World Series 2006 – Are Your Players Earning Their Pay This Fall?

A New Way of Looking at MLB World Series Statistics

It may be right before a presentation, standing by the water cooler, or watching a commercial in between innings of the World Series, but there is bound to be talk about all those astronomical salaries that MLB players are earning, and whether these players are providing adequate bang-for-the-buck.

In fact, without considering how much these players get paid, how can we really determine who is truly the most "valuable" player of the post season? Now with Active Reports, performance and salary data for post-season players is right at your fingertips. Check out this report to find out if your favorite baseball player is a Mr. October or not.

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Everyone knows Yadier Molina. After all, he hit the game-winning home run in Game Seven of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) against the Mets. But did you know Yadier earns under 1% of the team's salary, yet he has a post-season slugging average twice that of teammate Albert Pujols (who, by the way, earns 23.55% of the team's salary)? And did you know that Yadier has driven in 23.53% of the post-season runs for the St. Louis Cardinals?*

Want to find out whose salary is 19.42% of the Detroit Tigers' post-season payroll, has the lowest batting average of all players (with a minimum of nine at bats), and has only 5% of the team's hits?*

The World Series Active Report is built using Information Builders' WebFOCUS Active Reports technology, which allows you to dynamically re-sort data, turn it into charts, apply filters, and more. Information Builders will update the data daily during the 2006 World Series.

Open our post-season and World Series Active Report to analyze the results yourself and gain insight into the World Series!

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*These stats reflect post-season play before the World Series began and may have changed since then. The Active Report is current with all post-season data, including World Series games.