It doesn’t get much worse than losing 100 games in a major league season. The White Sox achieved this despite a winning record for the month of August that included a 14-6 stretch. If they had played .500 ball during that 20-game stretch – which still would have represented 117 points higher than their .383 winning percentage for the year – they would have lost 104 games.
The team’s heralded youngster Yoan Moncada struggled to the degree he just missed tying the team record for strikeouts by five and breaking the all-time major league record by seven.