First of all, it's important to congratulate the Phillies. The franchise enjoyed its 10,000th win this year. They started the year with 9,935 wins, and won 87 during the year, bringing the total to 10,022.
On a similar note, the Miami Marlins won 69 games, so the geographic identifier "Miami" passed the 700 win mark, going from 653 to 722. Congratulations, "Miami"!
The Marlins and the Tampa Bay Rays combined for 155 wins. So the state of Florida, which opened the season with 3,947 wins, enjoyed its 4,000th, finishing the season at 4,102. Congratulations, Florida!
There were no new teams, and no franchise movement, so there was very little changing of ranking. But there was some. The Mets passed the Rangers to move into 19th place in wins. And "Miami," as a geographic identifier, passed "Anaheim" (which is no longer used by any team) to move into 32nd place.
But the big movement could be found in team nickname. The Cleveland franchise stopped using "Indians" after the 2021 season, replacing it with "Guardians," becoming the first ever major league franchise to use the "Guardians" nickname. They won 92 games this year, so the nickname now ranks 95th. Below are the nicknames that "Guardians" passed.
I plan to share my updated wins and games-over-.500 graphs in a future post. I find those graphs fun to look at, but they are kind of useless in terms of conveying useful information.
A note:
"N/A" is what I am using for the Chicago/Pittsburgh UA franchise from 1884. Some sources give their names as the Stogies (Pittsburgh) and Browns (Chicago). Following my general protocol, I would call them the "Stogies/Browns." But baseball-referenc.com doesn't give them a name. And since that site is my source for all truth, that is what I am going with.
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