When we look back at past MLB seasons, history has shown all too often that it always isn’t the best team that wins the World Series. Usually, it is the team that peaks at the right time that takes the title. It doesn’t happen often, but there have been seasons when a team with close to a .500 record has reached their peak in October and won it all, while juggernauts with amazing 162-game records have fizzled out in the end or simply run out of gas in the last lap.
Such was the situation last year with superior teams like the Giants and Dodgers beating the living hell out of each other in attempts to win the division, only to be completely spent by the time that the NLCS was to be played.