The A’s are getting dangerously close to having the worst 162-game baseball season ever

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By Connor Buestad | Connor@Section925.com

We are coming down the back stretch of the baseball season and the A’s are firmly on pace to achieve the dubious honor of being the worst team in franchise history since they moved to Oakalnd in 1968. Now in their 56th season by the Bay, Oakland has lost 100 games just twice during their time at the Coliseum. Back in 1979 they turned in their lowest win total at 54-108 and just last year the A’s went 60-102. Now in 2023, with ownership doing everything they can to break their fanbase’s collective heart and move them to Vegas, the A’s are on pace to finish 45-117. Currently, the A’s are sitting at 33-87 and they must play .500 ball over their last 42 games to avoid eclipsing Oakland’s 108 loss “record.”

.500 ball might be a lot to ask for from a team that is currently playing .275 ball, but at 39 games back of Texas in the AL West, at this point you can only hope the A’s can stave off the 2003 Tigers and finish a bit better than their 43-119 record-setting 162-game season. Have there been worse seasons in Major League Baseball history? Yes, maybe a few. But there has never been a team that’s lost 120 games or more in the modern era of a 162-game schedule. 

Right now you know John Fischer and Dave Kaval are somewhere other than Oakland, checking the scores daily on their phones, smiling at every A’s loss, knowing it only helps their cause of uprooting the team from Oakland and shipping them off to the highest bidding city in waiting. We can only hope the A’s can somehow rally and avoid making history for all the wrong reasons. But as August slowly starts turning into September, the possibility of 120 losses is starting to get a bit too real. It only begs the question: where’s the Rally Possum when you need him most? One of those 20 game win streaks certainly wouldn’t hurt in times like these.