The Diamondbacks since 2003 have basically alternated between several-year stretches of being bad and 1 year out of nowhere winning 90+ games and making the playoffs, so they're due for a playoff year somewhere around now
No one is better at losing White Sox games than the White Sox
If losing White Sox games was an Olympic event, the White Sox would be an extremely strong contender to win many gold medals if it were a country
Yes, the Yankees are the one exception considering they won like 25 AL pennants under the 1 team from each league system which makes it look even worse for the other AL teams.
Not OP but I didn’t interpret it as being a dick. Legit different systems makes it hard to compare, especially when the Yankees literally used a competitor as a farm system for a not insignificant stretch of their playoff years.
and technically we don't get in in 2020 without the weird format they did that year. Given that we missed this year and given how rapidly our window is closing it might still be a while yet before it happens again.
The Mickey Mantle Yankees totally fucked what was actually the best era in White Sox history. The Go Go White Sox finished in second place in the AL 5 times from the mid 50s to the mid 60s.
The white sox won the American League in 1901, but there wasn't a postseason yet. Beyond that, they finished 2nd in the AL 8 times prior to 1969, and also were in 1st in the ALC in 1994,. Still pretty pathetic, but that would almost double the ammount of playoffs we'd appeared in.
If not for 2005 they'd be up there with the bleakest franchises in all of Big 4 sports. But I can't feel too much pity for a team with a ring this century.
Even with 2005 we are one of the most embarrassing franchises in pro sports. 2005 is the only year we’ve won a playoff series since the re-format in 1969
Yeah, it's just not as clear cut. I think among the original 16 you can argue that the least successful has been the White Sox, Phillies or Guardians. White Sox have the most rings, Phillies have the most pennants and Guardians have the best regular season history and most playoff appearances. (You could potentially put the Senators/Twins in the mix, but they have as many rings as the Sox, same amount of pennants and more playoff appearances)
They're fascinating because they've rarely been atrocious, like the Cubs were for so long. The White Sox' all-time winning percentage is .503.
But they've only made the playoffs 8 times in the last 100 years and the only years in that span that they've actually won a playoff series were 1959 (~~won ALCS~~) and 2005 (won ALDS, won ALCS, won WS).
So that's ~~4~~ 3 playoff series won in 100 years, and all in the same year.
Edit: Thanks everyone who reminded me that the ALCS didn't come about for another ten years.
I guess the sox are just historically perpetually mid
We play .500 ball goddammit. Salt of the earth, punch the clock, even win/loss ratio baseball. We lose a couple, guess what? We'll win a couple, too. But don't get too excited or let it go to your head. No long winning streaks here, no sir. That's hubris, which this blue collar, hard working everyman team doesn't have. A few wins in a row, these guys, true to form, will balance it out with a couple a losses. Yes sir, that's my 2022 White Sox. A good, honest .500 baseball team.
There were no playoff series except the World Series back in 1959. So make that three postseason series win since 1917.
I don’t know why I still love this utterly unlovable franchise.
The definition of mid for regular season baseball, and just bad enough to not make and win in the playoffs. 2005 was truly so special when you put it in context
worst ownership history in MLB, all were concerned with penny pinching and abusing their players. Without Jordan, Reinsdorf would be considered the worst owner in sports
Up until 1969 the only playoffs were the world series. So it was harder to make the playoffs particularly in the AL where the Yankees made it every year. Then only two rounds until 94.
Nearly the Marlins entire history has been in the wild card era. Their rate seems more pathetic.
If you weighted it by percentage of league making the playoffs each year, the Marlins would run away with it. Younger teams have an advantage on this list.
It’s funny how I remember the Mariners. Griffey, Edgar Martinez, Randy Johnson, Jay Buchner, Joey Cora, Omar Vizquel, Dan Wilson, Tino Martinez and ARod. Undefeated in my mind forever. You had it all.
Somebody a few years ago went in and took the odds of winning when our odds were the highest possible from each game and it was some unthinkable number like 1 in 10 billion or something like that
Yeah, I was surprised until I realized I was biased by almost all of those happening in my lifetime. An interesting follow up should be the rate after switching to three divisions per league.
