So the regular season of baseball has ended … with lightning speed from my perspective. I don’t remember season that moved so quickly, but I am sure it is just another example of accelerating time as you get older.
A couple of teams go to the play -offs (I remember it was only four) and I finally come up with that. But at the moment I want to address a team that the play -offs has not reached. In fact, it ended as far away as possible from the play -offs.
The Rockies completed the season 43-119. That is a .265 winning percentage. That is pathetic. That is a pathetic team.
It may not seem so shocking because there was a team that was even worse last year. The White SOX 2024 finished 41-121 for a .253 percent.
Here are now the worst teams since I became a fan:
1. Chicago White Sox, 2024, .253
2. Colorado Rockies, 2025, .265
2. Detroit Tigers, 2003, .265
4. Baltimore Orioles, 2018, .290
5. Detroit Tigers, 2019, .292
6. Oakland Athletics, 2023, .309
7. Arizona Diamondbacks, 2004, .315
7. Houston Astros, 2013, .315
9. Arizona Diamondbacks, 2021, .321
9. Baltimore Orioles, 2021, .321
The White Sox and Rockies have been shot down. Also note that eight of the 10 teams played in the last seven years. I have been a fan since 1975, but I have not experienced the worst teams I have ever seen for up to 45 years in watching baseball. (The only team in the “Same Ballpark” of badness from my time as a younger – the Blue Jays of 1979 – fell out of the bottom 10 with this update).
We are really in a new era of terrible teams. Let’s see how the current terrible teams relate to the worst of all time in modern times:
1. Philadelphia Athletics, 1916, .235
2. Boston Braves, 1935, .248
3. New York Mets, 1962, .250
4. Washington Senators, 1904, .252
5. Chicago White Sox, 2004, .253
6. Philadelphia Athletics, 1919, .257
7. Detroit Tigers, 2003, .265
7. Colorado Rockies, 2025, .265
9. Pittsburgh Pirates, 1952, .273
10. Washington Senators, 1909, .276
With the exception of the Tigers of 2003, that list of worst records was already intact for half a century. I remember that I repeatedly read about the 1962 Mets and the Pirates from 1952 as the worst of all time (you still hear about the ’62 Mets, with good reason). Now two teams have placed themselves straight with the other two who have been making jokes for decades. And they did it within two years. But will the ignorance of these two teams still take 50 years in tradition?
I do not believe in a salary limit and I wish the commissioner would stop driving up because he will immediately go into a strike. But there should certainly be a salary floor. Or – here is an idea – kick out every owner who is not interesting to see his team win, namely that Major League Baseball should be about.
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