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Someone will get hot. It could be us.. Far as I could, outside strike season is that 82 wins is the least by a playoff team.
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Game 7 Tigers @ white sox April 7, 2018 2:10 pm EST
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Someone will get hot. It could be us.. Far as I could, outside strike season is that 82 wins is the least by a playoff team.
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I was looking at results of teams that snuck into the playoffs.. the top 2. Ugh.
1. 2006 Cardinals, 83 wins
These guys nearly wound up on a different list after they saw their massive lead — seven games on the morning of Sept. 21 — nearly disappear as they lost seven in a row down the stretch (the lead was a half-game at one point). In fact, the Cardinals were four games under .500 for the second half of the season.
But they held off the Astros to win the NL Central, then beat the Padres in the NLDS and the 97-win Mets in the NLCS before topping the 95-win Tigers in five games in the World Series. Their regular-season .516 winning percentage is the worst by a team that won the World Series. It also was the franchise’s second-worst record since 2000.
2. 1987 Twins, 85 wins
Minnesota won the AL West that season, which had to be upsetting to the Blue Jays, Brewers and Yankees. Those teams won more games than the Twins (96, 91 and 89, respectively) but played in the East and missed the postseason. The Royals were the only other team in the West to top .500, and they were under .500 until winning their final five games.
In October, though, the Twins played their best baseball. They dispatched the 98-win Tigers in five games and the 95-win Cardinals in seven games in the World Series. That was the franchise’s first championship since moving to Minnesota from Washington, and only the second in franchise history. The Walter Johnson-led Senators won in 1924.
1. 2006 Cardinals, 83 wins
These guys nearly wound up on a different list after they saw their massive lead — seven games on the morning of Sept. 21 — nearly disappear as they lost seven in a row down the stretch (the lead was a half-game at one point). In fact, the Cardinals were four games under .500 for the second half of the season.
But they held off the Astros to win the NL Central, then beat the Padres in the NLDS and the 97-win Mets in the NLCS before topping the 95-win Tigers in five games in the World Series. Their regular-season .516 winning percentage is the worst by a team that won the World Series. It also was the franchise’s second-worst record since 2000.
2. 1987 Twins, 85 wins
Minnesota won the AL West that season, which had to be upsetting to the Blue Jays, Brewers and Yankees. Those teams won more games than the Twins (96, 91 and 89, respectively) but played in the East and missed the postseason. The Royals were the only other team in the West to top .500, and they were under .500 until winning their final five games.
In October, though, the Twins played their best baseball. They dispatched the 98-win Tigers in five games and the 95-win Cardinals in seven games in the World Series. That was the franchise’s first championship since moving to Minnesota from Washington, and only the second in franchise history. The Walter Johnson-led Senators won in 1924.
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