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The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
The all-time best single season record belongs to the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who posted baseball's only perfect record at 67–0 (57–0 against National Association of Base Ball Players clubs) in 1869, prior to Major League baseball. Their record stretched to 81–0 across the 1870 season before losing 8–7 in eleven innings to the ...
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule ...
Over the course of 145 seasons (from 1876 to 2023, excluding 1981, 1994, and 2020), 119 teams have won 100 or more games in a single Major League Baseball season. While this makes the feat a relatively common occurrence, the 100-win threshold remains the hallmark of the best teams in a given season.
The following is a listing of pitching win and winning percentage records in Major League Baseball. All teams are considered to be members of the American or National Leagues, unless noted. Players denoted in boldface are still actively contributing to the record noted. An (r) denotes a player's rookie season.
Record Player # Season Most wins Old Hoss Radbourn: 60 1884: Most losses John Coleman: 48 1883 Lowest E.R.A. Eugene Bremer: 0.711 1937: Most strikeouts Matt Kilroy: 513 1886: Most shutouts George Bradley Pete Alexander: 16 1876 1916: Most innings pitched Will White: 680 1879: Most complete games Will White 75 1879: Lowest WHIP Hilton Smith.6176 ...
Both the individual and team single-season games played records were set at the beginning of a seven-year span that began with the 1962 National League expansion to 162 games and ended after the 1968 season, when the NL replaced its traditional best-of-three tiebreakers with one-game playoffs. The 1962 season was the only occasion during those ...
Charles Radbourn [3] holds the record for the most wins in a single-season, winning 60 games in 1884. [4] John Clarkson [5] (53 in 1885) and Guy Hecker [6] (52 in 1884) are the only other pitchers to win more than 50 games in a single-season. [7]