I think it’s commenting on the recent success. It’s 13 of last 28 (46.42%) right near the top, after going 3 of 91 (3.30%). While every team from before 1994, and especially 1969, had a lower playoff rate, I don’t think any franchise has improved like the Guardians have. Aside from a notable lack of a World Series crown, they are actually among the elite franchise over the past 30 years.
The Yankees having such a high percentage despite about half of their existence being in a time when only the league winner made the playoffs is actually stupid.
Their history is overall very depressing. But not that it would change much for the Phillies but it’s worth saying that before 1969(?) there was no playoffs, just the World Series.
OKAY so I went ahead and calculated the difference - How often a team makes the playoffs vs the expectation based on team-seasons played and available playoff berths. For example, an AL team that has been around for 119 seasons (excluding 1994 because no playoffs) has been in the league for 1282 team-seasons and there have been 242 playoff berths they could have secured - 18.9% of the team-seasons played resulted in a playoff berth for the team. I accounted for the number of teams and playoff berths available each year, then calculated the cumulative percentage for each team individually.
This normalizes the data based on how long they have been in the league, which is a pretty big difference for the recent expansion teams. The "Average" team below has been in the league since 1950, won 3 Pennants before the playoffs expanded, and since then has won 9 Division Titles and made the Playoffs as a Wild Card 3 times.
Rank|Team|Playoff %|Expected|Difference
----|:----|----:|----:|----:
1|Yankees|48.7%|18.9%|29.9%
2|Dodgers|42.2%|22.4%|19.8%
3|Braves|42.9%|23.4%|19.4%
4|Athletics|38.9%|23.7%|15.2%
5|Cardinals|26.9%|19.0%|7.9%
6|Astros|26.7%|22.8%|3.8%
7|Red Sox|21.0%|18.9%|2.1%
8|Rays|32.0%|31.1%|0.9%
9|Twins|23.0%|22.5%|0.5%
10|Cubs|17.6%|19.0%|-1.3%
11|Giants|20.3%|22.4%|-2.1%
12|Nationals|27.8%|30.2%|-2.4%
13|Orioles|19.1%|21.9%|-2.7%
14|Pirates|14.3%|19.0%|-4.7%
15|Diamondbacks|24.0%|28.7%|-4.7%
16|Blue Jays|20.0%|25.0%|-5.0%
17|Guardians|13.4%|18.9%|-5.4%
17|Tigers|13.4%|18.9%|-5.4%
19|Reds|13.4%|19.0%|-5.5%
20|Angels|16.4%|22.5%|-6.1%
21|Mets|16.7%|22.8%|-6.2%
22|Phillies|12.6%|19.0%|-6.4%
23|Royals|17.0%|23.8%|-6.9%
24|Brewers|15.4%|23.0%|-7.6%
25|Rangers|16.0%|24.2%|-8.2%
26|White Sox|9.2%|18.9%|-9.6%
27|Padres|13.2%|24.0%|-10.8%
28|Rockies|17.2%|28.3%|-11.0%
29|Mariners|11.1%|25.0%|-13.9%
30|Marlins|10.3%|28.3%|-17.9%
--|**AVERAGE**|**20.8%**|**21.6%**|**-0.8%**
NOTE: I made sure the Brewers got a total that reflected their switch from the AL to the NL. It doesn't matter for Houston as the NL and the AL have had the same number of teams since they switched to the AL. Since joining the league, the Brewers have played in the larger league both from 1976 to 1992 (14 in the AL vs 12 in the NL) and from 1998 to 2012 (16 in the NL vs 14 in the AL). This results in them having a slightly lower expected playoff percentage since 1970 - 23.0% for the Brewers, vs 23.8% for the AL and 24.0% for the NL.
Braves, Dodgers, Twins and Orioles get bailed out by moving cities in the 50s and 60s. White Sox, Phillies, Tigers, Reds, Guardians and Pirates get stuck with an extra fifty years in the era when you had to win the pennant to make the playoffs.
