Home » Forums » Baseball General

100-win teams struggle to win World Series

Submitted by cubsnet on Thu, 2006-08-17 21:14.

SI.com's John Donovan, in discussing the Detroit Tigers, notes something I find disturbing:

In the 11 years of the wild-card era there have been 17 teams that have won 100 or more games. Only five of them made it to the World Series (the 1995 Indians, '98 Yankees, '99 Braves, 2003 Yankees and '04 Cardinals), and only one -- the '98 Yanks -- won it.

Given this, it would be a grave mistake for baseball to ever consider adding more rounds to the playoffs. The results are simply too random.

Bookmark/Search this post with:
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • Technorati
‹ Ross Gload Contributing in Opportunity With White Sox Hinske Traded to Red Sox ›
»