2015 Kansas City Royals

The 2014 Royals shocked the baseball universe by sneaking into the AL playoffs, then overcoming a huge deficit against "July's World Series lock," the Oakland A's. KC cruised through a 100 win Angels team before handily defeating Buck's boys in the ALCS. In the end, Mad Bum proved to be too much and the Royals went down in 7 to San Francisco, and essentially everyone assumed the Royals would fade to the middle of the pack in 2015. Instead, they came out blazing, winning the AL Central and also taking the top seed in the AL. Despite their claim to the best record in the AL, they were huge underdogs to the 2015 Blue Jays, who KC dispatched by using their great bullpen to neutralize one of the decade's best lineups.

In the World Series, the Royals took on the fearsome Mets rotation, and didn't pause at all. Winning in five games, Kansas City brought home their first World Series title since 1985, this time without any controversy! Enjoy one of the best surprises in recent memory, the 2015 Royals!