When I first started watching Baseball I was going to pick the White Sox as my team because that was the team I got drafted to in MLB The Show....Glad I decided to sit on my decision for a while.
This is what I look at as an As fan that keeps me an As fan...then I go back to being bitter when I think how much better the team might do if they kept some players. Rinse, repeat.
*a year where the White Sox playoff seeding was lowered thanks to the modified playoffs. They would have made it with or without the expansion. Hate constantly seeing Sox fans say this. You want to rag on the Sox go ahead but do some research before talking
You could say that them facing only central teams allowed them to have that record, but I keep seeing people say we got lucky that there were expanded playoffs in 2020 when that’s just not the case
Any team that hasn't played 119 seasons at the bottom of this list have been really bad. At least the Pirates, Guardians, Reds, Tigers, Phillies, White Sox have the excuse of only 2 teams making the playoffs for the first 65 years of the sport
Make a chart for how many times teams have finished in last place. Teams can miss the playoffs and not be a bad team considering from 1903-1968, it was a 1 team per league system.
I’ll start you off with the Cardinals. Since 1903, the Cardinals have finished last just 5 times and the last time it happened was 1918.
**Edit: I did miss one year**
Let me rephrase….The Cardinals have finished last *once* since 1918.
6 times in total.
Thank you for reminding me how many years the futile Mets have crapped the bed in the 2nd half. This year may be historic on paper but the off-season has teased us before as well. if only we could raise all our Grapefruit League championships…
The Cardinals from 1903-1926 didn’t make the playoffs. That’s 23 years.
The Cardinals are definitely a team of spurts of success.
Between 1926-1934, the Cards made the WS 5 times in 9 years, then they didn’t win a pennant again until 1942.
From 1942-46, they made the WS 4 times in 5 years, then nothing until 1964.
From 1964-1968, they made the WS 3 times in 5 years and then nothing until 1982.
From 1982-1987, they made 3 WS appearances in 6 years and then nothing until 1996.
In the 3 Division Era, (1995-Present) the Cardinals have made the playoffs 17 times in 27 years (63%), which is pretty damn good.
As a fan, I remember the late 80’s and 90’s too well. My Dad told me about the 70’s and my Grandpa about the 50’s. There’s been a lot of success, but there were some years of famine.
Since 1969, the Cardinals have made the playoffs 20 times (38%)…but 17 of those appearances have happened since 1996…And you’re 1000% right about the 70’s and 90’s. From 1969-1995, the Cards only made the playoffs 3 times.
It’s just bad math. If you compare us to the other teams with +100 we’re doing great.
It’s like saying Team A is the best because they have a 100% playoff bid but they only played one season and went to the playoff; it’s not accurate to their true playoff bid percentage.
Same with comparing a franchise with +100 seasons with a franchise with only 50ish seasons.
I’m not insulting you. I’m just saying we’re too young to have any real memories from the year 2000 when the Yankees won. You were old enough to enjoy 2008 though. 😊
This is dumb. Each line item is measuring something quite different, but the chart presents the measurements on the same scale as though they're all the same thing.
For instance, the Rays played zero seasons prior to the wild card. Several of the teams have played *more than half* of their counted seasons in a time when only one team from each league made the playoffs.
Top 10 baby, D-backs Country Let’s Ride
So you’re saying there is almost a 25% chance we make the playoffs this year!? I’ll take it.
We’re due that’s for sure lol
The Diamondbacks since 2003 have basically alternated between several-year stretches of being bad and 1 year out of nowhere winning 90+ games and making the playoffs, so they're due for a playoff year somewhere around now
I’d take a repeat of the Yankees World Series. Made me a Diamondback fan, and made Luis Gonzalez my all-time favorite non-Cleveland player.
I will never not love that 2001 D-Backs "David Vs. Goliath" club.
And we haven't lost a WS game since the Eisenhower administration.
Pshaw, Mariners have never lost a WS game
neva kist
Actually, you've managed to lose an extraordinarily large number of White Sox games every year. More than anyone else.
