{"id":21586,"date":"2024-06-26T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21586"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:23:07","slug":"a-half-of-futility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/a-half-of-futility\/","title":{"rendered":"A Half Of Futility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21364\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire.jpg 600w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>As the 2024 season reaches its midway point, the White Sox are a wretched 21-60.\u00a0 Assuming they replicate this effort in the second half, they would finish 42-120, which would be the worst season in franchise history and one of the worst in MLB history.\u00a0 But, with the trade deadline fast approaching on July 30, anyone playing well will likely be shipped off to a contender, making the White Sox even worse down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>The worst team in White Sox history is, depending on your definition, the 1970 squad, which lost 106 games, or the 1932 team, who lost &#8220;only&#8221; 102 games but, due to the shorter season, had a lower winning percentage at .325.\u00a0 The current pace of the 2024 team would blow both of those records away.<\/p>\n<p>Post-1900, the high-level mark for losses in a single season is 120, reached by the expansion Mets in 1962.\u00a0 The 1916 Philadelphia A&#8217;s managed a .235 winning percentage, holding the futility mark in that regard.\u00a0 The 2024 White Sox currently have a .259 winning percentage, so they do have some breathing room, but not a whole lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2024 season reaches its midway point, the White Sox are a wretched 21-60.\u00a0 Assuming they replicate this effort in the second half, they would finish 42-120, which would be the worst season in franchise history and one of the worst in MLB history.\u00a0 But, with the trade deadline fast approaching on July 30, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[123,261,2244,49],"class_list":["post-21586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21587,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586\/revisions\/21587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}