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Baseball is more unfair than other sports due to extreme franchise valuation disparities.
Their wordsYou will notice right away that the structure is so much more extreme than any other sport. The top franchise in baseball is worth 381% - essentially four times more - than the median. And the least valuable franchise is worth 57% (a little more than half) of the median. This is why baseball feels unfair. Because baseball IS unfair.
Their wordsFor another, I believe that baseball - like soccer - offers teams with less talent a better opportunity to win on any given day than the other American team sports.
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