MLB Playoffs 2011: Power Ranking the Experience of All 8 Postseason Teams

After yesterday’s jaw-dropping regular season finale, the 2011 MLB Playoffs are finally set with baseball’s top teams ready to compete for baseball’s greatest award, the World Series Championship.

This year, the playoff experience that each team brings is at an all-time high. The Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays, Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers have all made the playoffs at least once in the past decade. In the last 10 years, seven of the eight teams have advanced to the World Series and four of those seven have won it. Four times in the past 10 years have some of these teams faced against each other in the World Series, Diamondbacks vs. Yankees in 2001, Cardinals vs. Tigers in 2006, Rays vs. Phillies in 2008 and Yankees vs. Phillies in 2009.

With all of these teams making the playoffs in the recent past, there is a great deal of familiarity on display in the matchups. The importance of playoff experience cannot be overstated and it will be a key factor in deciding who wins the World Series.

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