The 2024 Chicago White Sox are, by pretty much every objective measure, not just a bad Major League Baseball team, they are a historically bad team. Historically bad within the context of their own franchise, and soon to be among all teams. They cemented their status as the former on Sunday afternoon with a 2-0 loss to the New York Mets.
That loss was their 107th of the season, setting a new low point for the franchise.
That loss breaks the previous franchise record of 106 losses that was set by the 1970 club.
What makes this record-setting loss so incredibly dubious is that it happened on Sept. 1, when there is still a month of baseball remaining. After Sunday the White Sox still have 24 games to play, which is going to give them more than enough time to set a new modern record for single-season futility. The 1962 New York Mets still own that mark with 120 losses, and it is now very much in danger of being broken.
The White Sox would need to go at least 12-12 the rest of the way to avoid tying that mark.
Given the way this season has played out, that seems almost impossible to imagine.
Especially now that the team is in the middle of its third different 10-game losing streak of the season.
Even more so when you consider the team is just 4-40 in its past 44 games.
At their current win pace for the season (.224 winning percentage) they are on pace to win just 36 games, which would give them 126 losses, shattering the mark set by the ’62 Mets.
If they somehow continued on the pace they have been on over the past 44 games (.090) that means they would win only two more games the rest of the way, which would result in a 129-loss season.
Honestly, all of that seems to be on the table at this point given the way things are going. Especially with teams like the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Guardians, Boston Red Sox and San Diego Padres still remaining on their schedule.
