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List of worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records

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2317: 2192:, in which the A's were upset by the Boston Braves in a 4-game sweep. The Athletics then finished in last place from 1915 to 1922. In 1916, they went 36–117, including 13–64 on the road. The 1916 Athletics' .235 winning percentage is the sixth-lowest of any MLB team and the lowest since 1900, along with their .170 road winning percentage. 2169:. Poor attendances meant that they played 97 of their 136 games on the road, finishing with a road record of 9–88: the 88 road losses remained a record until 1899, and is unreachable under current MLB scheduling rules, with the Alleghenys' .093 road winning percentage being the lowest in MLB history for a minimum of 60 games. 2214:
had promised Ruth an ownership stake in the Braves and a chance to manage the club in the near future but had little intention of delivering either. Ruth retired on June 1, 1935, having hit .181 in 72 at-bats for the Braves, with six home runs (the last three all coming on the same day, May 25, 1935,
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had fallen to 29–102 in 1897 (11–61 on the road) and to 39–111 (19–67 on the road) in 1898. The Spiders ownership, the Robison brothers, bought the Browns in time for the 1899 season, creating a conflict-of-interest situation which was later outlawed, and on the eve of the season, traded almost all
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categories) in modern MLB history. One baseball statistician described the Tigers as possibly "the worst team of all time without a good excuse", as virtually every other team on the list had been effectively reduced to minor-league status, was plagued by financial problems, or was a first-year
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With shorter schedules before 1886, it was much more common for teams to finish with sub-.300 winning percentages, as there was less of the evening-out effect of a longer season, and some seasons had a number of teams, with nine in 1884 alone (between the three leagues that year).
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own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and
1394:(its status as a major league has long been disputed), and the other occurred in the Union Association (conventionally listed as a major league, but this status has been questioned due to the league's overall lack of playing talent and poor organizational structure). 2254:, finished 40–120, the third-worst winning percentage in the modern era (.250) and the modern-era (since 1901), record for most losses. The Mets went on to finish last or next-to-last for seven years in a row before they shocked the baseball world by winning the 1322:
set the major league record for most consecutive losses in a season (24, from July 26 to September 16), and had six losing streaks of 10 games or more. The Spiders lost 40 of their last 41 games, finishing 84 games behind the 1899 National League champion
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Due to paltry attendances, the Spiders played 112 games on the road, finishing with a road record of 11–101 (the 101 road losses is a record which is unbreakable under the current MLB scheduling rules, which allow a maximum of 81 road games).
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had a 19–41 record, the fewest wins in a regular season since 1886, it is ignored because this took place in a pandemic-shortened season of sixty games, since the winning percentage was .317, higher than the .300 cutoff mentioned here.
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In the list below (minimum 15 games played), four teams finished with worse overall winning percentages than the 1899 Spiders, but these teams played in leagues whose status as "major" is questionable: three of these occurred in the
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The 1899 Browns, renamed the "Perfectos" and staffed with all the best players from the 1898 Spiders (six of the Spiders' eight starting position players, and four starting pitchers, including the great
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stood at 38–118 after 156 games, but won five of their last six games. On September 27, in their penultimate game, the Tigers came back from an 8–0 deficit to beat the
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folding operations. Baltimore had also been stripped of its best players by Brooklyn in 1899, to somewhat less dramatic effect, but still enough to speed their demise.
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were the first team since the 2003 Tigers to win fewer than 50 games and finished 61 games behind the eventual AL East and World Series champion Boston Red Sox.
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and 35 games behind the second-last-placed Washington Senators. They also lost 27 games in September, a record for the most games lost in a month until the
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did not consider the Union Association to be a major league, with the earliest record referencing the Union Association as a major league dating to 1922.
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The 1889 Colonels finished 9–65 on the road, and their .122 road winning percentage is the third lowest in MLB history for a minimum of 60 games.
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of Cleveland's star players to St. Louis for very little in return, with respectable results for St. Louis and disastrous results for Cleveland.
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After the 1899 season, the National League contracted from twelve to eight clubs for the 1900 season, with the Spiders, the
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9–8. When the Tigers won the season finale to avoid tying the record, they received a standing ovation from the crowd.
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to fulfill its dreams of becoming a major league, filling the void in a number of cities by renaming itself the
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The Spiders had reasonable success in the 1890s, with seven straight winning seasons from 1892 to 1898 and a
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pennants in 1910, 1911, 1913 and 1914 and the World Series in 1910, 1911 and 1913. However, owner-manager
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The 1890 Alleghenys were gutted before the season when nearly all of their best players defected to the
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based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule predicts a record of 24–138.
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became only the 12th Triple Crown loser (a player who finishes last in all of the three
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The following teams finished the season with a .300 winning percentage or lower.
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at the end of the 1957 season. The Mets, filled with castoffs like "Marvelous"
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victory in 1895, while the once four-time American Association champion
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felt that he was unable to pay his star players' salaries while the
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On a Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place: Baseball's Worst Teams
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that adopted the discarded nickname and also appear on this list.
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List of best Major League Baseball season win–loss records
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in 1900, and declaring itself a major league in 1901.
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Index

List of worst MLB season records
Major League Baseball
National League
American League
American Association
Players' League
Pct.
GB
1899
Cleveland Spiders
1890
Pittsburgh Alleghenys
1889
Louisville Colonels
1897
St. Louis Browns
1886
Washington Nationals
1886
Kansas City Cowboys
1898
St. Louis Browns
1895
Louisville Colonels
1890
Buffalo Bisons
1894
Louisville Colonels
1896
Louisville Colonels

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