I love following anything extreme, so glad you pointed this out--wow!
-- going into tonight's game, they'd hit eight home runs as a team; no one over two-- seven of nine regulars between .069 and .222 (not much different than the Jays, actually)-- .200/.273/.310 as a team-- they look as hapless offensively as the '68 White Sox, who I often mention
This says as much about me as them, but of their 12 pictured WAR leaders on BRef, the only guy I know is Kevin Pillar. I see they have at least one good pitcher, Garret Crochet--maybe someone can nab him in a trade.
Tonight: shut out on four singles.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:06 (two months ago) link
feel awful for (canadian!) RHP mike soroka
so many injuries, and now things are becoming brutal while playing for this awful team
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 April 2024 01:09 (one month ago) link
43 runs scored in 20 games; the '68 White Sox (463 runs for the season) scored 45 in their first 20.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2024 18:28 (one month ago) link
(Soroka deserved to win in one of his five starts; he's been pretty bad otherwise.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2024 18:30 (one month ago) link
Worst starts the past 100 years:
Baltimore Orioles (1988) - 2-23
CHICAGO WHITE SOX (2024) - 3-22
Cincinnati Reds (2022) - 3-22Detroit Tigers (2003) - 3-22St. Louis Browns (1936) - 4-21Cleveland Indians (1969) - 4-21Boston Red Sox (1932) - 4-21Oakland Athletics (2023) - 5-20Chicago White Sox (1948) - 5-20Pittsburgh Pirates (1952) - 5-20Kansas City Royals (2006) - 5-20Kansas City Royals (2018) - 5-20Philadelphia Phillies (1928) - 5-20Houston Astros (1969) - 5-20Montreal Expos (2004) - 5-20Cincinnati Reds (2018) - 5-20Chicago Cubs (1981) - 5-20Milwaukee Brewers (1970) - 5-20St. Louis Cardinals (1973) - 5-20Chicago White Sox (1950) - 5-20Kansas City Athletics (1965) - 5-20Kansas City Royals (1992) - 5-20Florida Marlins (1995) - 5-20
― clemenza, Friday, 26 April 2024 03:44 (one month ago) link
'62 Mets started 7-18.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 April 2024 03:45 (one month ago) link
I mentioned on another thread that the Astros (a consensus preseason top 3 pick to win the world series) are only 3.5 games ahead of the CWS... yikes.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 26 April 2024 04:07 (one month ago) link
#freedusty
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 April 2024 04:18 (one month ago) link
Two of those teams, the '69 Astros and '73 Cards, managed to finish at 81-81. Farther down the list, the '86 Reds and '96 Red Sox started 6-19 and finished with 86/85 wins.
https://champsorchumps.us/records/worst-mlb-regular-season-records-through-25-games
― clemenza, Friday, 26 April 2024 04:38 (one month ago) link
The Astros this year are such a weird mix of extremes.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 April 2024 04:40 (one month ago) link
White Sox blew a 5-1 lead to the Cubs tonight: 13 losses in a row, 15-47. That puts them on pace to finish 39-123, one game worse than the '62 Mets.
They're even worse when you remove their two good starters, Croche and Fedde. (Sounds like some kind of niche store in a pricey mall.) Those two guys are 9-6 with a combined ERA ~ 3.25; they're 6-41 otherwise. Not sure of their record in games started by those two.
No way they both finish the season in Chicago--guessing they'll trade Fedde, who's six years older.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 June 2024 03:28 (one week ago) link
i read a couple days ago that San Diego is looking into Crochet
― francisF, Thursday, 6 June 2024 12:50 (one week ago) link
Passan said they’re also interested in trading Luis Robert Jr, who I think is rehabbing rn.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 6 June 2024 12:53 (one week ago) link
robert has been back for a couple of days. they have him under contract for a few more years so he might not get traded.
― na (NA), Thursday, 6 June 2024 13:09 (one week ago) link
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/06/white-sox-trade-rumors-luis-robert-garrett-crochet.html
― na (NA), Thursday, 6 June 2024 13:15 (one week ago) link
Yeah they have him under a really nice deal but they would likely get a good haul of prospects for him for a rebuild if they traded him. They have some high ranked prospects but some aren’t close to ready and the rest of the farm seems to be pitching heavy so they might decide to fill up their farm that way to accelerate the process.https://www.mlb.com/prospects/top100/
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 6 June 2024 13:18 (one week ago) link
Their is clearly one better team in the battle of the Soxes.
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 8 June 2024 22:25 (one week ago) link
Their's no there their.
7-31 on the road
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 June 2024 05:10 (eight hours ago) link