The Chicago White Sox continue to know no bounds when it comes to futility.
There’s little room for anything approaching optimism on the south side of the Windy City as the team continues to lose games like Taylor Swift changes outfits. Friday night, the Chicago White Sox accomplished a feat not seen in MLB since the turn of the century — last century.
With a 7-0 loss at the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday, the Chicago White Sox were shut out for the seventh time in the team’s first 19 games. No other MLB ballclub has managed that type of futility since baseball’s “modern era” began in 1901.
Chicago White Sox Have Been Lousy
The Chicago White Sox continue to lose games at a record pace. At the team’s current 3-16 pace, the Southsiders will go just 25-137, which would pulverize the records for futility set by the 1962 New York Mets (40-120) and the 2003 Detroit Tigers (43-119).
Chicago’s American League entrant currently boasts a winning percentage of just .158. That percentage far out-sinks any team from the modern era — a mark currently held by the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics (.235), but “bests” any previous worst percentage in MLB history but one.
As badly as things are currently going for the Chicago White Sox, the team still isn’t winning at a worse clip than the storied 1899 Cleveland Spiders. That woebegone squad, which went bankrupt and folded that season, are still safe in their all-time record of awfulness at 20-134, a winning percentage of .130.
At Some Point, the Chicago White Sox Will Likely Win a Few More Games
It’s really difficult to be historically awful. Even last season’s putrid Oakland Athletics managed to go 50-112. The A’s started out winning just 10 of their first 50 games and still put together a few winning streaks to take 40 of the remaining 112 contests.
However, at the Chicago White Sox’s current pace, the team will win just eight of its first 50 games. That is just one game better than the current record for fewest wins over that span — held by the 1897 Louisville Colonels, who went 7-43 to start that campaign. The Colonels folded two seasons later, the same year that the Spiders made the wrong kind of MLB history.
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Tom Carothers is a sportswriter with more than 20 years of experience covering sports at the high school, collegiate, and professional levels. Still longing for the return of his Minnesota North Stars, he has a high pain tolerance as a big fan of the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Browns, and Tottenham Hotspur.
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