DENVER — The Colorado Rockies may have finished the baseball season with a losing record, but the team is decidedly middle of the pack when it comes to how much it spends to get each win.
The club had the 13th-highest cost per win among the 30 teams in Major League Baseball's just-completed regular season, according to data gathered by the Pittsburgh Business Times, a sister paper to the Denver Business Journal.
The Rockies dished out $147.35 million in payroll costs to clinch 61 victories, averaging $2.39 million per victory this season. The club's spending put it in third among teams in the National League West and in the middle of the MLB.
In the NL West, the San Francisco Giants doled out the most money per win, spending $206.67 million on total payroll and averaging about $2.58 million for 80 wins. At the low end, the San Diego Padres, earning 95 wins, paid approximately $1.8 million per win.
