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Opening Day: Can't Buy Me Wins, but Can Buy Me Love

Written by Nathanael Yellis | April, 1 2013

Number of the day: 0.59. That's the correlation coefficient between an MLB franchise's rank in spending and power ranking.

Sure the top five teams in spending are loved, but they probably can't buy wins.

In other words, this is priceless: