Jayson Stark has a column on a point I made a while back: for all the complaints about the Yankees’ budget and so on, there really is parity in baseball right now.
How many teams are truly hopeless? It’s a list that’s shorter than David Eckstein.
It could be as few as four teams. It might be as many as eight. But six is more like it. And that’s a long ways from two-thirds, in anybody’s math book.
To get a clearer picture, we did a recent scout-and-GM survey on this. Shockingly, only four teams – the Rockies, Royals, Pirates and Devil Rays – got a vote from all six of the people we polled.