ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays deserve your love. If not your love, at least your respect.
Year after year, they put a winning product on the field even with the odds stacked against them. And, trust me, the percentages are definitely not in their favor.
While Major League Baseball is loathe to admit it, economics matter when it comes to winning. Over the last 15 seasons, 64% of the playoff teams were in the top half of the league in payroll. So it goes to follow that only 36% of MLB’s postseason teams were among the bottom half of spenders.
