Teams Having At Least 3 Straight Seasons With A Winning Percentage Under .350

With their loss today, the Astros have a .337 pct. It was .346 in 2011 and .340 in 2012. So they might end up with 3 years in a row under .350. Not many teams have done this. The last to do it was the Mets, 1962-65 (I called up all the teams that had a pct. < .350 using the Lee Sinins Complete Encyclopedia and then pieced togther the ones that had 3 or more in a row-if anyone knows of a team I missed, let me know).

Even if we looked for teams with a pct < .375, the last to do it was the Blue Jays, 1977-79 with .335, .366, and .327. So the Astros are performing at the level of new expansion team these past 3 years.

Here the teams I found with 3 years in a row under .350. The team called the Washington Nationals is defunct. Retrosheet calls them the Nationals and Baseball Reference calls them the Senators.

Team	YEAR	PCT
A's	1919	0.257
A's	1920	0.312
A's	1921	0.346
Braves	1909	0.294
Braves	1910	0.346
Braves	1911	0.291
Braves	1912	0.340
Browns	1910	0.305
Browns	1911	0.296
Browns	1912	0.344
Stl. Browns (now Cards)	1895	0.298
Stl. Browns (now Cards)	1896	0.308
Stl. Browns (now Cards)	1897	0.221
Stl. Browns (now Cards)	1898	0.260
Cardinals	1906	0.347
Cardinals	1907	0.340
Cardinals	1908	0.318
Mets	1962	0.250
Mets	1963	0.315
Mets	1964	0.327
Mets	1965	0.309
Phillies	1938	0.300
Phillies	1939	0.298
Phillies	1940	0.327
Phillies	1941	0.279
Phillies	1942	0.278
Pirates	1952	0.273
Pirates	1953	0.325
Pirates	1954	0.344
Red Sox	1925	0.309
Red Sox	1926	0.301
Red Sox	1927	0.331
Washington Nationals	1893	0.310
Washington Nationals	1894	0.344
Washington Nationals	1895	0.336
Louisville Colonels	1894	0.271
Louisville Colonels	1895	0.269
Louisville Colonels	1896	0.290