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2001 MLB Losses by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Games lost

The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays shared the lead of all of MLB in losses in 2001, with 100. The average across 30 MLB teams is 80.9.

Led all of MLB in 2001 Pittsburgh Pirates 162 games
100 Losses Tied with Tampa Bay Devil Rays
# Team League G L
1 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 162 100
1 Tampa Bay Devil Rays AL 162 100
3 Baltimore Orioles AL 162 98
4 Kansas City Royals AL 162 97
5 Cincinnati Reds NL 162 96
5 Detroit Tigers AL 162 96
7 Milwaukee Brewers NL 162 94
7 Montreal Expos NL 162 94
9 Colorado Rockies NL 162 89
9 Texas Rangers AL 162 89
11 Anaheim Angels AL 162 87
12 Florida Marlins NL 162 86
13 San Diego Padres NL 162 83
14 Toronto Blue Jays AL 162 82
MLB average 80.9
15 New York Mets NL 162 80
16 Boston Red Sox AL 161 79
16 Chicago White Sox AL 162 79
18 Minnesota Twins AL 162 77
19 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 162 76
19 Philadelphia Phillies NL 162 76
21 Atlanta Braves NL 162 74
21 Chicago Cubs NL 162 74
23 San Francisco Giants NL 162 72
24 Cleveland Indians AL 162 71
25 Arizona Diamondbacks NL 162 70
26 Houston Astros NL 162 69
26 St. Louis Cardinals NL 162 69
28 New York Yankees AL 161 65
29 Oakland Athletics AL 162 60
30 Seattle Mariners AL 162 46

A team's total is its players' numbers for the club added up, so a player traded mid-season counts for each team only what he did there. Rates such as ERA and batting average are worked out from the team's summed totals, not averaged across players.