Quite possibly the worst baseball team in 40 years.
Currently 22 and 45 which is a .328 winning percentage, and if you multiply 162 (game season) by .328 (Philly won/loss percentage) you get 53.
Philly is on a pace to win 53 games, and lose 109.
The only other team I can find in the last 40 years that was 2015 Philly kind of bad was:
2003 Detroit Tigers
43 and 119 - Dave Dombrowski's first full season as GM (welcome to the show Dave) and Alan Trammell was the skipper.
If you looked at just the offense, you would say to yourself, "they had a few sticks, how's they lose 119?"
Dmitri Young had a solid season .297/29/85, Carlos Pena hit 18 out, Craig Monroe hit 23 out, Eric Munson hit 18.
The pitching wasn't just bad, it was a special kind of bad.
The save leader had 5 (Mears) Guess who was second with three saves? Fernando Rodney.
The staff was anchored by 9 and 21 Mike Maroth, and 6 and 19 Jeremy Bonderman.
I've just looked at all the 100 + loss teams in the past 40 years.
Almost all of them weren't as bad as this Philly team.
2004 Arizona Diamondbacks were 51 and 111, but they had Hall of Fame Randy Johnson and Brandon Webb was actually a pretty good starter as well.
Casey Fossum was God awful though.
Shea Hillenbrand hit .310 with 15 bombs, Steve Finley had some game, so did Lu-Gonz, Chad Tracy was more than dependable.
1988 Braves were were 54 and 106, but they had Dale Murphy, out the door on his way out Ken Griffey, Ron Gant and pitchers Mahler and 7 and 17 22 year old Tom Glavine. I think that pretty much the last season the Braves really sucked ass.
1982 Twins were 60 and 102 with 4 regulars in the lineup that hit 20 or more homeruns. (Hrbek, Gary Gaetti, Gary Ward and Tom Brunansky).
*side note, I saw Brunansky live and in color at Fenway make that sliding catch for the Red Sox to clinch the division in 1990.
The only team that really rivals this years Phillies in all out suckness is the 1988 Baltimore Orioles.
Inventors of the term auto-fade.
Started out losing their first 21 games, pretty much 0 for April.
They had the two Ripkens, Eddie Murray, Mike Boddiker and still managed to lost 21 straight.
I still say, looking at the entire structure of your 2015 Philadelphia Phillies that they are the kings of inept.
Revere is the best they got for average, look at the power numbers, non-existent.
What good is all those swipes if nobody can knock you home.
Look at the entire team power numbers.
Chase Utley not too long ago was an elite 2B, look how far he's fallen.
Take away Hamels, and look at your rotation.
Don't let Harang's numbers fool you, those numbers are skewed when he was pitching out of his cleats in April, he has returned to suckness too
I really think this is the worst baseball team in 40 years
Currently 22 and 45 which is a .328 winning percentage, and if you multiply 162 (game season) by .328 (Philly won/loss percentage) you get 53.
Philly is on a pace to win 53 games, and lose 109.
The only other team I can find in the last 40 years that was 2015 Philly kind of bad was:
2003 Detroit Tigers
43 and 119 - Dave Dombrowski's first full season as GM (welcome to the show Dave) and Alan Trammell was the skipper.
If you looked at just the offense, you would say to yourself, "they had a few sticks, how's they lose 119?"
Dmitri Young had a solid season .297/29/85, Carlos Pena hit 18 out, Craig Monroe hit 23 out, Eric Munson hit 18.
The pitching wasn't just bad, it was a special kind of bad.
The save leader had 5 (Mears) Guess who was second with three saves? Fernando Rodney.
The staff was anchored by 9 and 21 Mike Maroth, and 6 and 19 Jeremy Bonderman.
I've just looked at all the 100 + loss teams in the past 40 years.
Almost all of them weren't as bad as this Philly team.
2004 Arizona Diamondbacks were 51 and 111, but they had Hall of Fame Randy Johnson and Brandon Webb was actually a pretty good starter as well.
