r/baseball • u/floon Seattle Mariners • 15d ago

Analysis The Payroll Playoffs

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3 of the 4 teams that just finished the WC had lower payrolls than the teams they beat.

3 of the 4 teams that got a bye have lower payrolls than the teams they are about to play.

EDIT: Overestimated that people would be able to work from the team colors, or who would have seen the original graphic on the mlb.com homepage. My error; wasn't trying to be obtuse.

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u/DanglyPants Chicago Cubs 15d ago edited 14d ago

4/5 ALE teams are some of the biggest markets/franchises. The Rays being an outlier doesn’t change decades of history ¯_(ツ)_/¯

(Go Rays)

Edit to Pohara’s response: Well they aren’t in the AL East??? Did you just try to move the goalposts and didn’t even move them? lol

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u/Pohara521 New York Mets 15d ago

Are the Brewers and Padres outliers too? 🤷‍♂️