Tag: MLB payrolls
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It’s Mostly About the Money
Money doesn’t buy happiness as the saying goes. On the other hand, we here at BP would rather take our chances with having money (and lots of it) and finding happiness than the other way around. The same goes for MLB team payrolls and success. As of August 27th, here is a look at the…
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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…
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Follow the Money, or Maybe Not?
Based on our last post (MLB Competitive Balance Not So Much), we examined the success and failure rates of all major league clubs by creating what we term the Baseball Purist (BP) Success Rate. We wondered though if there is a correlation between our rudimentary metric and the amount spent by each club over time. …
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