For this initial season of Fake League Baseball we’ll be looking at the worst season for each current franchise by winning percentage. I pulled this information from baseball reference. Every team for this fake season has been placed in the league and division where they can be found in the real world, as much as it pains me to not have Milwaukee and Houston switch leagues so they can be back where they belong.
Out of the Park uses the logic and strategy of a specific year for managing the computer controlled teams. After consulting the great random number generator picking between 1883 and 2013 (the least and most recent years represented by the teams in this league) we’ve settled on using 1980 logic and strategy.
Due to teams relocating and changing names some of the teams here might not be what you’d expect. Throughout the season I’ll be referring to the teams with the name they used in their worst season. Just to make sure we’re all on the same page, here are the teams we’ll be looking at along with what current team they’re representing if it’s different from the current team.
- American League
- East Division
- 1932 Boston Red Sox: 43-111 record/ .279 winning %
- 1939 St. Louis Browns (Baltimore Orioles): 43-111-2 record/ .279 winning %
- 1912 New York Highlanders (New York Yankees): 50-102 record/ .329 winning %
- 1979 Toronto Blue Jays: 53-109 record/ .327 winning %
- 2012 Tampa Bay Devil Rays (Tampa Bay Rays): 55-106 record/ .342 winning %
- Central Division
- 1914 Cleveland Naps (Cleveland Indians): 51-102-4 record/ .333 winning %
- 2005 Kansas City Royals: 56-106 record/ .346 winning %
- 2003 Detroit Tigers: 43-119 record/ .265 winning %
- 1904 Washington Senators (Minnesota Twins): 38-113-6 record/ .252 winning %
- 1932 Chicago White Sox: 49-102-1 record/ .325 winning %
- West Division
- 1980 California Angels (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim): 65-95 record/ .406 winning %
- 1916 Philadelphia Athletics (Oakland Athletics): 36-117 record/ .235 winning %
- 1978 Seattle Mariners: 56-104 record/ .350 winning %
- 2013 Houston Astros: 51-111 record/ .315 winning %
- 1963 Washington Senators (Texas Rangers): 56-106 record/ .346 winning %
- East Division
- National League
- East Division
- 1962 New York Mets: 40-120-1 record/ .250 winning %
- 1969 Montreal Expos (Washington Nationals): 52-110 record/ .321 winning %
- 1998 Florida Marlins (Miami Marlins): 54-108 record/ .333 winning %
- 1935 Boston Braves (Atlanta Braves): 38-115 record/ .248 winning %
- 1883 Philadelphia Quakers (Philadelphia Phillies): 17-81-1 record/ .173 winning %
- Central Division
- 2002 Milwaukee Brewers: 56-106 record/ .346 winning %
- 1890 Pittsburgh Alleghenys (Pittsburgh Pirates): 23-113-2 record/ .169 winning %
- 1934 Cincinnati Reds: 52-99-1 record/ .344 winning %
- 1962 Chicago Cubs: 59-103 record/ .364 winning %
- 1897 St. Louis Browns (St. Louis Cardinals): 29-102-2 record/ .221 winning %
- West Division
- 1905 Brooklyn Superbas (Los Angeles Dodgers): 48-104-3 record/ .316 winning %
- 2012 Colorado Rockies: 64-98 record/ .395 winning %
- 1902 New York Giants (San Francisco Giants): 48-88-5 record/ .353 winning %
- 2004 Arizona Diamondbacks: 51-111 record/ .315 winning %
- 1969 San Diego Padres: 52-110 record/ .321 winning %
- East Division
You might notice that there are some repeat team names up there. Baseball is weird, I don’t really have any explanation for that besides people trying to pick up the tradition and history of a team that had already existed when a new team pops up.
Be ready for episodes to start dropping around March 26th, the opening of the real life 2020 MBL season. There will probably be a preseason episode or two before we start diving into game stuff.
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