#7: 2000 White Sox
Many fans don’t remember this team. Probably because it’s stuck between the lost 1994 squad and the 2005 world champions. Even so the 2000 White Sox were a good team. They won 95 games that year and featured an excellent mix of young and veteran talent. It was led by a star-studded trio of Frank Thomas, Magglio Ordonez and a young Paul Konerko. Also included was All-Star outfielder Ray Durham and 15-game winner Mike Sirotka.
They may not quite have been a World Series champion in waiting, at least not yet. However, they were a much better team than how things ended. That being a three-game sweep in the playoff opener to the Seattle Mariners, a team that didn’t even win their own division. It was a humiliating finish punctuated by losing both games at home by three runs each.
