The New York Mets’ file of futility lasted 62 years till the Chicago White Sox claimed the title in 2024. Chicago’s maintain on the crown could final only one 12 months.
The White Sox completed final season with 121 losses, yet one more than the 1962 enlargement Mets, and the 2025 Colorado Rockies are on tempo to shatter that mark. Via 49 video games, Colorado is 8-41, the worst begin to a season within the fashionable period (since 1901). The Rockies are on tempo to win 26 video games. Contemplating they play in arguably the hardest division within the majors, that’s sensible. Chicago was in a tricky division, however the 2024 AL Central isn’t the identical caliber because the NL West.
So, are the 2025 Colorado Rockies worse than the 2024 Chicago White Sox?
The numbers, greater than a 3rd by way of the season, say sure. Chicago was 15-34 by way of 49 video games, had dropping streaks of 14 video games, 21 video games, and have been 3-22 from mid-August to mid-September. Colorado’s longest dropping streak is eight (finished thrice) and has one successful streak – a two-game streak. Over the past eight-game dropping streak, the Rockies allowed double-digit runs in 4 straight video games – at residence – capped by a 21-0 loss to San Diego on Might 10. Normal supervisor Invoice Schmidt gave a vote of confidence to supervisor Bud Black earlier than that loss, however fired him lower than 24 hours later – moments after a 9-3 win over the Padres – and changed him with interim supervisor Warren Schaeffer, who began 1-8.
A more in-depth comparability to the White Sox doesn’t give the Rockies cause for optimism for the remainder of 2025. In 2024, Chicago’s core rotation mixed for 21 wins in 104 begins. Colorado’s starters have mixed for 4 victories, which initiatives to 13 this season. The White Sox had a staff ERA of 4.67 and allowed 813 runs. The Rockies’ ERA is 5.92, and they’re on tempo to surrender 1,061 runs. Chicago dedicated 90 errors in 162 video games; Colorado has 43 by way of 49, which, over a full season, would equal 142. The White Sox hit .221 and slugged 133 residence runs. The Rockies are batting .218 and, regardless of enjoying in a hitter’s park, have hit solely 43 residence runs.
Colorado is in a youth motion – seven gamers have made their main league debuts this season – however the group has failed in its draft-and-develop expertise plan. A part of the Rockies’ technique was signing veterans to complement their youth, however that has not gone properly. They massively overpaid for a broken-down Kris Bryant, who has performed 170 of a doable 535 video games since signing a seven-year, $182 million free-agent contract earlier than the 2022 season. Second baseman Thairo Estrada, signed earlier than the season, suffered a wrist fracture in spring coaching and has but to play in 2025.
Historical past suggests Colorado will reel off a number of wins in some unspecified time in the future, however the place? Solely 10 of the Rockies’ 26 video games in June are towards groups beneath .500, and people 10 video games are on the street, the place they’re 3-22. The very best likelihood for a successful streak comes within the first week of August, when their first six video games are towards Pittsburgh and Toronto. By then, they might have cemented what we already know – they’re the worst main league staff in 124 years.