"With an opening day payroll of $105,302,124 that ranks third in the majors, the 2002 Rangers will have to win at least 79 games to avoid unseating the 2001 Red Sox as the least cost-efficient team ever," writes Ken Daley, introducing a groovy new baseball stat: team payroll divided by the number of wins that year.

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