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The Nats and O’s Don’t Stand a Chance
By Jamie Mottram | September 28, 2010
Via the New York Times:
The chart below compares baseball teams’ payroll spending over the last decade with their won-loss record. Several teams with modest payrolls have done well this season, but over the last decade as a whole, the relationship between salaries and wins has been strong.
The Nats have had really low payrolls, and they’ve been a bottom-feeding team. The O’s have had middling payrolls but are also bottom-feeders. Only two teams with similarly low-to-middling payrolls have performed well above .500 — the Twins and the A’s. Shine on, you crazy outliers.
Also, this is why everyone hates you, Boston and New York.
Topics: Infinite Sadness, Nationals, Orioles | 4 Comments »
September 29th, 2010 at 9:13 AM
Although the O’s may never be economically competitive, floating realignment would at least give them a chance to make the playoffs (and we wouldn’t have to deal with 25 thousand Yanks/Sawks fans at Camden dozens of times every single year)
September 29th, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Floating realignment would be great but I highly doubt Bud and his cronies would go for it. I hardly ever follow the O’s any more because I know that in the East, they have a 1% chance of making the playoffs. Even if they had a decent year, the big money spenders and the Rays will have a much better record.
September 29th, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Given ‘Money Ball’, I wonder if the A’s really could spend “Red Sox Money” and get “Yankees Wins” out of it…
October 9th, 2010 at 4:44 AM
at least the Red Sox earn their cash. Their wins are above the mean by how much they get payed and there are a lot of other teams who do that by a much higher amount. But it all comes down to how many people go to the games regularly.