The Los Angeles Dodgers showcased splashy signings Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but other teams focused on the fact that pricey payrolls don’t translate into titles very often. Baseball’s biggest spender has won the World Series just three times in the last 23 seasons.
FILE - Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred speaks during a baseball spring training media day Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in Tampa, Fla. “Clearly having a very high payroll is correlated with winning more games in the regular season,” Manfred said Tuesday, March 19, 2024. “The saving grace for us has been that our playoffs are unpredictable enough that the 110-win team doesn’t automatically march through the playoffs.
Just 12 of the last 29 World Series winners had the top regular season record in their league.
Some teams appear to have reduced payroll because of local broadcast revenue uncertainty. MLB took over broadcasts of Padres and Arizona games last year after Diamond Sports Group filed for bankruptcy protection. Boston’s Alex Cora and the Yankees’ Aaron Boone are lame-duck managers in the final seasons of contracts. The Yankees are coming off an 82-80 record, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2016.BUSINESS OF BASEBALLagreement to buy the Orioles from Peter Angelos
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