Over the past four years, I've become something of a connoisseur of World Series final-out celebrations. Beginning with the last play of the 2016 World Series -- the little grounder hit by Cleveland's Michael Martinez that the Cubs' Kris Bryant turned into a historic clinching out -- I've taken a smartphone video of those climatic moments from the press box.
In those ecstatic moments, there is no hierarchy. Every player in that pile of ballplayers rolling around on the field has accomplished the No. 1 goal of that campaign -- to be the last team left standing.