"Matt Kemp is poised to join abaseball fraternity. Membership requires a player's statistics pile up, along with his team's losses. Superstars on division-leading teams or contenders need not apply.

The club includes Seattle's Felix Hernandez and Kansas City's Zack Greinke, Cy Young Award winners who both pitched for last-place teams. Vladimir Guerrero was a member as one of the National League's most feared hitters for six mostly dreadful teams in Montreal

Alex Rodriguez spent three years on board with Texas, failing to lift the Rangers out of last place in the American League West despite hitting at least 47 homers and driving in at least 118 runs in each of his seasons there.

Kemp's numbers, and his team's free fall in the standings, make the Dodgers center fielder the newest candidate for inclusion. The Dodgers are in last place in the NL West and are on pace for their worst season since finishing 71-91 in 2005.

Don't blame Kemp. Coming into the weekend, he ranked among the major league leaders in batting average (.331), home runs (22), runs batted in (63), on-base percentage (.415), slugging percentage (.628) and stolen bases (22), putting him on pace for career highs in each category except batting average."