Longest Winning, Losing Season Streaks All-time

Consecutive Winning Seasons:

1. 39 Yankees (1926-64)
2. 18 Orioles (1968-85)
3. 17 White Sox (surprise!) (1951-67)
4. 16 Braves (1887-1902)
4. 16 Red Sox (1967-82)
4. 16 Yankees (1993-2008+)
7. 15 Pirates (1899-1913)
7. 15 Cardinals (1939-53)
7. 15 Braves (1991-2005)


Consecutive Non-winning Seasons:

1. 16 Red Sox (1919-34; .500 in '34)
1. 16 Phillies (1933-48)
1. 16 Cubs (1947-62; .500 in '52)
1. 16 Pirates (1993-2008+)
5. 15 Athletics (1953-67)
6. 14 Phillies (1918-31)
6. 14 Brown (1946-59; .500 in '57)
6. 14 Mariners (1977-90)
6. 14 Brewers (1993-2006)

Thus the Pirates would set an ignominous record should they recore another losing leason in 2009.

The Reds just missed 20 straight winning seasons from 1961-81, going 79-83 (.488 in 1971.

The Indians recorded nothing above .519 from 1969-1993 (25 years)

The Phillies had only one winning season among 31 from 1918-48: .506 in 1932.

Finally, I came across this strange anomoly: The Louisville Colonels of the old (major league) American Association improved from 27-111 (.196) in 1889 to 88-44 (.667) the next year, 1890, an increase of .471!

Colleges with the Most Major Leaguers

According to Baseball-Reference.com:

1. 100 Southern Cal
2. 95 Texas
3. 88 Arizona State
4. 77 Holy Cross (say what?!)
5. 72 Michigan
6. 69 Illinois
7. 67 Notre Dame
8. 63 UCLA
9. 60 Arizona
10. 58 LSU
11. 57 Alabama
11. 57 Oklahoma
13. 56 Fordham (again, say what?!)
14. 55 Florida State
15. 53 Penn (Ivy League!)

I'm guessing that most of the guys from Holy Cross, Fordham and Penn are from an earlier era...

While the top 3 are from warm weather sunbelt states where the college baseball season is longer, the next 4 (numbers 4-7) are not.

Longest Current Team Streaks of Winning, Losing Seasons

Time to gear back up for a new season. Start out with a short, simple entry.

Longest current streaks of winning seasons:

Yankees, 16 straight years (1993-2008)
Red Sox, 11 straight (1998-2008)
Phillies (surprised?), 6 straight (2003-2008)

Longest current streaks of losing seasons:

Pirates, 16 straight (1993-2008)
Orioles, 11 straight (1998-2008)
Reds, 8 straight (2001-2008)