League Updates Speculations

The Zen of Salary Cap Forecasting

Fangraphs is estimating that MLB Opening Day salaries will go up by 6.5% over last year.  If that holds (this was calculated before Yoan Moncada signed, for example) and if it were to translate straight across to the EFL (which it won’t, but we won’t know in which direction we’ll vary until we get the actual team-by-team salaries), we should see an increase in the $5,000,000-range over last year’s opening day figure. That would put our Opening Day salaries a little north of $87,000,000, ranked among the MLB teams somewhere between Arizona and Colorado (if that’s even possible).

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