The Purple Sox have been no stranger to gradual begins lately, however 2026 takes the cake. As April involves an finish, the crew has an abysmal 12-19 file, the supervisor’s been fired, hit pieces are starting to trickle out about the infighting, Garrett Crochet just landed on the IL, and the offense couldn’t hit water in the event that they fell out of boat. The notion of “it’s early” has gone from a comforting restoration of confidence to a risk they’re going to spoil your complete summer time.
So with the Purple Sox fortunately out of video games to play in April with at the moment’s off day, the query turns into: is that this the worst Purple Sox April of all time? By pure win proportion, that honor goes to the 1932 crew, which began 3-11 (baseball season began a bit later again then) on their strategy to 111 losses. However that crew was imagined to be horrible. It was their 14th straight dropping season after successful the World Sequence in 1918. The 2026 crew was imagined to be good.
Once I consider current underachieving Purple Sox squads, my thoughts instantly goes to 2011 and 2019. That 2011 crew began off 0-6, however by the top of April they have been beginning to steadiness issues out a bit and have been as much as 11-15. The 2019 crew in the meantime, which doesn’t get practically sufficient hate, was additionally 4 video games underneath .500 on the finish of April at 13-17. In different phrases, the 2026 Sox are virtually twice as many video games underneath .500 as these different two have been. The 2012 Bobby Valentine Sox? They have been 11-11 on April thirtieth. So yeah, that is depressing!
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