No player in MLB history has ever led both the NL and AL in RBIs:
Pete Alonso led the NL in 2022 with 131 RBI
He's on pace to lead the AL in 2026 with just 6 games to go 👀
I put them at the edge of the five and I will defend it.
108 wins, then a six game NLCS against Houston that included a sixteen inning Game 6 nobody talks about enough, then the Red Sox series.
Gooden was 21 and already a year past his best season, which is a strange sentence to write about a pitcher that young. Ojeda went 18 and 5.
Carter and Hernandez ran the clubhouse and the defense, and a team with that much talent needed somebody doing exactly that. Look at the pieces one at a time and the win total stops being surprising.
The argument against them is that they won one title with that core and never got back, and it is a fair thing to raise.
Talent is not the same as results, and a single ring is a single ring no matter how loaded the roster looked in March.
But if you are ranking teams by how good they actually were across one season, rather than by what a dynasty accumulated over a decade, that roster belongs in the conversation. A ranking of seasons should measure seasons.
Everything else is a different card, and I would build that one differently.