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League 1-8 Team Roster:
DH League
1997 Chicago White Sox
1983 New York Yankees
1986 Boston Red Sox
1986 Detroit Tigers
1988 Oakland Athletics
1988 Boston Red Sox
1988 Minnesota Twins
1990 Oakland Athletics
1990 Boston Red Sox
1991 Toronto Blue Jays
1992 Oakland Athletics
1992 Baltimore Orioles
1993 Texas Rangers
1994 Chicago White Sox
1994 Kansas City Royals
1995 Boston Red Sox
1996 Chicago White Sox
1996 New York Yankees
1997 Seattle Mariners
1998 New York Yankees
1999 Boston Red Sox
2000 Cleveland Indians
2002 Anaheim Angels
2002 New York Yankees
2002 Seattle Mariners
2003 New York Yankees
2003 Toronto Blue Jays
2004 New York Yankees
2004 Minnesota Twins
2006 New York Yankees
2006 Minnesota Twins
2006 Chicago White Sox
2009 Anaheim Angels
2010 Boston Red Sox
2010 Oakland Athletics
2011 Boston Red Sox
2012 Tampa Bay Rays
2012 Oakland Athletics
2013 Kansas City Royals
2014 Los Angeles Angels
2015 Tampa Bay Rays
2016 Houston Astros
Original League
1905 New York Giants
1905 Pittsburgh Pirates
1906 Pittsburgh Pirates
1914 Philadelphia Athletics
1914 Boston Braves
1921 Cleveland Indians
1923 New York Yankees
1924 New York Yankees
1925 St. Louis Cardinals
1926 Pittsburgh Pirates
1928 New York Giants
1930 Washington Senators
1934 Chicago Cubs
1938 Cincinnati Reds
1940 Cincinnati Reds
1940 Brooklyn Dodgers
1945 Detroit Tigers
1948 Boston Red Sox
1949 Brooklyn Dodgers
1949 New York Yankees
1950 New York Yankees
1950 Detroit Tigers
1950 New York Giants
1952 Brooklyn Dodgers
1953 Washington Senators
1960 Baltimore Orioles
1962 Cincinnati Reds
1965 Milwaukee Braves
1973 Los Angeles Dodgers
1976 Los Angeles Dodgers
1977 St. Louis Cardinals
1983 Atlanta Braves
1992 Pittsburgh Pirates
1998 San Diego Padres
2000 San Francisco Giants
2000 New York Mets
2001 Chicago Cubs
2004 Houston Astros
2006 New York Mets
2013 Atlanta Braves
2016 Chicago Cubs
2016 San Francisco Giants
Well, the 1998 New York Yankees are finally in play. If people name DH teams to the best of all-time discussion, this is the team. But this is also the 2016 Chicago Cubs appearance, as well as some other fun teams. This is also the last league for the Rays to qualify a team for the next round.
You know, why does everyone assume that the best team of all-time has to be old? Every team that gets brought up is from 20+ years ago. Of the 2526 teams we've seen since 1901, almost 20% of them have been since 2000. Which means that we would assume, on average, that at least 1 in 5 of the top teams to be from the last 16 years. But really, we should expect higher. After all, the understanding of how to maximize performance from team assembly has only improved as time has passed.
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