Three MLB teams that have never won a World Series are still alive: Who is most likely to break through?

One of the many interesting nuggets regarding the divisional round of the 2026 Major League Baseball playoffs is that nearly 40% of the remaining field is comprised of teams shooting for their first-ever World Series title.

Many die-hard baseball fans are familiar with the trivia question that asks which five have never won it all. There's only one team that hasn't played in the World Series, the Seattle Mariners, and it got one win away last year. The Colorado Rockies have won a pennant but never won the World Series.

The other three who haven't won it all are the Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Rays. They're all still in 2026, but who is most likely to win it all? Let's rank them.

The Padres were a downtrodden franchise until finally breaking through in 1984 by winning the NL West and coming back from an 0-2 deficit in a best-of-five NLCS against the Cubs to win the pennant. They lost, four games to one, to the Tigers in the World Series, but it was a great run. They wouldn't again make the postseason until 1996, but they were swept in the NLDS. In 1998, they made it…

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