This MLB season all 5 teams in the AL West finished with a negative run differential for the regular season:
Houston Astros -32
Texas Rangers -46
Seattle Mariner -58
West Sacramento Athletics -238 (!)
Los Angeles Angels -97
However, this is not the first time this "feat" has happened in MLB. What was the first-and-only-other-modern-era MLB regular season--give the year, league and division--in which every team in a division finished with a negative run differential?
Houston Astros -32
Texas Rangers -46
Seattle Mariner -58
West Sacramento Athletics -238 (!)
Los Angeles Angels -97
However, this is not the first time this "feat" has happened in MLB. What was the first-and-only-other-modern-era MLB regular season--give the year, league and division--in which every team in a division finished with a negative run differential?
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)