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I feel like that's weird to say about baseball players. Not that they don't "deserve" a championship but baseball players have so little impact compared to other sports. If somebody like Peyton Manning has a great season, his team is probably going to the playoffs and will have a shot at the Super Bowl. Same thing with a guy like Crosby or Ovie provided they have an okay team around them. Then the NBA obviously sees this happen the most.

In MLB, you can have a guy like Trout put up insane numbers every year, but sometimes the Angels will be bad and sometimes they'll be good. You don't get that feeling like any given year could be their year like you do with other sports, so to me it's not as big of a letdown when they don't win. Unless you're talking about somebody like Kershaw or Scherzer, but that's more because the Dodgers and Nationals have just been good teams for several years, not because any team they go to is guaranteed playoff-bound.