Team payroll: #29 Baltimore beats #2 Yankees last night. Yankee payroll is 275% more than Baltimore's.

Friday, July 28, 2023

Start Time: 7:05 p.m. Local

Attendance: 34,558

Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Game Duration: 2:35

Night Game, on grass

Orioles 1, Yankees 0

HR: Anthony Santander (18, off Tommy Kahnle, 9th inn, 0 on, 1 out to Deep RF). Kahnle struck out the first batter, Santander was the second.

Starting pitchers:

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	Pit	Str	Ctct	StS	StL	GB	FB	LD	Unk	GSc
Gerrit Cole	7	3	0	0	0	5	0	2.64	24	110	74	41	11	22	10	9	5	0	76
Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	Pit	Str	Ctct	StS	StL	GB	FB	LD	Unk	GSc
Grayson Rodriguez	6.1	3	0	0	2	4	0	6.21	23	97	70	42	12	16	8	9	4	0	69

Baltimore started a rookie: Rodriguez. The Yankees started their ace: Cole. Cole was runner up for the Cy Young award with Houston in 2019 and the Yankees in 2021. The Yankees are paying Cole $36,000,000 for each season 2020-2028. EACH season. 

East Division

 

Tm	W	L	W-L%	GB
Baltimore Orioles	63	40	.612	--
Tampa Bay Rays	63	43	.594	1.5
Toronto Blue Jays	58	46	.558	5.5
Boston Red Sox	56	47	.544	7.0
New York Yankees	54	49	.524	9.0

Yankee Aaron Judge played for the first time since June 3, 2023. His first time up, Judge hit the first pitch from Rodriguez and lined out to right. Judge walked in all three remaining plate appearances, two against Rodriguez. The Yankees were shutout even with Judge back in the lineup.

Teams sorted and compared on Attendance and Payroll so far in 2023. Friday, July 28, 2023

Data through July 27, 2023 derived from:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2023-misc.shtml ...

Dodgers #1 in Attend/G, #8 in Est Payroll.

Mets #1 in Est Payroll, #11 in Attend/G.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2023-standings.shtml

First place teams Attend/G, Est Payroll rank:

AL: Baltimore 23/29, Minnesota 18/17, Texas 15/6

NL: Atlanta 6/12, Milwaukee 16/19, Dodgers 1/8

Some wild card contenders Attend/G, Est Payroll rank:

Tampa 27/27

Toronto 8/7

Boston 12/10

Yankees 3/2

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Team payroll estimated and rounded:

2. Yankees: $270,000,000

29. Baltimore: $72,000,000

270-72=198  Yankee payroll is 275% (198/72) more than Baltimore's. Wins: Baltimore 63, Yankees 54.

Brian Cashman has been general manager of the New York Yankees since 1998. 2001-2022 the Yankees won the World Series in 2009. That's one 1 for 22: .045 "batting" average. Those 22 seasons include dry spells of 8 and 13 years. That's 13 and counting.