The Chicago White Sox, already safe of their standing as one of many worst groups in trendy Main League Baseball historical past, suffered one other indignity on Saturday by recording the earliest mathematical elimination from postseason competition in both the wild-card or divisional period. (That’s, to place a precise timeframe on it, since 1969.) The White Sox bested the earlier document, which belonged to the 2018 Baltimore Orioles, by three days, in accordance with former MLB Community researcher Jessica Model.
The White Sox clinched the achievement after dropping a 6-1 contest to the Houston Astros, dropping their seasonal document to 30-94. Whereas these 2018 Orioles completed the 12 months with a 47-115 mark, these White Sox are on tempo to lose 123 video games. The trendy document for essentially the most losses in a single season is 120, established by the growth New York Mets in 1962. No different workforce has misplaced as many as 120, and solely 4 different golf equipment have dared to lose as many as 115 video games.
The maths on Chicago’s elimination is easy. The White Sox exited Saturday 38 1/2 video games again of each the American League Central and last wild-card spot with 38 video games left to play.
As our Dayn Perry lately famous, these White Sox even have the chance (if one can describe it as such) to ascertain the worst profitable share in trendy historical past. Chicago enters Sunday having received 24.2% of its video games; for reference, solely the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics, who went 36-117, received a decrease share.
Earlier this summer season, the White Sox turned simply the seventh MLB workforce to lose greater than 20 consecutive video games. In flip, this membership has established two of the 40 longest dropping streaks in trendy MLB historical past in a single season. So as to add insult to damage, the White Sox won’t be allowed to choose greater than tenth in subsequent 12 months’s draft below MLB’s guidelines prohibiting non-revenue sharing groups from being a part of the lottery in consecutive years.
