Saturday, March 12, 2005

Parity in baseball

Jayson Stark has a column on a point I made a while back: for all the complaints about the Yankees' budget and so on, there really is parity in baseball right now.
How many teams are truly hopeless? It's a list that's shorter than David Eckstein.

It could be as few as four teams. It might be as many as eight. But six is more like it. And that's a long ways from two-thirds, in anybody's math book.

To get a clearer picture, we did a recent scout-and-GM survey on this. Shockingly, only four teams – the Rockies, Royals, Pirates and Devil Rays – got a vote from all six of the people we polled.


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Hey, check it out! Detroit representing by not being on the list! Way to go, Tigs!

By Sam on March 14, 2005 8:02 AM | Permalink  

True - the existence of the AL Central is a big factor in ensuring parity.

By Daryl on March 18, 2005 7:33 AM | Permalink  

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