The 2024 Chicago White Sox, still the worst team in baseball history

The Colorado Rockies avoided disaster with their 42 win of the 2025 season, thus winning at least one more game than the White Sox last season.

The 2024 season was a painful journey for everyone involved with the Chicago White Sox, who saw their team descend into an abyss little known before.

The White Sox became the biggest loser in Major League Baseball history with their 41 - 121 record in 2024, leaving behind the Mets who, in their 1962 expansion campaign, fell 120 times. Unlike the New York team, which is considered a team of inexperienced rookies, these White Sox were supposed to improve on their 61-101 record from the previous season. But none of that happened.

At the start of the 2024 season, both general manager Chris Getz and manager Pedro Grifol, who was later fired, displayed an optimism that now seems cruelly ironic. Getz praised his players’ IQs, and Grifol highlighted the addition of promising talent. But promises of a better season quickly faded with a series of devastating injuries and a string of questionable managerial decisions.

The Ordeal of Injuries

Injuries played a crucial role in the White Sox’s terriible season. Yoan Moncada, Luis Robert Jr., Eloy Jimenez, and Andrew Benintendi — the top four hitters in the Opening Day lineup — missed a combined 268 games. These players, who make a combined $66.4 million, were only available 53.6 percent of the time. Injuries are a valid excuse, but they’re also a stark reality that reflects the fragility of the roster.

Andrew Vaughn, who was expected to emerge as a key player, has been unable to fill the void left by Jose Abreu. Since Vaughn became the primary first baseman, the team has had a disastrous record of 97-221 compared to previous seasons under Abreu’s leadership. Additionally, the rapid regression of two-time All-Star Tim Anderson, who was never the same after an injury in 2022, left the team without an anchor at shortstop.

The White Sox front office clung to an outdated management model, ignoring modern baseball trends like the Moneyball approach. While other teams, like the Cubs and Astros, have embraced advanced algorithms and analytics to evaluate talent, the White Sox have been left behind, stuck in a last-century approach. Their metrics are the same as teams used decades ago, and they have been unwilling to dig deeper into the numbers like other big-time organizations do.

Failure to update its analysis department has caused its statistics to be disastrous

The White Sox’s statistical performance in 2024 was abysmal. With a team offensive line of .221/.278/.340 and an OPS+ of 76.

They were outscored 813-507 in 2024, with a run differential of -306. The team leader in RBI was Andrew Vaughn, with just 70.

A Bitter Farewell

The White Sox’s downfall is a tragedy for a franchise that, less than two decades ago, was celebrating a World Series championship. Now, the worst team in modern baseball history, they face an uncertain future. Fans, players, and the city itself are caught in a whirlwind of frustration and hopelessness, watching helplessly as their team plummets into the abyss of infamy.

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