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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
For what it's worth, here's how the last four real-life expansion teams fared in terms of opening day payroll in their inaugural season as compared to the major league average opening day payroll in that same year.
Major League average (1993): $30,603,088
Colorado Rockies (1993): $8,854,000 (28.9%)
Florida Marlins (1993): $18,297,546 (59.8%)
Major League average (1998): $40,359,381
Arizona Diamondbacks (1998): $30,571,500 (75.7%)
Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1998): $25,317,500 (62.7%)
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Thanks for the data. I didn't know the precise numbers, but I knew that RL expansion teams have never taken the type of plunge that Dallas and Jacksonville did in my league.
Again, I don't know if this type of expansion team spending in OOTP is an aberration or somewhat common. This is my first experience with it. Going into the 2019 season, as the two expansion teams were close to $300 M, each, in payroll, there was only one other team with a payroll over $100 M.
Both team's owners have kicked in money to cover the shortfalls and given each the opportunity to sign some (not all, Cravath has gone elsewhere) players to extensions and to sign some Free Agents.
Oh, and Dallas and Jacksonville got the first two picks in the 2019 Amateur Draft. Holy moly.