Last week's big debate over whether Felix Hernandez deserves the AL Cy Young (he does), and the sudden realization that Hernandez has been so good that more mainstream reporters, like Ken Rosenthal and Jon Heyman, were supporting his candidacy, got The Common Man to wondering about the best seasons ever by players on terrible squads. Hernandez's 2010 has been terrific, but prior to this year, it was in danger of going unrecognized because of his low (13) win total. Who else might have been overlooked because of their teammates?
So TCM looked at the top WAR seasons (BR.com method) by players whose teams finished with a winning percentage below .400, and then accounted for the number of games their teams played. Here are the top 40 greatest seasons on terrible teams:
