2005 Chicago White Sox

The first Chicago baseball team to win a title in nearly a century, the White Sox broke their "Black Sox" curse through Ozzie Guillen's "Win or Die Trying" squad. Adding critical pieces like Scott Podsednik and Tadahito Iguchi to the front of their lineup, fiery catcher AJ Pierzynski to impassion the locker room, and the veteran arms of Freddy Garcia, Jose Contreras, and Dustin Hermanson to shore up the team's pitching. The White Sox would improve by 16 wins from 2004, winning 99 games and the AL Central.

Looking at this Showdown team, it's incredible the job that Ozzie Guillen did. Clearly, he took advantage of the team's excellent charts on offense and rolled solidly with their far above average pitching. Against other "Greatest MLB Showdown" teams, this White Sox squad looks like it'd be toward the bottom, but the risk-reward nature of the lineup could provide some really impressive scores if a manager happens to be rolling well!