Major League Baseball division winners
This is a list of division champions (since 1969) and wild-card winners (since 1994) in Major League Baseball.
Division champions
[edit]indicates the winner of the World Series.
Four-division alignment (1969–1993)
[edit]- Team names link to the season in which each team played
† Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series. Oakland and New York won the 1981 American League Division Series while Los Angeles and Montreal won the 1981 National League Division Series.[1]
Six-division alignment (1994–present)
[edit]- Team names link to the season in which each team played
Wild card winners
[edit]indicates the winner of the World Series.
One Wild Card (1995–2011)
[edit]- Team names link to the season in which each team played
Two Wild Cards (2012–2019, 2021)
[edit]- Winner of the Wild Card Game in bold
| Year | AL Host | AL Visitor | NL Host | NL Visitor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Texas | Baltimore | Atlanta | St. Louis |
| 2013 | Cleveland | Tampa Bay | Pittsburgh | Cincinnati |
| 2014 | Kansas City | Oakland | Pittsburgh | San Francisco |
| 2015 | New York | Houston | Pittsburgh | Chicago |
| 2016 | Toronto | Baltimore | New York | San Francisco |
| 2017 | New York | Minnesota | Arizona | Colorado |
| 2018 | New York | Oakland | Chicago | Colorado |
| 2019 | Oakland | Tampa Bay | Washington | Milwaukee |
| 2020† | Format not used | |||
| 2021 | Boston | New York | Los Angeles | St. Louis |
† For the 2020 season, the postseason consisted of eight teams per league; the top two teams in each division and two wild card teams from among the remaining teams.
Three Wild Cards (2022–present)
[edit]- Winner of the Wild Card Series in bold
| Year | AL #1 | AL #2 | AL #3 | NL #1 | NL #2 | NL #3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Toronto | Seattle | Tampa Bay | New York | San Diego | Philadelphia |
| 2023 | Tampa Bay | Texas | Toronto | Philadelphia | Miami | Arizona |
| 2024 | Baltimore | Kansas City | Detroit | San Diego | Atlanta | New York |
See also
[edit]
- AL pennant winners
- NL pennant winners
- World Series champions
- MLB postseason
- MLB postseason teams
- MLB franchise postseason droughts
- MLB rivalries
- Home advantage
References
[edit]- ^ "MLB Division Series History (1981-2023) | Baseball Almanac". www.baseball-almanac.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.