Daily News | How the Phillies’ latest playoff drought stacks up to others in MLB history
on Monday night. Now, Philly fans can put that dubious streak, one that spanned a decade and became the longest active playoff drought in the baseball after the Mariners ended their 21-year playoff drought last week.
So how does this playoff drought compare to others throughout the history of the game? Take a look at the video below to see how they’ve trended over the last 100 years and you might feel a little better about the past decade. The Phillies franchise existed for 33 years before the Phils made their first postseason in 1915. So we’re not off to a great start, but it can only get better from here, right? Wrong. The Phillies went the next 34 seasons without making it back to the postseason, and when they finally did in 1950, the Whiz Kids were swept by the Yankees.Projecting the Phillies’ playoff roster: Who’s in, who’s out in series vs.
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