This is a list of division champions (since ) and wild-card winners (since ) in

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Division champions

indicates the winner of the

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Four-division alignment (1969–1993)

*Team names link to the season in which each team played † Due to the

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that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series.

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and New York won the 1981 American League Division Series while

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and

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won the 1981 National League Division Series.

Six-division alignment (1994–present)

*Team names link to the season in which each team played

Wild card winners

indicates the winner of the

One Wild Card (1995–2011)

*Team names link to the season in which each team played

Two Wild Cards (2012–2019, 2021)

*Winner of the Wild Card Game in bold † For the 2020 season, the postseason consisted of eight teams per league; the top two teams in each division and two wild card teams from among the remaining teams.

Three Wild Cards (2022–present)

*Winner of the Wild Card Series in bold

References

{{reflist Major League Baseball postseason