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Race to the Bottom

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Someone suggested that it's time for a race to the bottom. Well, it's a little early for the sidebar (the Twins are currently in 31st place for most losses in a season in franchise history, that makes for a long list on the sidebar).

However, I took the time to put the list together, below the fold.

Rank Year games Wins Losses
1 1982 162 60 102
2 1999 161 63 97
3 1997 162 68 94
4 2000 162 69 93
5 1998 162 70 92
6 1983 162 70 92
7 1993 162 71 91
8 1986 162 71 91
9 1978 162 73 89
10 1995 144 56 88
11 1990 162 74 88
12 1971 160 74 86
13 1985 162 77 85
14 1996 162 78 84
15 1980 161 77 84
16 2007 162 79 83
17 1975 159 76 83
18 1968 162 79 83
19 1964 163 79 83
20 1989 162 80 82
21 1984 162 81 81
22 1973 162 81 81
23 1979 162 82 80
24 1974 163 82 80
25 2005 162 83 79
26 2001 162 85 77
27 1987 162 85 77
28 1977 161 84 77
29 1976 162 85 77
30 1972 154 77 77
31 2011 131 55 76
32 2009 163 87 76
33 2008 163 88 75
34 1966 162 89 73
35 2003 162 90 72
36 1992 162 90 72
37 1988 162 91 71
38 1967 164 91 71
39 1962 163 91 71
40 2004 162 92 70
41 1963 161 91 70
42 2010 162 94 68
43 1981 110 41 68
44 2002 161 94 67
45 1991 162 95 67
46 2006 162 96 66
47 1969 162 97 65
48 1970 162 98 64
49 1994 113 53 60
50 1965 162 102 60

Read 'em and weep.

14 thoughts on “Race to the Bottom”

  2. That's pretty amazing that the Twins in 47 full seasons they've lost 94+ only three times and they've won 94+ six times, including three under Gardy. Especially for a small-market team (or at least they were before TF).

    2. The Twins have only had 47 full seasons if you're denying the first 61 years of their existence.

  3. I didn't start paying much attention to baseball until a year or two after I graduated college in December 2000. I see by the records in '97, '98, '99 and '00 that I wouldn't have missed much those years. That was a brutal 4-year stretch, the way it looks.

    1. It was, but it wasn't. Sure they were never going to knock off the Thome mashers to win the AL Central. However, they had enjoyable players to watch like Knoblauch and Molitor and later Matt Lawton. Also, while they lost a lot of games because they had no pitching, there was still the opportunity to catch a BRadke start every 5 days. You could see potential in guys like Koskie, Ortiz, Anthony John, Jacque and Torii - it was just a matter of trying to get it all to click.

      Those teams lacked major league ready talent, but didn't really beat themselves with bindblowingly bad baserunning and atrocious fielding. TK wouldn't stand for that (and I'm sure he is privately extremely furious watching the team this year).

  4. Such optimism, SBG.
    As the Twins aren't going to win more than three or four games before the end of the season with a 1-0 score, the proper way to look at this is fewest wins in a season.
    Right now, they're at third-fewest wins, ahead of strike-shortened years 1981 and 1994, but they're still behind strike-shortened 1995.
    They need six more wins to avoid the full-season record. (Five ties 1982.) I'm not sure if they have that. Houston isn't on the schedule, and if they can't win one game out of four against the Os at home, where are those six wins coming from?

    1. Hold on one second. Are you questioning my ability to track crappy teams??????? I would have though that my chronicling of the Twolves over the last several years has proved, beyond a doubt, that I know what I'm doing. The right to do this is to count losses. That way, as you lose, you continue to move past previous seasons and toward the bottom.

      1. Sure, if you see the glass 5% full.
        Right now, I see it 95% empty, so I'm assuming that the rest of the schedule is losses and only actual wins will change my expectations.

  5. This list is unfair to the badness that was the 1981 Twins. Sure, they only lost 68 games, but they only played 109. In a full season, they'd have taken their place near the top (bottom?) of the list.

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