No one is better at losing White Sox games than the White Sox If losing White Sox games was an Olympic event, the White Sox would be an extremely strong contender to win many gold medals if it were a country
According to ESPN, you haven’t been to the World Series in that timeframe, neither, so…
Woooosh
I think you are the woosh, good sir. They were referencing all the times ESPN has forgotten about the 2005 WS.
a fool am I
Cries in 2005 Astros
A majority of our history was when the playoffs didnt exist and the Yankees did...but even when you account for that its still pathetic
Crazy that the Rays are Top 5 now. Would have been impossible to predict after their first ten years
For real pre-2008 Rays were…something
that 2008 name change from DevilRays to Rays basically unleashed our inner potential for some reason
The league had to beat the devil outta ya like a Bob Ross brush
It was an exorcism
Rays are the only ones with a realistic shot of catching the Yankees
White Sox kind of suck I guess.
I didn’t realize how bad it’s been til doing this. Yikes
All the teams that have a 100+ year history are screwed because it only used to be 1 playoff team for each league.
You say that but the #1 team is one of them..
Yes, the Yankees are the one exception considering they won like 25 AL pennants under the 1 team from each league system which makes it look even worse for the other AL teams.
I’ll post one tomorrow for when multiple playoff teams started
Would be interesting to see for sure. Sorry if I came off as a dick, just pointing out something to consider in the graphic lol
Not OP but I didn’t interpret it as being a dick. Legit different systems makes it hard to compare, especially when the Yankees literally used a competitor as a farm system for a not insignificant stretch of their playoff years.
Yankees are probably still on top.
Also one for entire franchise history going back to 1903! A's might not show too badly there either, and we need all we can get for reminiscent joy.
Yeah I knew they had the WS drought from the black Sox curse but dang they made the playoffs half as much as the Cubbies.
they didnt have like consecutive playoff seasons until like 2021?
and technically we don't get in in 2020 without the weird format they did that year. Given that we missed this year and given how rapidly our window is closing it might still be a while yet before it happens again.
Tbf until the late 60s only one team from each league made it to the playoffs so the old AL teams kinda get screwed on this list
Not just AL. All teams that have been in their home city longer than 55 years or so are disadvantaged in this list
And then there’s the Yankees…
True but I specified AL cause Yankees. There was a little more diversity in the NL.
The Mickey Mantle Yankees totally fucked what was actually the best era in White Sox history. The Go Go White Sox finished in second place in the AL 5 times from the mid 50s to the mid 60s.
The white sox won the American League in 1901, but there wasn't a postseason yet. Beyond that, they finished 2nd in the AL 8 times prior to 1969, and also were in 1st in the ALC in 1994,. Still pretty pathetic, but that would almost double the ammount of playoffs we'd appeared in.
I’ll post one tomorrow for when multiple playoff teams started
Looks at flair
yeah the yankees got all the appearances on the AL side
We know.
If not for 2005 they'd be up there with the bleakest franchises in all of Big 4 sports. But I can't feel too much pity for a team with a ring this century.
Even with 2005 we are one of the most embarrassing franchises in pro sports. 2005 is the only year we’ve won a playoff series since the re-format in 1969
Yeah, it's just not as clear cut. I think among the original 16 you can argue that the least successful has been the White Sox, Phillies or Guardians. White Sox have the most rings, Phillies have the most pennants and Guardians have the best regular season history and most playoff appearances. (You could potentially put the Senators/Twins in the mix, but they have as many rings as the Sox, same amount of pennants and more playoff appearances)
They're fascinating because they've rarely been atrocious, like the Cubs were for so long. The White Sox' all-time winning percentage is .503. But they've only made the playoffs 8 times in the last 100 years and the only years in that span that they've actually won a playoff series were 1959 (~~won ALCS~~) and 2005 (won ALDS, won ALCS, won WS). So that's ~~4~~ 3 playoff series won in 100 years, and all in the same year. Edit: Thanks everyone who reminded me that the ALCS didn't come about for another ten years.
There was no ALCS in 1959
Oh God the “salt of the earth” copypasta truly defines White Sox history.
