Baseball Purist

Tag: mlb payroll

  • MLB Salaries and the Other Leagues: Yes There is a Difference!

    As we noted in our last post (Rich vs Poor), there is a large chasm between the wealthiest and the poorest clubs in the MLB landscape.  We wondered whether this difference between the haves and the have nots was also true in the other sports. In the table below we compare MLB with the other…

  • Rich vs Poor

    Rich vs Poor

    The Los Angeles Dodgers have made the biggest splash this off-season of all the major league clubs by signing Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.  Combined, the Dodgers shelled out over $1 billion to obtain Ohtani ($700 million over 10 years) and Yamamoto ($325 million over 12 years).  Ohtani’s contract is the largest in sport’s history…