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.

The complete album can be seen here. I also made the NFL and NHL charts (before the current season).

9 comments

  1. Wow, you can really pick out the moment Tito was hired in this chart. Completely changed the organization. Despite the lack of playoff success, we have seen a lot of winning since then. I think we actually have the third most wins since then among all teams, but correct me if I’m wrong!

  2. Very cool. Looks like we’re going to win our 10,000th game as a franchise this coming season.

  3. Wow, not being under .500 for over 100 years is absolutely maddening, and the next few years should provide even more of a cushion, but hopefully they win a World Series again finally to make this all worth it

  4. Neat, except the part from ’63 – ’93. I may have missed or mis-understood, what do the stars indicate, like around 1922 and 1949?

  6. Orioles and Rockies are depressing. And then the way the White Sox totally plummet is wild

  7. Crazy how we’ve had better records almost every season after the 1948 World Series win

  8. This is super cool. I never really appreciated how consistently this team has cumulatively put together winning seasons and remained relatively successful in the regular season (although the team tried their best to change that in the 1960-80s). Even more impressive when compared to the other teams. Thanks for putting this together, OP!

  9. I knew the 50s teams were good, but I don’t think it ever occurred to me how good they really were. That is a pretty insane climb.

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