The Chicago White Sox will likely finish the 2024 season with their worst record in modern MLB history.
MLB ranks teams by winning percentage, and the team's current record is 36-117 for a winning percentage of .235, its worst season since the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics.
The team has been a disappointment all season. Strike A player on our team hits me in the face with the ball Loss I forgot how many outs there were and stopped the game.
Uploaded Videos X The White Sox claimed that a total of 98 fans attended a doubleheader in April. Whether that's true or not, the White Sox actually 4th lowest average attendance rate Despite being by far the worst team in the league.
The honor may be the team's lone bright spot this season, but dark clouds have been hanging over the franchise for so long that even the team's official X-account seems depressed.
“Final result: the other team scored more goals than us,” the team wrote sadly. X.
As mentioned above, if the season were to be canceled, the White Sox would tie the 1916 Athletics for the fewest wins (36) and worst winning percentage (.235) in a season.
Many people are reporting that the White Sox have a chance of winning. The worst record ever While we consider the modern era to be the post-World War II era, the 1960 New York Mets are a benchmark for disaster: They finished the season with a record of 40 wins and 120 losses, a winning percentage of 0.250.
With nine games remaining, the White Sox need to win six of them to beat the Mets 41-121 and barely win at a .253 winning percentage.
In this nearly impossible scenario, the White Sox would already consider themselves the worst team of the modern era and be looking to add to their historic record.
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If the White Sox win two more games and finish with a 38-124 record, they will have their fewest wins in a season since the Boston Braves in 1935.
If the White Sox win one more game for a total of 37, they will have their fewest wins since 1919 and their worst winning percentage since 1901, at .228.
But true glory might be achieved if the White Sox lose each of their remaining nine games to finish the season with a 36-126 record.
Sure, they would finish the season with their fewest wins since 1901, but that dismal record was culminated in a .222 winning percentage. 1886-1900s.
A team of the White Sox's caliber would fall just behind the 1897 St. Louis Browns (29-102, .221 winning percentage).
A look at the Browns roster and player names gives a good idea of just how long ago this era was.
The team's leading batting average was catcher Klondike Douglas, while other stars included outfielder Tuck Turner and shortstop Montford Montgomery Cross.
The pitching staff included Cornelius Lucid, Red Donahue and Kid Kersey.
Klondike Douglas at Chicago's West Side Grounds in 1903Photo credit: Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News Collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images
Check out the Chicago White Sox's historic final game, three games against the San Diego Padres, three games against the Los Angeles Angels, and their final three games against the Detroit Tigers.
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