(6) Superteams: Does Baseball Have a Parity Problem?

Episode 6 of the The Baseball Rabbi Podcast podcast, hosted by Pesach Wolicki and Scott Kahn, titled "(6) Superteams: Does Baseball Have a Parity Problem?" was published on August 9, 2018 and runs 39 minutes.

August 9, 2018 ·39m · The Baseball Rabbi Podcast

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For the second straight year, it looks as though three Major League teams may win 100 games - something that has happened in consecutive years only once before. The conventional wisdom is that we're in an era of superteams, and that this might be a long-term problem for baseball. But does baseball actually have a parity problem? Pesach Wolicki and Scott Kahn compare MLB with the other major North American professional sports leagues to see which has the most parity, and to determine once and for all if there's a need to address this pressing issue - or whether things are actually fine the way they are.

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