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Current Video: Beyond the Box Score: Bank on it

Which MLB teams got the best bang for their payroll bucks this season? The Sports Professor, Rick Horrow, goes beyond the box score to find out.

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" This is -- sports professor Rick -- with you're beyond the box score cost per win most efficient and not. Everybody talking about the haves and the have nots and revenue re distribution with all of the major market teams in the Final Four for playoffs. But here's an interesting calculation what he took. -- number of wins in divided by the total payroll and see who the most efficient and least efficient teams are. First starting with the least efficient. So bottom five the Tigers the Astros the Cubs. And the Yankees Yankees for example tornados our payroll under three wins that two million dollar per win. But far and away the least efficient is their crosstown -- in the New York Mets. 149 million dollar payroll seventy wins over two point one million bucks per win. Now go the other way the most efficient the top five. Rangers raise twins and Padres and the most efficient team in Major League Baseball at a cost -- win bassist -- Florida Marlins. A 3637. Million dollar payroll. 87 wins. At a 420000. Dollars per win. The most efficient team in Major League Baseball now the fans just hope they made the playoffs. The bottom line it's it's not really the payroll you have but what you do with it. --"

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