128 Team All Time Baseball Tournament - Region 7

Region 6 is here.

Region 1 explains what's going on here.

Region 7

7. 1909 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates

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122. 1999 NL Champion Atlanta Braves

-Can I interest you in a 110 win Pirate club?  They face that Braves club with three Hall of Famers in the rotation.  And round 1 is a 3 game series.  

58. 1905 Chicago Cubs

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71. 2009 World Champion New York Yankees

-The Cubs finished third, despite scoring more than 200 runs than they allowed.  At the time of this writing, this is the last Yankee World Champion.

26. 2019 AL Champion Houston Astros

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103. 1948 New York Yankees

-Listen closely for the sound of the trash can banging when the Astros face a team that, like the '05 Cubs, finished third, the '48 Yanks.  

39. 1917 World Champion Chicago White Sox

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90. 1949 Boston Red Sox

-Two years shy of irreparable scandal, the not yet Black Sox take on 30 year old Ted Williams with his 191 OPS+

10. 1907 World Champion Chicago Cubs

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119. 2018 NL Champion Los Angeles Dodgers

-Another Tinker/Evers/Chance Cubs squad; another recent Dodger team that just fell short.

54. 1954 New York Yankees

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75. 1913 World Champion Philadelphia Athletics

-Another Yankee team that didn't make the postseason, despite 103 wins against a 5 Hall of Famer A's squad.

23. 1936 World Champion New York Yankees 

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106. 1995 World Champion Atlanta Braves

-Yankee team #28 in the tournament - they beat the Braves team from this era that went all the way.

42. 1935 World Champion Detroit Tigers

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87. 1983 World Champion Baltimore Orioles

-24 year old Hank Greenberg with his .328/.411/.628 slashline against 22 year old Cal Ripken's World Champion Orioles.  

128 Team All Time Baseball Tournament - Region 6

Region 5 is here

Part 1 explains all of this.

6. 2016 World Champion Chicago Cubs 

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123. 1955 AL Champion New York Yankees

-Curse breaking Cubs against a Yankee team with 23 year old Mickey Mantle with his 180 OPS+ 

59. 1968 World Champion Detroit Tigers

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70. 1998 NL East Champion Atlanta Braves

-Denny McLain's 31-6 with an ERA under 2; he'll be matched up in game 1 with Greg Maddux and his 2.22 ERA.

27. 1919 World Champion Cincinnati Reds

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102. 1945 NL Champion Chicago Cubs

-The Reds team that beat the Black Sox meets a WWII era Cubs squad without a Hall of Famer.

38. 2017 AL Central Champion Cleveland Indians

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91. 1957 AL Champion New York Yankees

-The Tribe won 102 and then got bounced by the Yankees in the ALDS; 25 year old Mickey Mantle had a near criminal 221 OPS+ for New York

11. 1911 World Champion Philadelphia A's

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118. 1917 NL Champion New York Giants

-They could have hardly known that before the end of the century the A's and Giants would be meeting as Northern California teams in a World Series halted by a massive earthquake.

54. 1969 AL Champion Baltimore Orioles

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75. 1949 World Champion New York Yankees

-109 wins but Baltimore dropped the World Series to the Amazin' New York Mets and they take on another Joe DiMaggio Yankee team.

22. 1976 World Champion Cincinnati Reds

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107. 1906 World Champion Chicago White Sox

-We've seen the '75 Reds, here's the sequel; all 5 members of the White Sox rotation have ERAs below 2.40

43. 1928 World Champion New York Yankees

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86. 1974 NL Champion Los Angeles Dodgers

-Yankee team #24 is the follow up to the legendary '27 Bombers; Don Sutton's the only Hall of Famer on this Dodger squad that won multiple pennants.

128 Team All Time Baseball Tournament Region 5

Part 4 is here

Part 1 explains all of this.

Region 5

5. 1998 World Champion New York Yankees

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124. 2004 NL Champion St Louis Cardinals

-The Yankees won 114 in the regular season and tacked on 11 more playoff victories; they meet 24 year old Albert Pujols with his .331/.415/.657 slashline.  

60. 1910 NL Champion Chicago Cubs 

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69. 1930 World Champion Philadelphia Athletics

-Tinker/Evers/Chance and Three Finger Brown lead the Cubs against Grove/Simmons/Foxx and Mickey Cochrane

28. 1961 World Champion New York Yankees

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101. 1949 NL Champion Brooklyn Dodgers

-Mantle and Maris and the '61 Bombers meet 30 year old Jackie Robinson with his .342/.432/.528 slashline.

37. 2002 World Champion Anaheim Angels

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92. 1979 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates

-The We Are Family Pirates against the Rally Monkey Angels.

12. 1942 AL Champion New York Yankees

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117. 1972 Oakland A's

-Another DiMaggio entry into the tournament; the Yankees take on the first of that run of 3 straight Oakland World Champions

53. 1915 World Champion Boston Red Sox

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76. 1946 World Champion St Louis Cardinals

-A 20 year old Babe Ruth has a 2.44 ERA and that's the worst mark for the entire 5 man Red Sox rotation; 25 year old Stan Musial's OPS+ was 183 for the Cards

21. 1932 World Champion New York Yankees

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108. 1909 AL Champion Detroit Tigers

-The 20th Yankee team in the field takes on 22 year old Ty Cobb and his 193 OPS+

44. 1986 World Champion New York Mets

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85. 1942 Brooklyn Dodgers

-You think of this as a star studded Mets team, but Gary Carter is the only Hall of Famer; this Dodger team won 104 games and didn't see the postseason.

128 Team All Time Baseball Tournament - Region 4

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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.  

128 Team All Time Baseball Tournament - Region 3

Part 2 is here

The explanation for all of this is found in Part 1.  

Region 3

3. 1906 NL Champion Chicago Cubs 

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126. 2011 NL East Champion Philadelphia Phillies

-Seeded 3rd despite losing the World Series?  116 wins will do that.  They face a Phillies team that won 101 games and got bounced in the NLDS by St Louis.

62. 1999 World Champion New York Yankees

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67. 2001 Oakland A's

-25 year old Derek Jeter leads the last world champions of the 20th century against a Wild Card Oakland team that Jeter's 2001 Yankees knocked off in the ALDS.  

30. 1904 NL Champion New York Giants 

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99. 1925 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates

-It's the Giants team that chose to skip what would have been the second ever World Series against a Pirates squad with three Hall of Famers.  

35. 1950 World Champion New York Yankees

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94. 2017 World Champion Houston Astros

-Casey Stengel brings 5 Hall of Famers into action against a franchise who knocked off the Yankees in the ALCS, the 2017 Astros.  

14. 1909 Chicago Cubs

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115. 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox

-This Cub team won 104 games but didn't qualify for the postseason; 37 year old Curt Schilling went 21-6 for the Sox.  

51. 1953 NL Champion Brooklyn Dodgers

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78. 1978 World Champion New York Yankees

-It's the first Brooklyn team we've seen so far in the tournament; they lost the series to their rival Yankees and look to gain some measure of revenge against Reggie's '78 Bombers.  

19. 1953 World Champion New York Yankees 

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110. 1998 NL Central Champion Houston Astros

-We just saw that '53 Dodger squad - here's the Yankee team that beat them led by 21 year old Mickey Mantle.  They face Bagwell/Biggio and a 102 win Astros team that lost to San Diego in the NLDS.

46. 1971 AL Champion Baltimore Orioles 

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83. 1940 World Champion Cincinnati Reds

-Brooks and Frank, Earl Weaver's Robinsons will face a Reds squad whose only Hall of Famer is Ernie Lombardi.