{"id":26492,"date":"2023-05-10T15:06:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26492"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:06:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:06:40","slug":"brief-loser-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26492","title":{"rendered":"Brief loser update."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are into the baseball season, but not as far in as I would like to be. I sometimes try to post a loser update around the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>But I did decide I wanted to throw up a link to this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/dCBCm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why the worst MLB teams of 2023 are historically bad<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of stats in the article for you baseball people, but summarizing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/dCBCm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simply put, it is a real thing and it is very, very unusual in a historical context. We can argue about if it will continue, but for now, this is the reality of the big league competitive landscape: There are some teams playing very badly. There are an usual number of teams playing very badly. And there are an unusually large number of teams playing so badly.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oakland is currently 8-30, for a winning percentage of .211. That works out to 127 losses this season if trends continue. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_worst_Major_League_Baseball_season_win%E2%80%93loss_records\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 1962 Mets lost 120 games, and the 2003 Tigers lost 119<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are into the baseball season, but not as far in as I would like to be. I sometimes try to post a loser update around the All-Star break. But I did decide I wanted to throw up a link to this: &#8220;Why the worst MLB teams of 2023 are historically bad&#8220;. There are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loser","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26493,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26492\/revisions\/26493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}