Payroll Efficiency
The $200 Million Rotation
Three teams spent over $200 million on their 2025 starting rotations. Their average cost per WAR was $14.2 million. Buying pitching has diminishing returns; building it does not.
Data-driven visual essays that make the invisible physics of baseball visible. Spin rates, swing decisions, and probability shifts, designed to be felt, not just read.
150 years of baseball. 20,000+ careers. Pick your ballot from the data. WAR, peak value, postseason performance, and the arguments that never end.
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Three teams spent over $200 million on their 2025 starting rotations. Their average cost per WAR was $14.2 million. Buying pitching has diminishing returns; building it does not.
Since 2010, 78 all-star players left small-market teams via free agency. 91% signed with top-15 payroll clubs. Revenue sharing failed to solve baseball's talent gap.
Players in their walk year outperform career averages by 3-5%. Then they sign and regress. The pattern is consistent.
Data-driven analysis of baseball's biggest shifts. No fluff, no gatekeeping.
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