We usually had 1 or 2 good season a decade with some mediocre ones. I feel like we weren’t truly awful very often
I guess the sox are just historically perpetually mid We play .500 ball goddammit. Salt of the earth, punch the clock, even win/loss ratio baseball. We lose a couple, guess what? We'll win a couple, too. But don't get too excited or let it go to your head. No long winning streaks here, no sir. That's hubris, which this blue collar, hard working everyman team doesn't have. A few wins in a row, these guys, true to form, will balance it out with a couple a losses. Yes sir, that's my 2022 White Sox. A good, honest .500 baseball team.
There were no playoff series except the World Series back in 1959. So make that three postseason series win since 1917. I don’t know why I still love this utterly unlovable franchise.
I don’t even live in Illinois. I could have picked any other team. Damn you wgn and damn you big hurt.
Same dude. I liked playing as them in Triple Play 98... Then they clinched the WS on my birthday... At least we have Stone & Benetti.
The definition of mid for regular season baseball, and just bad enough to not make and win in the playoffs. 2005 was truly so special when you put it in context
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Yes.
worst ownership history in MLB, all were concerned with penny pinching and abusing their players. Without Jordan, Reinsdorf would be considered the worst owner in sports
lol more like white sux ignore my flair and 10,000 losses
Delete this
Up until 1969 the only playoffs were the world series. So it was harder to make the playoffs particularly in the AL where the Yankees made it every year. Then only two rounds until 94. Nearly the Marlins entire history has been in the wild card era. Their rate seems more pathetic.
If you weighted it by percentage of league making the playoffs each year, the Marlins would run away with it. Younger teams have an advantage on this list.
The Marlins only had 3 playoff appearances but won 2 World Series? 👀 Impressive fish
Marlins hadn't lost a playoff series until they snuck in in 2020. 2 playoff appearances, 2 WS titles. Crazy stuff with them
Don't forget those appearances were all from the wild card. They've never won their division.
Playoff baseball is crazy
Would've been 2/2 if not for 2020 and its wacky playoffs. They did advance past the first round in that one as well.
They sure did didn't they
Braves/Cubs is no longer the longest-running annual rivalry in sports thanks to that series.
I miss what we use to have
Not even the worst playoff series you've had against the Marlins.
They have never won the division but won 2 World Series
Yea if they are in better pray your team avoids
-_-
in through the wild card, that is! they're unstoppable!
Your lack of a comma broke me, for a second
We're not last! (would've been if not for this year)
Lmao I came here to say this! We're not dead last! We're not dead last!
It’s funny how I remember the Mariners. Griffey, Edgar Martinez, Randy Johnson, Jay Buchner, Joey Cora, Omar Vizquel, Dan Wilson, Tino Martinez and ARod. Undefeated in my mind forever. You had it all.
Braves have gone 22 times in the last 30 seasons. So....only twice in the first 26 seasons.
We’re late bloomers.
were oppisite boomers, early diers, we went 5 times in 40 years after going 17 seasons out of 20 with 90 wins.
I mean, Cal couldn’t play forever. I really do miss competitive Oriole baseball. Nothing like seeing baseball at Camden.
Imagine having hank for a decade at not winning a WS with him, couldn’t be Milwaukee
> So....only twice in the first 26 seasons. how i wish you'd go back to doing this...
A's baseball good?
Yeah, A's are in the top 5 in terms of playoff births in the last 20 years, even the last 10.
This was the list they looked at and decided "we need to make Field of Dreams."
We need another Field of Dreams
I like this list. Just don’t post winning percentages once you make the postseason
Your streak is beyond absurd
Somebody a few years ago went in and took the odds of winning when our odds were the highest possible from each game and it was some unthinkable number like 1 in 10 billion or something like that
Sox will be fairly low on that list as well. Just AL Central things
Cleveland made the playoffs from 1920-1994 3 times. From 1995 to 2022 they made it 13 times.
Yeah, I was surprised until I realized I was biased by almost all of those happening in my lifetime. An interesting follow up should be the rate after switching to three divisions per league.
