The American League Central doesn’t get much respect. Some of this is due to its history as one of baseball’s “newer” divisions. The AL Central’s only two World Series champions in 30 seasons of play are the 2005 White Sox and 2015 Royals. Neither were part of a lasting dynasty, and aside from them, it’s been a complete shutout.
I suppose the neglect is also partially because it can be easy to overlook the AL Central clubs in favor of the more big-name teams in the AL East and West. There are the Yankees and Red Sox of course, but the Astros have been baseball’s primary antagonist of the
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