Indians Drop Yankees, Face Red Sox Next
October 9, 2007 by Geoff Young
Filed under Playoffs
Congrats to the Cleveland Indians for beating the Yankees in their house Monday night to take their ALDS, three games to one. In three of four series so far, the team with the much smaller payroll has won (salaries in millions; source, Cot’s Baseball Contracts):
Red Sox: $143.0
Angels: $109.3
Indians: $61.7
Yankees: $189.6
Diamondbacks: $52.1
Cubs: $99.7
Rockies: $54.4
Phillies: $89.4
If you’d seeded the playoff teams by money spent on salary, here’s what it would have looked like:
- Yankees
- Red Sox
- Angels
- Cubs
- Phillies
- Indians
- Rockies
- Diamondbacks
Three of the four teams from the bottom half have advanced the LCS. One of the two smallest salaried teams in the dance is guaranteed to reach the World Series. I don’t really care which of them makes it, although I have a slight preference for the Rockies because they’ve never been there before and I think they’re the better team.
On the other side, I continue to pull for the Indians. Hey, if they can knock off $190 million, $143 million should be piece of cake, right? 
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