MLB: statistical finish in the league leaders into September

Post Highlights

• A little over 70% of teams that led the league standings on September 1st, have gone on to win the league pennant.

• The last AL team to lead the league standings on September 1st and miss the postseason, were the 1978 Boston Red Sox.

• The 2004 St. Louis Cardinals are the last team from the NL to convert a September 1st lead in the league standings into a pennant.

Baseball fans have a lot cheap mlb jerseys to be excited about when their favorite team leads the league standings heading into September.  Such a position almost certainly means a postseason berth, which could culminate in a league pennant and even a World Series title.