![[OC] Athletics' historical performance relative to .500](https://www.rawchili.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/8ouw6115295g1-1920x1024.png)
Visiting Pirates fan here!
During the offseason, I'm creating a graph like this for every MLB team. It tracks each franchise's cumulative record relative to .500 (equal wins and losses) throughout their entire history.
The annotations show the franchise's all-time peak, lowest point, and most recent time at exactly .500.
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I love this. It’s such a great way to show performance and commitment to win over time.
Suggestion: if possible, add vertical dotted lines on all the years of ownership changes and maybe individual graphs of each ownership regime.
Over the course of 50 years, the Athletics won 5 World Series titles in Philadelphia. Over the course of 142 years, the Phillies have won 2 World Series in Philadelphia.
Multiple runs of absolute legendary performance over the course of decades. I wish my hometown were the final stop. Never thought we would truly see the day they leave.
The Oakland Athletics were well over .500, with 4 World championships in 57 seasons, and were victorious in the most one-sided World Series Sweep in the history of baseball in 1989.
FJF!