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2002 MLB Losses by Team

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

The Detroit Tigers, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays shared the lead of all of MLB in losses in 2002, with 106. The average across 30 MLB teams is 80.8.

Led all of MLB in 2002 Detroit Tigers 161 games
106 Losses Tied with Milwaukee Brewers
# Team League G L
1 Detroit Tigers AL 161 106
1 Milwaukee Brewers NL 162 106
1 Tampa Bay Devil Rays AL 161 106
4 Kansas City Royals AL 162 100
5 San Diego Padres NL 162 96
6 Baltimore Orioles AL 162 95
6 Chicago Cubs NL 162 95
8 Texas Rangers AL 162 90
9 Colorado Rockies NL 162 89
9 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 161 89
11 Cleveland Indians AL 162 88
12 New York Mets NL 161 86
13 Cincinnati Reds NL 162 84
13 Toronto Blue Jays AL 162 84
15 Florida Marlins NL 162 83
16 Chicago White Sox AL 162 81
16 Philadelphia Phillies NL 161 81
MLB average 80.8
18 Montreal Expos NL 162 79
19 Houston Astros NL 162 78
20 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 162 70
21 Boston Red Sox AL 162 69
21 Seattle Mariners AL 162 69
23 Minnesota Twins AL 161 67
24 San Francisco Giants NL 162 66
25 St. Louis Cardinals NL 162 65
26 Arizona Diamondbacks NL 162 64
27 Anaheim Angels AL 162 63
28 Atlanta Braves NL 161 59
28 Oakland Athletics AL 162 59
30 New York Yankees AL 161 58

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.