At the start of every season, each MLB club begins its climb toward a World Series title. However, five teams have yet to reach the mountaintop. The Brewers and Padres each had an opportunity to claim their first championship in 2024, but neither could f
A Yankees-Dodgers World Series is always worth the wait, especially when both teams are powerhouses. The 2024 Fall Classic was the 12th World Series matchup between the two historic rivals -- the most times any two teams have met in the World Series -- but their first meeting since 1981....
Last fall's World Series featured two teams, the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks, whose presence in the Fall Classic served as the ideal outcome of what were already breakout seasons. For the Rangers, the new champs, it was a breakthrough for the ages. Not every unexpected contender i...
The club captured five straight AL Central championships from 1995-99, making two World Series appearances in that stretch, and another in 2001. Cleveland reached the Fall Classic again in 2016, the first year in a string of three straight division crowns. Best of the rest (teams with at ...
World Series Favorites for 2022 March 31, 2022 | 00:00:52 Could the Braves win a consecutive Fall Classic in 2022, or perhaps the dynamic Blue Jays? These teams are World Series favorites this year World Series
With the season upon us, it’s time for MLB.com’s Will Leitch and Mike Petriello to conduct their annual World Series draft. The rules here are simple: Rank the teams in order of how likely you think they are to win the World Series this year. This isn
Can you pick the teams each of these Major League Baseball teams defeated when they won their last World Series?
All 30 MLB teams have the same goal (winning a World Series, duh), but are armed with different ways to get there, or even different context as to what that win would mean. So, goal-oriented people that we are, let’s identify a goal for each club going into 2024. ...
With the All-Star break over and the second half of the 2024 season beginning Friday, overlying goals have come into focus for all 30 MLB teams. Some clubs will make major moves at the July 30 Trade Deadline, going all in and dreaming of a World Series title. Others are committed to ...
“baseball war” in the years prior to the merger, as the Midwest-based AL moved its teams into the established NLdomainof the East Coast and wooed away star players from NL squads. The leagues established a truce in 1903 that resulted in the creation of theWorld Series, which matched ...