Best Postseason Team Ever

Watching three of this year's four League Division Series end in sweeps got me thinking that three-and-out is a tough way to leave the playoffs. It also got me checking. Turns out only one team in Major League Baseball history meets the following criteria: • Has been to at least three postseasons • Has never won fewer than three games in any postseason it's been in And that team is your own personal favorite autumnal juggernaut, the New York Mets. We don't get swept. We don't exit early. We don't go down without a fight. And we've made it enough to not be considered a Marlinesque fluke. We are No. 1 at this sort of thing as long as this sort of thing is defined narrowly enough to make us feel as good as possible. But it's true. We've won the following number of games in our seven respective postseason appearances: 1969: 7 1973: 6 1986: 8 1988: 3 1999: 5 2000: 8 2006: 6 No other team that made more than token postseason ap...