 The Mets had never finished higher than ninth place in a ten-team league in their first seven seasons.As an expansion team, they went 40–120 in 1962, the most losses by an MLB team in one season in the 20th century, and the 1962 Mets' .250 winning percentage was higher than only the .248 posted by the 1935 Boston Braves.The Mets never had been over .500 after the ninth game of any season.