Welcome back to SI’s MLB Power Rankings! This week’s focus? We’ll be looking at split selves—the ten teams with the biggest performance gaps between their pitching and their hitting, as measured by ERA+ and OPS+. (For more on the rankings’ format, click here, and for last week’s edition, click here.) Onward!
The Marlins’ pitching is bad, among the worst in baseball. But their hitting is truly terrible. Their 70 OPS+ is not quite the worst ever, but it is tied for the worst of the modern era, providing some long awaited company for the dismal records of the 1920 Philadelphia Athletics and 1901 Boston Beaneaters.