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The 1899 Cleveland Spiders.
The 1962 New York Mets.
The 2003 Detroit Tigers.
The 2024 Chicago White Sox.
The only teams to lose 100 games before September.
In their expansion year, the ’62 Mets became the losingest team in modern baseball history. The ’24 White Sox are ahead of their losing pace, and will undoubtedly displace them as the absolute worst to have ever played the modern game.
A baseball season shouldn’t be this lopsided. It takes expansion, or else a special kind of mismanagement, to do this poorly. The incompetent product the White Sox put on the field this year has provided me with morbid comedy since April, when late-inning leads would dissolve via a bullpen that could not achieve consistent success in the minor leagues. A comedy of errors. A team wrapped in folly. An entire roster of players who should be liquidated, or else developing in the minors. If they go 10-21 to finish out the season (.476, a level of playthey haven't achieved all year), they're still the worst team the game has ever known.
But what about that World Series? The 2005 White Sox were an aberration, a blip, as an assortment of cheap players all peaked at the same time, managing career-highs never to be achieved again. It wasn't a planned title year, nor was it well-earned by the front office. It was lightning in a bottle.
This White Sox team is Jerry Reinsdorf’s legacy, as his penny-pinching nepotism has arguably made him the worst owner in baseball. Truly, you couldn’t sabotage a team this bad if you tried.
Sell the team, Jerry. This is the only history anyone will ever remember. Your legacy is complete.
The 1962 New York Mets.
The 2003 Detroit Tigers.
The 2024 Chicago White Sox.
The only teams to lose 100 games before September.
In their expansion year, the ’62 Mets became the losingest team in modern baseball history. The ’24 White Sox are ahead of their losing pace, and will undoubtedly displace them as the absolute worst to have ever played the modern game.
A baseball season shouldn’t be this lopsided. It takes expansion, or else a special kind of mismanagement, to do this poorly. The incompetent product the White Sox put on the field this year has provided me with morbid comedy since April, when late-inning leads would dissolve via a bullpen that could not achieve consistent success in the minor leagues. A comedy of errors. A team wrapped in folly. An entire roster of players who should be liquidated, or else developing in the minors. If they go 10-21 to finish out the season (.476, a level of playthey haven't achieved all year), they're still the worst team the game has ever known.
But what about that World Series? The 2005 White Sox were an aberration, a blip, as an assortment of cheap players all peaked at the same time, managing career-highs never to be achieved again. It wasn't a planned title year, nor was it well-earned by the front office. It was lightning in a bottle.
This White Sox team is Jerry Reinsdorf’s legacy, as his penny-pinching nepotism has arguably made him the worst owner in baseball. Truly, you couldn’t sabotage a team this bad if you tried.
Sell the team, Jerry. This is the only history anyone will ever remember. Your legacy is complete.