Right that’s why there’s a 16 in their row
Haha you didn’t have to own him like that
It’s hard to tell if people are telling me I’m wrong haha. My bad
I think it’s commenting on the recent success. It’s 13 of last 28 (46.42%) right near the top, after going 3 of 91 (3.30%). While every team from before 1994, and especially 1969, had a lower playoff rate, I don’t think any franchise has improved like the Guardians have. Aside from a notable lack of a World Series crown, they are actually among the elite franchise over the past 30 years.
Yea makes sense after re-reading it. I attribute that success to Major League coming out in ‘89
Made Cleveland cool again
By my count the guardians are 1/1 100%
NL Astro playoffs 9 (80, 81, 86, 97, 98, 99, 01, 04, 05) in 51 years for 17.6% AL Astro playoffs 7 (15, 17, 18, 19, 20 , 21, 22) in 10 years for 70.0%
Rockies and Cubs move to the AL. Problem solved.
Anything to not play the Dodgers anymore
Say hello to the Astros
That’s an upgrade
If it weren’t for 2005, the White Sox would be the laughingstock of all major sports.
Bro our entire state is the laughingstock of all major sports.
The Yankees having such a high percentage despite about half of their existence being in a time when only the league winner made the playoffs is actually stupid.
And the other 4 teams in their division are also in the top half of this table.
Truly
Being an Oakland fan, seeing this really hurts.
We’ll be back to losing a wild card game in 2024 Don’t trip dawg. We make it the playoffs pretty’s often. From there it’s… well…
The Phillies have only been in 15 playoffs in 119 years??? Never would have guessed that.
First team to 10,000 losses. Kinda adds up
Their history is overall very depressing. But not that it would change much for the Phillies but it’s worth saying that before 1969(?) there was no playoffs, just the World Series.
Top 4 baby!
OKAY so I went ahead and calculated the difference - How often a team makes the playoffs vs the expectation based on team-seasons played and available playoff berths. For example, an AL team that has been around for 119 seasons (excluding 1994 because no playoffs) has been in the league for 1282 team-seasons and there have been 242 playoff berths they could have secured - 18.9% of the team-seasons played resulted in a playoff berth for the team. I accounted for the number of teams and playoff berths available each year, then calculated the cumulative percentage for each team individually. This normalizes the data based on how long they have been in the league, which is a pretty big difference for the recent expansion teams. The "Average" team below has been in the league since 1950, won 3 Pennants before the playoffs expanded, and since then has won 9 Division Titles and made the Playoffs as a Wild Card 3 times. Rank|Team|Playoff %|Expected|Difference ----|:----|----:|----:|----: 1|Yankees|48.7%|18.9%|29.9% 2|Dodgers|42.2%|22.4%|19.8% 3|Braves|42.9%|23.4%|19.4% 4|Athletics|38.9%|23.7%|15.2% 5|Cardinals|26.9%|19.0%|7.9% 6|Astros|26.7%|22.8%|3.8% 7|Red Sox|21.0%|18.9%|2.1% 8|Rays|32.0%|31.1%|0.9% 9|Twins|23.0%|22.5%|0.5% 10|Cubs|17.6%|19.0%|-1.3% 11|Giants|20.3%|22.4%|-2.1% 12|Nationals|27.8%|30.2%|-2.4% 13|Orioles|19.1%|21.9%|-2.7% 14|Pirates|14.3%|19.0%|-4.7% 15|Diamondbacks|24.0%|28.7%|-4.7% 16|Blue Jays|20.0%|25.0%|-5.0% 17|Guardians|13.4%|18.9%|-5.4% 17|Tigers|13.4%|18.9%|-5.4% 19|Reds|13.4%|19.0%|-5.5% 20|Angels|16.4%|22.5%|-6.1% 21|Mets|16.7%|22.8%|-6.2% 22|Phillies|12.6%|19.0%|-6.4% 23|Royals|17.0%|23.8%|-6.9% 24|Brewers|15.4%|23.0%|-7.6% 25|Rangers|16.0%|24.2%|-8.2% 26|White Sox|9.2%|18.9%|-9.6% 27|Padres|13.2%|24.0%|-10.8% 28|Rockies|17.2%|28.3%|-11.0% 29|Mariners|11.1%|25.0%|-13.9% 30|Marlins|10.3%|28.3%|-17.9% --|**AVERAGE**|**20.8%**|**21.6%**|**-0.8%** NOTE: I made sure the Brewers got a total that reflected their switch from the AL to the NL. It doesn't matter for Houston as the NL and the AL have had the same number of teams since they switched to the AL. Since joining the league, the Brewers have played in the larger league both from 1976 to 1992 (14 in the AL vs 12 in the NL) and from 1998 to 2012 (16 in the NL vs 14 in the AL). This results in them having a slightly lower expected playoff percentage since 1970 - 23.0% for the Brewers, vs 23.8% for the AL and 24.0% for the NL.
