When the season started, not many would have predicted the New York Yankees would be one win away from reaching the World Series by the 20th of October. This was supposed to be a transitional year where we learned about a young core of players for the foreseeable future–success wasn’t supposed to have come this quickly. Similar things could have been said about the New York Mets just two seasons ago, but the two clubs have more in common than a feel-good story.
Depending on who you asked, most would have bet the current Yankees or ’15 Mets to feature a win total in the low to mid-eighties.