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Gentleman
>>95589 Because Tampa Bay, the Athletics, the Pirates, the Nationals and the Marlins pay the same salaries as the Yankees, right?
The "average" Yankees player earns $6,744,567, against $661,712 for the "average" Marlins player. So just like in the EPL, it's a few clubs that pull the average up. Or, perhaps unlike the EPL, it's not really teams, but rather "players".
The EPL system means that clubs need to finish 1st over 38 games between 20 clubs to be champion. Whilst a playoff system like the MLB only requires to be 1st in the division, or wild-card. And then win the face-off games in the playoffs. There are massive differences in salaries within clubs like the Yankees that don't exist within their counterparts in the EPL. Chelsea have differences in salary between their "best" players and their bench players, but nothing as ridiculous as the difference between Alex Rodriguez' $28 millions and Jose Molina's under-$2 million salary when they've played the same number of games so far...
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