Best MLB Team of All Time

27 Yankees would have won this poll if we actually saw them in real time. It’s rare you will ever pick player and/or teams from a time period you didn’t see. Which is why 98 Yankees is the common pick usually from fans who saw them play. 27 Yankees were flat out nasty. Babe didn’t even win mvp yet he smacked 60 home runs which was more than any team in the AL. How many decades did it take for Maris to beat that? They had 6 pitchers with double digit wins and 4 with at least 18 wins. Lou smacked 173 rbis. Like come on man. What are we really talking about here?

If I eliminate the eye test, real time factor. 27 Yankees are the greatest team of all time. The way some of you act about Ohtani today I can only imagine if you were around for this team. Give me a damn break.


Also 86 Mets > 76 Reds on the all time list.

[QUOTE=GOBB;15041529]27 Yankees would have won this poll if we actually saw them in real time. It’s rare you will ever pick player and/or teams from a time period you didn’t see. Which is why 98 Yankees is the common pick usually from fans who saw them play. 27 Yankees were flat out nasty. Babe didn’t even win mvp yet he smacked 60 home runs which was more than any team in the AL. How many decades did it take for Maris to beat that? They had 6 pitchers with double digit wins and 4 with at least 18 wins. Lou smacked 173 rbis. Like come on man. What are we really talking about here?

If I eliminate the eye test, real time factor. 27 Yankees are the greatest team of all time. The way some of you act about Ohtani today I can only imagine if you were around for this team. Give me a damn break.


Also 86 Mets > 76 Reds on the all time list.[/QUOTE]

I agree with your '27 Yankees post. Almost 100 years later and people still bring up that team.

I believe the '76 Reds are the weakest team in the poll, not quite as dominant as the other teams because of their pitching. Mets had top tier pitching, their hitting wasn't anything crazy though, above average to good. Went with Reds because they had a more dominant postseason and their defense was better.

[QUOTE=ShawkFactory;15041515]No necessarily though. One game where you have 2 guys on base and a line drive to the short stop that 90% of the time scores a run or maybe 2 means that you lose one of the games. Then in another a dude pitches out of his mind but you also have a couple of opportunities where the ball doesn't bounces your way. That's 2 of the 4 you've given up due to luck.

I mean look at the Jays. 18 things went wrong for them really with no fault of their own. Even though it's a 7 game series, each game is far more ticky-tack than a football game.[/QUOTE]
Of course you can still outplay another team over the course of a 7 game series and still lose. I mentioned the '01 World Series before, that was legitimately a very one sided series where the Yankees needed 2 of the biggest miracle wins ever and got outscored by a whopping 37-14, yet they were THIS close to pulling it off. That would have honestly been the biggest 7 game robbery I've ever seen had Rivera closed it out.

Just to me personally, you lose one game on a once in a lifetime play like Tyree, it's far less conclusive to me than getting bested over a 7 game series like the '16 Warriors, '01 Mariners, the Bruins a couple years back. In reference to the Mariners, they just didn't look good the entire postseason, even before the Yankees waxed them.