The Royals have had plenty of terrible seasons in club history, but the 2023 season may take the cake. The team is on pace to lose 111 games, which would easily surpass the club record of 106 losses set in 2005, and would tie for the seventh-most losses by any club since World War II. They’re battling the Oakland Athletics - a team that isn’t even trying - for worst record in baseball.
So this may be an unprecedented bad season for Royals fans, but other fanbases have gone through seasons like this in recent history. In 2003, the Detroit Tigers lost 119 games, threatening the modern MLB record for losses in a season.