The same pace as the 1962 Mets…Will the White Sox, who lost their second “10 in a row” this season, be the “worst team” in MLB history?
The New York Mets in 1962 and the Detroit Tigers in 2003. What they have in common is that they are considered the worst team in Major League history.
After entering the major leagues in 1962, the Mets recorded the worst record with a winning percentage of .250 with 40 wins and 120 losses. The 120 losses the Mets recorded in that year still remain the most in a single major league season
The closest thing to this was the 2003 Detroit Tigers. At that time, Detroit had the worst record with 43 wins and 119 losses, one loss shy of the Mets’ record.
But this year, there’s a team that’s going to challenge these two teams: the Chicago White Sox.
The White Sox suffered a 2-10 rout of the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas on the 25th.
The loss bogged down the White Sox for 10 consecutive years, with a 27-77-loss winning percentage of 0.260. It is the second time this season that the White Sox have won 10 consecutive games, following a 14-game losing streak from May 23 to June 7. Of course, they are the lowest in the Major League. They are close to 10 percent ahead of the Miami Marlins (37-65, 0.363), who have the worst record in the league. Notably, the White Sox have a winning percentage gap of -50, and the last time they finished a season with -50 was in 1970 (56-106). Their 77 losses in their first 104 games were also the first since the 1962 Mets.
The White Sox are currently in a mess of both pitching and hitting. They are the lowest in the majors in scoring, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage, and their team ERA is 4.57, the second-worst behind the Los Angeles Angels (4.65) and Colorado Rockies (5.50).
The only comforting factor is the performance of ace Garrett Crochet and Eric Peddy, who are writing “reverse export myths.” Crochet and Peddy’s combined record stands at 13 wins (10 losses), accounting for nearly 50 percent of their overall wins. The White Sox have 15 wins and 26 losses in 41 games against the two pitchers, but only 12 wins and 51 losses against other starting pitchers.
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