April 8, 200917 yr Major League Baseball teams cut payrolls by $47 million from opening day in 2008 to the first day of this season, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. That was a drop of 1.7 percent, the first drop since 2004 and just the second since the 1994-95 strike. Link
April 10, 200917 yr A 2% drop is nothing, but I bet it isn't long before the players union starts crying about collusion somehow.
April 10, 200917 yr Author QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 10, 2009 -> 11:57 AM) A 2% drop is nothing, but I bet it isn't long before the players union starts crying about collusion somehow. Also there's a small amount of inflation in there I believe, so it's a little higher than that in real dollars.
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