I am going to tell you about the winningest season in the history of Major League Baseball: that of the 1998 New York Yankees.
That team won 114 games in the regular season, third most overall, and most by a team that went on to win the World Series. Including its postseason victories, the team claimed 125 in total. The Yankees countered, rather than mimicked, the absurd (and sometimes artificial) contemporary power numbers of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Rather, this team lived on small ball. Despite having at least two future Hall of Famers, they did not have any 30-home-run hitters.