Pirates payroll cost per win among lowest in MLB


Pirates payroll cost per win among lowest in MLB

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  1. Would’ve been nice if they spent more on 15 additional wins or so but at least Nutting can finally save some money

  2. I know people don’t want to hear it but this is the argument for keeping Cherington at least.

  3. This needs a more sophisticated analysis. A league minimum payroll will still win 30% of their games.

  4. I would like to see a deeper dive on these type of numbers… Doing a straight “dollars per win” calculation isn’t appropriate for a sport with as much randomness as baseball.

    Any team of even-remotely-professional-caliber players is going to win at least 40-50 games, and putting together a team of such players is going to cost a certain amount of money.

    I think it would be better to look at it in terms of incremental spend (and wins) from that baseline, and I suspect that this would reveal that incremental wins in the MLB are extremely expensive once you get to a certain point.

    Not saying it justifies Nutting running the team the way he does, just something that bothers me from a statistical standpoint. Also, it’s a decent case for a salary cap + floor, but we know that’ll never happen so kind of a moot point.

  5. Now if they could only base the cost of tickets based on their winning percentage.

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