With just a few days left in the regular season, the AL West might make a particularly mediocre kind of history.
After Tuesday night’s games, the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros were tied for first place at 78-79. No full-season division champion has ever had a losing record.
In fact, no team has made the postseason with a sub-.500 record, unless you count a trio of participants from years the playoffs were temporarily expanded: In the 2020 season shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic, Milwaukee and Houston were both 29-31 and made the postseason.
In 1981, the Kansas City Royals went 50-53 overall — but they were the AL West’s top team in the…
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