Looking back, it was a pretty historic season in Major League Baseball.
Eleven teams won 90 or more games, which ties the MLB record for a single season. And do you know what those 11 teams all had in common?
None of them won the World Series.
That’s right, the Braves were basically a few wins better than mediocre from the beginning of April to the end of September. And yet, by the season’s final out, Atlanta was the last team celebrating.
“This year,” first baseman Freddie Freeman said later, “was improbable.