The Chicago White Sox are a historically bad baseball team and are on pace to have the worst record in baseball history.
Through 145 games so far this season, the White Sox currently sit at an abysmal 33-112 record, which is a winning percentage of 22.8%.
The 2003 Detroit Tigers recorded the worst win-loss record in a 162 game season, where they finished the year with a record of 43-119.
Chicago will have to go 10-7 to end the season in order to match this record. In their last 47 games, the White Sox have only managed to win six, totaling a record of 6-41 since the All-Star break in mid-July.
The White Sox are currently last in the MLB in runs scored, home runs and runs batted in. They are also a bottom five team in hits, doubles, batting average, walks, on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
The White Sox’ longest winning streak this season was four games, a streak that dates back to mid-May. The White Sox also have had three separate losing streaks this season of at least 10 games.
Those streaks have spanned 14 games, 21 games and 12 games, totaling 47 losses.
If you were to subtract those losses from the White Sox’s current record, they still have the worst winning percentage in all of baseball.
The White Sox also set a record for their most consecutive losses twice this season. In late May and early June, the Sox went on a losing streak that spanned 14 games which, at the time, was a new franchise record.
After the All-Star break, the Sox proceeded to lose 21 games in a row, breaking the record previously set a few months prior. The Sox historic 21-game losing streak came just two games short of the modern era record.
The 2024 White Sox were the seventh team in the modern era to lose 20 consecutive games, and the first since the 1988 Baltimore Orioles.
According to baseball reference, the Chicago White Sox leader in wins above replacement this season is right handed pitcher Erick Fedde. Fedde was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in July.
Other notable players in the top-10 for WAR are right handed pitcher Michael Kopech, who was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in late July, and third baseman Yoán Moncada, who has not appeared in a Major League game since April and has only appeared in 11 total games this season.
The White Sox currently sit 40.5 games behind the Detroit Tigers for fourth place in the American League Central Division. The team with the next worst record in baseball, the Miami Marlins, are 32 games back of first place in all of baseball.
The Marlins are currently closer to the best team in baseball than the White Sox are to fourth place in their division.
The White Sox bullpen has also played a significant role in the team’s poor record. The bullpen currently has the second-worst earned run average in all of baseball, trailing only the Colorado Rockies, with a 4.85 ERA.
The Sox’ bullpen has also surrendered 31 blown saves on the year in 49 opportunities. For comparison, Cleveland Guardians right-handed pitcher Emmanuel Clase has converted 30 consecutive save opportunities and has converted 43 of 46 save opportunities.
