Kevin Dame over at Visual Baseball has done some research on the Yankees and their AL East rivals, and looks at what players are earning their paychecks. The results may surprise you.
“PayScale plots prorated salary (Y axis) against WAR (X axis) and uses a rough baseline of $4.5M per win as “fair compensation.” Players which a higher $/win are classified as overpaid, while players with a lower $/win are classified as bargains.
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For the Yankees, it’s the rock-solid value (still!) of their old guard of Posada, Jeter, Rivera, and Pettitte. For the Red Sox, it’s the tremendous value they’re getting out of Youkilis, Lester, Buchholz, and Pedroia (Boston’s younger version of the Yankees’ old guard).”
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M. B. Rozell
Kevin Rozell
Ooooh, look at the purty colors… enough with these bogus statistics already!!!