In the 21 years since the publication of
Moneyball, MLB owners and their useful idiots in the media have spent a lot of time and energy trying to convince you of one thing above all else: that spending money on baseball players is a bad thing. If watching the
Red Sox slide down the payroll rankings isn’t enough to convince you of how ardently FSG believe this (and if
John Henry’s own words aren’t enough), here’s a new metric to consider.
“The Scrooge Index” ranks teams based on the percentage of total revenue they spend on player payroll. The
Mets, who spent an estimated 102% of their total revenue on payroll (meaning, if these numbers are to be believed, they are slightly in the red) ranked number one on the index, with the
Dodgers,
Diamondbacks, Blue Jays, and Royals rounding out the top five behind them.
