ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER. In Major League Baseball, money may not buy you love, but it appears to buy you victory.

Attributed to New York Times

As Angus of Kids Prefer Cheese explains,

Biggest overachievers are Oakland and Minnesota, biggest underachiever (in terms of vertical distance from the regression line is Baltimore.

My two teams are the Tigers and the Cardinals. Pretty big difference in bang for buck between them. Cards are spending just north of $100 million for just north of 90 wins while Tigers are just south of $100 million for just south of 75 wins.

Mets and Cubs are the worst performing big spenders.

The Brewers underachieve slightly.

On the other hand, in the public schools, money appears to have no effect.

Cato Institute chart by Andrew J. Coulson.

Cato's Neal McCluskey argues that the extra money has achieved precisely ... nothing. Hypothesis: integration and inclusion and mainstreaming are expensive, but not this expensive.