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 …read more