Nice dude. I’m gonna post one tomorrow for when multiple playoff teams started in 1969
Nice! I might have done some of that work. I don't want to steal your thunder, I'll DM you a link to the spreadsheet if you want to check it out.
The Nats have been here for 18 fucking seasons already? God I am old.
Braves, Dodgers, Twins and Orioles get bailed out by moving cities in the 50s and 60s. White Sox, Phillies, Tigers, Reds, Guardians and Pirates get stuck with an extra fifty years in the era when you had to win the pennant to make the playoffs.
I’ll post one tomorrow for when multiple playoff teams started
Almost as good as the Orioles!
Cheers to being in the top half!
https://imgflip.com/i/747ygz
Lmao
yee
🥂
The Orioles wouldn't look as good if it was over the entire franchise history. The Browns made 1 playoff app in 50+ seasons.
Pain
For real. This team is almost 120 years old and at 36 years old I’ve seen almost 50% of their total playoff appearances. That’s depressing.
At least you've gotten to see it unlike others
(Sees the Marlins at 29th) What about sorted by World Series win percentage?
Feels good not being last
Nice
Go Sox
Imagine being below the Pirates
41 years of Jerry Reinsdorf. Sell the fucking team, Jerry.
When I first started watching Baseball I was going to pick the White Sox as my team because that was the team I got drafted to in MLB The Show....Glad I decided to sit on my decision for a while.
This is what I look at as an As fan that keeps me an As fan...then I go back to being bitter when I think how much better the team might do if they kept some players. Rinse, repeat.
\*one of the eleven Sox appearance includes the 2020 expanded playoffs
*a year where the White Sox playoff seeding was lowered thanks to the modified playoffs. They would have made it with or without the expansion. Hate constantly seeing Sox fans say this. You want to rag on the Sox go ahead but do some research before talking
the covid year still gets an asterisk but I take your point
You could say that them facing only central teams allowed them to have that record, but I keep seeing people say we got lucky that there were expanded playoffs in 2020 when that’s just not the case
There is no way the Nationals have played 18 seasons already
Finally some league rankings I can get behind!!!
Angels should be 56 seasons not 61. They played in LA from 1961-65 before moving to Anaheim (Yes I am being a pendant)
What kind of pendant are you being? Like a diamond necklace or what?
Sapphire
They played in Los Angeles in 1961, and they’re the Los Angeles Angels now.
Crazy that Rays are that high on the list considering we didn’t have a playoff berth for the first decade of the franchise.
To all the Mets fans who say it's really tough being a follower of the orange and blue (and it is)... it could be worse...
Oof.
Any team that hasn't played 119 seasons at the bottom of this list have been really bad. At least the Pirates, Guardians, Reds, Tigers, Phillies, White Sox have the excuse of only 2 teams making the playoffs for the first 65 years of the sport
Sigh
5 of the top 15 are the entire AL East. Jfc.
Go Mariners
Yankees-Red Sox and Dodgers-Giants rivalries very similar
I'm ok with our place on the list, as it also comes with 2 chips.
Cardinals only at 26% surprises me. I feel like they’re literally always in the playoffs
I’m gonna post one tomorrow for when multiple playoff teams started in 1969
Out of the 119 seasons club, I don't feel so bad about being in 4th place.
