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Region 4
4. 1942 World Champion St Louis Cardinals
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125. 1909 Philadelphia A's
-Mort Cooper's 1.78 ERA paces the Cards as they match up with a 95 win A's squad that didn't make the postseason.
61. 1921 World Champion New York Giants
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68. 1931 New York Yankees
-Casey Stengel's on this Giants club that beat the Yankees in the Series; and with all those World Series titles you'd think there wasn't room in this field for a Yankee team that didn't win the title - but this Ruth/Gehrig group didn't make the postseason.
29. 1954 AL Champion Cleveland Indians
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100. 1922 World Champion New York Giants
-Cleveland won 111 games but then got swept in the Series by the Giants; despite a half dozen Hall of Famers, this Giants squad will be the underdogs again in this one.
36. 2018 AL West Champion Houston Astros
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93. 1921 AL Champion New York Yankees
-103 wins but bounced in the ALCS by Boston, the Astros meet that Yankee group that lost to the Giants team already in this region.
13. 1970 World Champion Baltimore Orioles
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116. 1958 World Champion New York Yankees
-Earl Weaver's squad won 108 games; they meet 26 year old Mickey Mantle and his 188 OPS+
57. 2013 World Champion Boston Red Sox
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72. 1941 NL Champion Brooklyn Dodgers
-How about Clay Buchholz? 12-1 and an ERA of 1.74. Pete Reiser was 22 and had a slashline of .343/.406/.558 for the Dodgers
20. 2018 World Champion Boston Red Sox
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109. 1934 AL Champion Detroit Tigers
-The Astros team this 108 win Boston group knocked off is also in this region; they meet Gehringer and Greenberg and the '34 Tigers.
45. 1947 World Champion New York Yankees
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84. 1989 World Champion Oakland A's
-The 16th Yankee team of the first 64 in the field is this one; they meet the Bash Brothers who won the Earthquake Series.
