Looking Back: Grover’s Playoff Shortcomings

With Texas and San Francisco both vying for a World Series title this week, I figured it was time to look back on what happened to the mid to late 90’s Indians teams. Whether the Rangers or the Giants win, it will erase one of the top five longest droughts in Major League Baseball history. Texas has never won a World Series, while the Giants last title was before they moved to the city by the bay. This of course leaves the Indians and the Cubs at the top of the list. It shouldn’t have been this way. The 1994 Cleveland Indians were a young team coming into their own and swash-buckled their way to a 70-47 record, trailing the division leading Chicago White Sox by just one game when the strike ended the season prematurely. The next year, the Tribe was the best team in Baseball from start to finish. They won an insane 100 of their 144 games during the strike-shortened season and boasted the game’s best offense. They would fall short however, losing to the Atlanta Braves in six games of ...