pennant winners with Brooklyn/Los Angeles. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1980.

The Yankee Clipper was an outstanding player in his first five seasons and then became a legend with his 56-game hitting streak in 1941. DiMaggio won three MVP awards and was part of nine World Series winning teams. The Hall of Famer hit 361 home runs in his career and struck out just 369 times. This ratio for a power hitter is almost unheard of at any time.

Edge: Yankees

Right field

Dodgers: Mookie Betts
Yankees: Babe Ruth

A former Red Sox MVP, the versatile Betts maintained his stardom in Hollywood over five seasons. Betts won two Silver Sluggers with the Dodgers and was selected to four All-Star teams. He has an OPS of .902 in 587 games for the Dodgers and reached his second World Series with the club this year.

Another former Red Sox star who found success elsewhere, the Bambino pushed the boundaries of the sport in the 1920s and 1930s. Who can forget his 60-homer performance in 1927? (Okay, almost no one saw it.) Ruth appeared in seven World Series appearances with the Yankees, winning four.

Edge: Yankees

Catcher

Dodgers: Roy Campanella
Yankees: Yogi Berra

Campanella was a three-time MVP winner before a car accident that left him in a wheelchair ended his career. He had more than 30 home runs for four seasons. He was a key component of the Brooklyn teams that reached the World Series five times in eight years starting in 1949. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1969.

Berra had a championship ring for each of his 10 fingers. A three-time MVP, he hit 358 career home runs and was selected to the All-Star Game in 15 consecutive seasons. Berra, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972, had a lifetime OPS of .811 in 75 career World Series games.

Edge: Yankees

Designated batsman

Dodgers: Shohei Ohtani
Yankees: Aaron Judge

As the first 50/50 (homers and stolen bases) player in MLB history, Ohtani and the Dodgers appear to be made for each other. There is no bigger star in baseball and the Showtime Dodgers are just the right setting for him.

Judge brawls are events not to be missed. The star outfielder set an AL record with 62 home runs in 2022 and broke another 58 this season.

Edge: Dodgers

starting pitcher

Dodgers: Sandy Koufax
Yankees: Whitey Ford

Koufax was pure magic for five seasons beginning in 1962, when he pitched his first of four career no-hitters. The left-hander won three Cy Young Awards in four seasons and ended his career. Even before he was Sandy Koufax, he was on the Dodgers teams that won the World Series in 1955 and 1959. Then he dominated the World Series-winning teams in 1963 and 1965 and headed to Cooperstown.

The CEO took a methodical approach, winning 236 games in 16 seasons with the Yankees, posting a 2.75 ERA. He twice led the major leagues with the lowest ERA. The left-hander was at his best in the World Series, going 10-8 with a 2.71 ERA in 22 starts. Another Yankees player in the Hall of Fame.

Edge: Dodgers

Closer

Dodgers: Kenley Jansen
Yankees: Mariano Rivera

Jansen saved 350 games for the Dodgers in his 12 seasons with the club, pitching at 2.37. He was a three-time all-star for the club and began his professional career as a catcher.

The first Hall of Famer to receive 100 percent of the vote, Rivera is baseball's gold standard for closers. No one was trusted more at a big point and his 652 saves are the most ever. Rivera posted a 0.70 ERA with 42 saves in 96 career postseason appearances. He won five World Series with the Yankees.

Edge: Yankees