No one has ever been this good at being bad.
Entering Wednesday night, the Rockies lost 40 of their first 48 games. The only teams who started in a similar fashion played in the 1800s when bats were made with wagon tongue wood and fans arrived by horse and buggy.
However awful you think the Rockies are, they are worse. On any given night, their roster features roughly 10 big league players. They don’t do anything well. Their hitters lead MLB in strikeouts, rank second to last in on-base percentage and third worst in batting average, while posting the third fewest stolen bases.