How historically bad are the 2018 Orioles?

This long Orioles season will mercifully enter its final month later this week, and September will define just how historically bad this 2018 baseball team really is. If things continue to slide, the ’18 Orioles could end up with the worst winning percentage of any team in more than 50 years.

Comparisons for the worst team in MLB history often start and end with the New York Mets of 1962 – the inaugural year for Casey Stengel’s team that finished 40-120 for a clean, but rotten .250 winning percentage. They were bad but not the worst. Two other teams, the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics and the 1935 Boston Braves, place ahead of the Mets for the lowest W-L % on record in the modern era (since…