Top 10 poll: #11 player ever

[Cedrique]

Ah yes 1983, back when I was just a White Sox fan...the Winning Ugly team won the AL West by 20 games, then got beat in the playoffs by AL East winning Baltimore (who won the WS). An early lesson in the sheer randomness of baseball playoff short sample sizes (not that Baltimore was a bad team or anything)

It was Tony LaRussa's first manager gig...led by Harold Baines and the immortal Cy Young winner Lamarr Hoyt

Yeah I remember that, Hoyt was 24-10 or something, when wins mattered to voters. Playoffs are definitely random though. I remember the Mariners won about 115 games one year then didn't even make the World Series.

 

[msgkings322]

Yeah I remember that, Hoyt was 24-10 or something, when wins mattered to voters. Playoffs are definitely random though. I remember the Mariners won about 115 games one year then didn't even make the World Series.

119 and lost their first playoff series. The Braves won their division like 9 times in a row and won one Series