Saturday night in Colorado's Coors Field, the Reds lost, 4-3. Given that the Rockies are generally very tough at home and it was a one-run game, normally this wouldn't be the type of result that would garner a team some dubious coverage. This was the last day of April, however, and the endpoints of each month are a natural time to do some glancing around the league.<\/p>\n
As we glance, we see the Reds at 3-18, the worst record in baseball. It's not even really close, as everyone else has at least six wins.<\/p>\n
No, we need to look outside 2022 to find teams that were as bad in April as these Reds and that list isn't very long, either.<\/p>\n
In an April calendar that is at least 2\/3 full of games, the worst team is an easy and obvious one. Remember that Sports Illustrated cover from 1988 with Billy Ripken holding a bat against his forehead in the dugout? It said, simply, \"0-18.\" That 1988 Orioles team would actually start 0-21 before finally winning a game and finished April at a horrifying 1-22.<\/p>\n
The 2003 Tigers were the worst team since the 1962 expansion Mets went 40-120. That Tigers team was 43-119 when the season mercifully ended for them. They went 3-21 in April.<\/p>\n
By record alone, those are the only two teams in April baseball history we can say were definitely worse than the 2022 Reds. Here are some numbers from historically-bad April teams (March is looped in when the season started that month). Via Stathead search:<\/p>\n
So, again, with a sample of at least three weeks of baseball before we got to May, we can nail down two teams that had a worse introductory month to a season than than the 2022 Cincinnati Reds. That's it.<\/p>\n
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