Baseball is unique in that some of the best teams don’t necessarily win the World Series. And while the New York Yankees have 27 World Championships, they could have had more if some of their teams lived up to their ceiling.
On one side, you have the dominant Yankees’ teams that did get the job done. We’re talking about the 1927 Yankees led by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, the 1961 Yankees fueled by the M&M boys and the 1998 Yankees, who finished with a franchise record regular-season record of 114–48.
Then, there’s the other side of the spectrum.