Sentence examples for competitive payroll from inspiring English sources

But the Marlins, unlike the Red Sox, have never demonstrated a consistent ability to maintain a competitive payroll, a cycle that was supposed to end with their new ballpark.

The players association will approach Major League Baseball this week to reopen negotiations on playing 22 Expos home games in 2004 outside Montreal; the purpose will be to gain assurance of a competitive payroll, a person involved in the talks said yesterday.

The White Sox are also consistently competitive, with payrolls regularly near the top of the league.

This year's World Series champions, the Anaheim Angels, ranked 15th in competitive balance tax payrolls at $77.2 million.

But teams like the Oakland A's have been competitive despite small payrolls, and teams like the Atlanta Braves have been even more successful through inventive television deals and superior front-office and on-the-field management.

The others are revenue sharing and a payroll, or competitive balance, tax.

Seeking to correct a mushrooming competitive imbalance because of payroll disparity, baseball's latest economic study committee presented a plan yesterday that would seem to take from the rich and give not to the poor but to the middle class.

The players believe the combined amount that clubs will have to pay in revenue sharing and the payroll, or competitive balance, tax will deter the free-spending clubs from continuing to spend freely.

Still, said Jonah Keri, the author of "The Extra 2%," a book about how the Tampa Bay Rays have utilized Wall Street strategies in remaining competitive with a restricted payroll, "you can love the aesthetic of the game, but if you say sabermetrics are useless and they ruin baseball, then you're doing a disservice to your viewers".

Selig and the clubs have cited the disparity between teams' payrolls and competitive imbalance as serious problems.

Payrolls for competitive balance tax purposes cover each team's 40-man roster, are based on the average annual value of each contract and include $7.7 million in benefit costs.