So I have been thinking about the Cubs a lot recently and the game yesterday against the Braves made me think about something. It was a throwback game celebrating sixty years of baseball on WGN and they showed the records from 1948 and both the cubs and white sox were in last place on June 12th of that year and the two teams leading the division, one from each league on this day in '48 went on to win the World Series. So I wondered, how many teams in recent history with the best record in the NL went on to go to and better yet win the World Series.
My research fround that in the last twenty complete seasons (minus the strike year of '94 when no World Series was played) only seven teams from the NL that had the best record at the end of the year went on to the World Series. And more surprising than that, only one team, the '95 Braves went on to win the World Series. That's not very good odds for the Cubs who currently have the best record. Maybe times are changing though as the AL is no longer the offensive powerhouse it once was. I sure hope so. It would be a shame to see the Cubs win 100 games and then flop in the playoffs, much like many teams of the recent past. I don't mean to be negative but it's just one statistic I thought may be interesting to Chicago fans.
Keywords: 95, Atlanta Braves, Best Record, Chicago Cubs, Wins, World Series
