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All Star Break: Buying Good Baseball Even Less Certain

July, 19 2013 by Nathanael Yellis

Opening Day's correlation of salary rank to power rank was an ok (but I still wouldn't bet on it) 0.59.

I updated the power rank numbers during the All Star Break, resulting in a new correlation of 0.31.

We could call the difference in coefficient from Opening Day to now the Cardinals-Pirates-Rays-Athletics effect. These teams are getting awesome production out of relatively cheap rosters. Alternately, we could call the difference Dodgers-Giants-Angels effect. Those teams are both abysmal and expensive.

Does anyone know who is tracking the effect trades are having on annual salaries by team?
Nathanael Yellis
Nathanael Yellis

Nathanael Yellis is a solution architect at HubSpot. He started his HubSpot career as a consultant on the professional services team in 2017. Prior to that, he led a client services team for a marketing agency and worked as a non-profit marketer and technology leader in Washington, DC. He holds an MBA from the Acton School of Business, is from Maine, and lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts.