What is the worst seasonal record that a MLB team has ever had?

david1975

That would have to be the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. Their win-loss record for that year was an abysmal 20-134 and a .130 percentage. Sep 09 08, 12:39 AM

BRY2K

Yeah, The 1899 Cleveland Spiders were Baseball's Worst Team. They were, in baseball historian Lee Allen's words, "the sorriest shell of a team ever seen in the major leagues." They lost 24 games in a row, had six streaks of 11 or more losses, and finished a record 84 games behind the league leaders. They won only half as many games as the 1962 New York Mets, usually considered the worst team of this century. They spent the last half of the season on the road, afraid to appear in front of their hometown "fans". Here are some of the "lowlights" of their abyssmal season: After the first 38 games the Spiders had 30 losses, and Manager Cross was relieved of command and exiled to St. Louis. This would be the high point of the season, because the Spiders won only 12 of their remaining 116 games. After this the Spiders transferred all their home games to opponents' cities, and played no more in Cleveland. Make no mistake, the 1899 Spiders had it all; bad players, bad management, and bad ownership. Bates claimed that the players became so shell-shocked by losing that "they practiced for dear life". Only once did the team win two in a row, which enriched some gamblers given four-to-one odds against such an event ever happening. The ownership of the club spent so much time insulting the Cleveland fans that the total attendance for the first 16 home games was 3,179. When attendance dipped in 1898, the owners announced that the fans did not deserve a winner, and that they intended to "punish" the fans by moving home games to other cities. http://www.wcnet.org/~dlfleitz/cleve.htm Sep 09 08, 3:50 AM

elburcher

Most Losses In A Season AL Detroit, Lost 119, Won 43 2003 NL Cleveland, Lost 134 Won 20 1899 http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/games_lost_records.shtml Sep 09 08, 5:46 AM