Yep, lowest win total for a World Series winner. Even more amazingly, they came within 1 game of a forced tiebreaker, the loss of which would have completed the greatest September collapse in baseball history. What a dramatic comeback from the brink of disaster! A great story.
Cheer up, Tiger fans. Michigan will play for the national championship in a couple of months.
Three other playoff teams couldn't beat them when it mattered. Three other AL teams couldn't beat the Tigers when it really mattered.
Twenty-two other teams couldn't make the playoffs.
But looking at the big picture, the Cards have the HIGHEST win total--311--of any team in baseball over the past three years, seasons and post-seasons combined. That, plus two pennants and one world championship! The best team, overall, of the mid-'00s, maybe of the whole decade so far.