For six weeks, the greatest Yankees teams in franchise history have battled it out amongst each other in our All-Time Yankees Fantasy Showdown, but two teams in particular seemed destined to face off for the ultimate crown.
The 1927 “Murderers’ Row” Yankees were, for decades, and perhaps still are, the gold standard for team excellence. They went 110-44 in the regular season, then danced past the Pittsburgh Pirates for a 4-0 World Series sweep. In the history of baseball, there have been only 59 players to accumulate 10.0 bWAR or more in a season, and only once has a single team featured two such players: the 1927 Yankees with Babe Ruth (12.