the tampa bay rays are the mlb team that has lost the most games.
what mlb team has lost the most games?
the tampa bay rays
the tampa bay rays also began the season (their first after dropping the "devil" from their name) with a winning record in the opening month of april. the rays became the first team since 1903 to have the league's best record on memorial day (the last monday in may) after finishing in last place the previous season. the team went 16–10 in june, but lost seven consecutive games leading up to the all-star break. in august, the rays lost seven games to finish out the month with an overall record of 84–51. the team concluded the season, albeit with a 13–14 record in september, by winning the american league east title for the first time in franchise history. as the devil rays, they had never finished with a winning record, nor finished higher than fourth in their division. the rays beat the chicago white sox 3–1 in the american league division series. in the american league championship series, tampa bay defeated the boston red sox in seven games (4–3), to advance to their first world series in franchise history. the rays became the third mlb team in the post-1969 "divisional era" to make the world series in their first trip to the playoffs, joining the 1969 new york mets and the 1997 florida marlins.
2008 world series
under this system, when an npb player is "posted", his npb team notifies the mlb commissioner, with the posting fee based on the type of contract a player signs and its value. the fee is a flat 25% of the value of a minor-league contract; for mlb contracts, the fee is based on the value of the contract that the posted player eventually signs. the player is then given 30 days to negotiate with any mlb team willing to pay the npb team's posting fee. if the player agrees on contract terms with a team before the 30-day period has expired, the npb team receives the posting fee from the signing mlb team as a transfer fee, and the player is free to play in mlb. if no mlb team comes to a contract agreement with the posted player, then no fee is paid, and the player's rights revert to his npb team. the current process replaced one in which mlb held a silent auction during which mlb teams submitted sealed, uncapped bids in an attempt to win the exclusive negotiating rights with the posted player for a period of 30 days. once the highest bidding mlb team was determined, the player could then only negotiate with that team.
posting system