The 2024 Major League Baseball season just ended and the Chicago White Sox had a historically awful season. But was it as bad as the 1962 New York Mets? Or the 2003 Detroit Tigers? Or the 2023 Oakland A’s? Let’s find out.
I went back to the beginning of the expansion era in 1961 and looked at all the teams that were really bad. The 1962 - 1965 New York Mets have the worst four year stretch in baseball history. The most games they won in that stretch was 53 in 1964. The Houston Astros of 2011 - 2013 rivaled those Mets teams, winning 56 games in 2011 and actually got worse each of the next two seasons. The 1988 Baltimore Orioles started the season 0-18 and finished with a dismal 54-107 record. But that’s not even their worst team. The 2018 Baltimore Orioles went 47-115.
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