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For nearly a generation, major league pitchers found themselves out of luck as they dealt with synthetically enhanced sluggers, shrinking ballparks and chicks who dig the long ball.

The 2010s would be their time for vengeance.

The balance was restored and, as the decade progressed, tipped in favor of the pitchers as baseball’s crackdown on steroids and amphetamines made mortals of once-fearsome sluggers. The new kings of the hill weren’t just limited to the aces, though there was plenty of representation to be found with the baffling Clayton Kershaw, the majestic Felix Hernandez, the electric Max Scherzer, and the consistent Justin Verlander to name just a few. Even when opposing teams managed to break these guys down, they’d still have to scratch and claw their way through a seemingly endless line of relievers dialing up a mix of high-90s heat and slick off-speed deliveries that often made even the best of All-Stars look clueless.

In response, hitters didn’t try to outsmart the new pitching paradigm; instead, they tried to outmuscle it. It was unapologetically boom or bust for most major league batters who, for better or worse, increasingly found their plate appearances resulting in one of the “three outcomes”—a strikeout, walk or home run. As sure as the sun setting in the west, the bar for overall strikeout totals would be reset every year during the decade, while home run numbers would follow suit and, by 2019, reach record-shattering proportions.

Later in the decade, the more fashionable trend was to burn it all down and restart from scratch, relying on a cache of top prospects to mature into stardom at manageable cost; this “tanking” approach yielded World Series parades for the Kansas City Royals (2015), Houston Astros (2017) and Chicago Cubs—who in 2016 ended over a century of frustration with a long overdue Fall Classic triumph.

The teams we selected to include are the following:

1. 2010 Texas Rangers

2. 2011 St. Louis Cardinals

3. 2012 Detroit Tigers

4. 2013 Boston Red Sox

5. 2014 San Francisco Giants

6. 2015 Kansas City Royals

7. 2016 Chicago Cubs

8. 2017 Houston Astros

9. 2018 Los Angeles Dodgers

10. 2019 Washington Nationals

We hope you enjoy the fun of bringing these teams and players back to life.

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