Casey Fossum was God awful though.
Shea Hillenbrand hit .310 with 15 bombs, Steve Finley had some game, so did Lu-Gonz, Chad Tracy was more than dependable.
1988 Braves were were 54 and 106, but they had Dale Murphy, out the door on his way out Ken Griffey, Ron Gant and pitchers Mahler and 7 and 17 22 year old Tom Glavine. I think that pretty much the last season the Braves really sucked ass.
1982 Twins were 60 and 102 with 4 regulars in the lineup that hit 20 or more homeruns. (Hrbek, Gary Gaetti, Gary Ward and Tom Brunansky).
*side note, I saw Brunansky live and in color at Fenway make that sliding catch for the Red Sox to clinch the division in 1990.
The only team that really rivals this years Phillies in all out suckness is the 1988 Baltimore Orioles.
Inventors of the term auto-fade.
Started out losing their first 21 games, pretty much 0 for April.
They had the two Ripkens, Eddie Murray, Mike Boddiker and still managed to lost 21 straight.
I still say, looking at the entire structure of your 2015 Philadelphia Phillies that they are the kings of inept.
Revere is the best they got for average, look at the power numbers, non-existent.
What good is all those swipes if nobody can knock you home.
Look at the entire team power numbers.
Chase Utley not too long ago was an elite 2B, look how far he's fallen.
| NAME | GP | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | BA | OBP |
| Ben Revere | 65 | 257 | 31 | 71 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 13 | 29 | 16 | 0.276 | 0.314 |
| Maikel Franco | 31 | 121 | 17 | 33 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 0.273 | 0.313 |
| Jeff Francoeur | 54 | 144 | 13 | 38 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 7 | 26 | 0 | 0.264 | 0.294 |
| Freddy Galvis | 60 | 220 | 24 | 58 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 36 | 5 | 0.264 | 0.308 |
| Andres Blanco | 39 | 50 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0.26 | 0.315 |
| Odubel Herrera | 61 | 208 | 19 | 52 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 57 | 7 | 0.25 | 0.283 |
| Grady Sizemore | 39 | 98 | 4 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 0 | 0.245 | 0.288 |
| Cameron Rupp | 23 | 71 | 3 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 0 | 0.239 | 0.313 |
| Darin Ruf | 43 | 102 | 9 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 25 | 0 | 0.235 | 0.279 |
| Carlos Ruiz | 47 | 156 | 11 | 36 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 24 | 0 | 0.231 | 0.302 |
| Ryan Howard | 61 | 222 | 21 | 51 | 15 | 1 | 11 | 28 | 11 | 69 | 0 | 0.23 | 0.271 |
| Cody Asche | 47 | 168 | 9 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 44 | 0 | 0.226 | 0.264 |
| Cesar Hernandez | 54 | 109 | 16 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 21 | 3 | 0.22 | 0.328 |
| Chase Utley | 62 | 206 | 18 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 21 | 30 | 3 | 0.184 | 0.263 |
Take away Hamels, and look at your rotation.
Don't let Harang's numbers fool you, those numbers are skewed when he was pitching out of his cleats in April, he has returned to suckness too
| NAME | GS | W | L | IP | HR | BB | SO | K/9 | WHIP | ERA |
| Cole Hamels | 14 | 5 | 5 | 94.1 | 11 | 31 | 103 | 9.83 | 1.11 | 2.96 |
| Aaron Harang | 14 | 4 | 8 | 89 | 9 | 24 | 61 | 6.17 | 1.1 | 3.24 |
| Jerome Williams | 14 | 3 | 7 | 70 | 14 | 19 | 41 | 5.27 | 1.7 | 6.43 |
| Sean O'Sullivan | 9 | 1 | 5 | 51.1 | 9 | 15 | 20 | 3.51 | 1.46 | 5.08 |
I really think this is the worst baseball team in 40 years