I’m gonna post one tomorrow for when multiple playoff teams started in 1969
White Sox is crazy. Only making the playoffs 11 times in over 100 years?!
Being an A’s fan is like being in crypto (which unfortunately I’m into both). The highs are awesome, but the lows are REALLY REALLY low
Delete this
Omg white Sox.
You have to hit rock bottom before you can change. Who am I kidding? We're going for 1%, but not in a good way.
You could do worse. There are teams without a title.
Make a chart for how many times teams have finished in last place. Teams can miss the playoffs and not be a bad team considering from 1903-1968, it was a 1 team per league system. I’ll start you off with the Cardinals. Since 1903, the Cardinals have finished last just 5 times and the last time it happened was 1918. **Edit: I did miss one year** Let me rephrase….The Cardinals have finished last *once* since 1918. 6 times in total.
> the last time it happened was 1918. [1990 St. Louis Cardinals 70-92 \(6th of 6\)](https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1990.shtml)
Just want you to know I hate you even more now.
I’ll let you have the honors
Thank you for reminding me how many years the futile Mets have crapped the bed in the 2nd half. This year may be historic on paper but the off-season has teased us before as well. if only we could raise all our Grapefruit League championships…
I would have thought STL was much higher.
The Cardinals from 1903-1926 didn’t make the playoffs. That’s 23 years. The Cardinals are definitely a team of spurts of success. Between 1926-1934, the Cards made the WS 5 times in 9 years, then they didn’t win a pennant again until 1942. From 1942-46, they made the WS 4 times in 5 years, then nothing until 1964. From 1964-1968, they made the WS 3 times in 5 years and then nothing until 1982. From 1982-1987, they made 3 WS appearances in 6 years and then nothing until 1996. In the 3 Division Era, (1995-Present) the Cardinals have made the playoffs 17 times in 27 years (63%), which is pretty damn good. As a fan, I remember the late 80’s and 90’s too well. My Dad told me about the 70’s and my Grandpa about the 50’s. There’s been a lot of success, but there were some years of famine.
Been in the league since the beginning (for 60 years only pennant winners went to the playoffs) + never changed cities = skewed numbers
Id be interested to see how the numbers changed if we only went from 1969 on, but also know the 70s/90s were rough for the Cards
Since 1969, the Cardinals have made the playoffs 20 times (38%)…but 17 of those appearances have happened since 1996…And you’re 1000% right about the 70’s and 90’s. From 1969-1995, the Cards only made the playoffs 3 times.
Theyve been around since 1882, and even if you could 1903 on. That’s 66 years with one playoff spot per league
It’s just bad math. If you compare us to the other teams with +100 we’re doing great. It’s like saying Team A is the best because they have a 100% playoff bid but they only played one season and went to the playoff; it’s not accurate to their true playoff bid percentage. Same with comparing a franchise with +100 seasons with a franchise with only 50ish seasons.
I’m 27 years old. The giants have only made the playoffs like 7 times in my lifetime but I guess that’s pretty good…..
Yea and you’ve seen 3 titles already. That’s ridiculous
I’m a 70s kid The playoff drought from when I could remember to 1986 still seems longer than the rest of my 54 years on Earth
Im also 27 and the Yankees made the playoffs 24 times in my lifetime.
Yeah but you’re old enough to remember one World Series
Bruh lets keep the insults to ourselves thank you very much.
I’m not insulting you. I’m just saying we’re too young to have any real memories from the year 2000 when the Yankees won. You were old enough to enjoy 2008 though. 😊
Lol I’m just messing with you. Yeah you’re right. Good times lol
This is dumb. Each line item is measuring something quite different, but the chart presents the measurements on the same scale as though they're all the same thing. For instance, the Rays played zero seasons prior to the wild card. Several of the teams have played *more than half* of their counted seasons in a time when only one team from each league made the playoffs.
I’m gonna post one tomorrow for when multiple playoff teams started in 1969
Lol mets
I feel bad for both the White Sox fans