which combination of teams would be better?

[Blackout]

team A: The Floridans

C-Dioner Navarro
1B-Carlos Pena
2B-BJ Upton
SS-Hanley Ramirez
3B-Evan Longoria
OF-Carl Crawford
OF-Josh Willingham
OF-Jeremy Hermedia
DH-Dan Uggla

bench: Mike Jacobs, Akinuri Iwamura, Cliff Floyd, Mike Rebelo, Jorge Cantu

SP James Sheilds
SP Scott Kazmir
SP Scott Olsen
SP Edwin Jackson
SP Matt Garza

RP Renyel Pinto
RP Kevin Greg
RP Justin Miller
RP Danny Wheeler
RP JP Howell
CL Troy Percivil.



Tema B: The High Payrollians

C-Jorge Posada
1B-Kevin Youkilis
2B-Robinson Cano
SS-Derek Jeter
3B-Alex Rodriguez
LF-Manny Ramirez
CF-Jacoby Ellsbury
RF-Hideku Matsui
DH-Big Papi

bench: Jason Varitek, Dustin Pedroia, Bobby Abreu, Johnny Damon, Mike Lowell

SP Josh Beckett
SP Chein Mein Wang
SP DiceK Matsuzaka
SP Andy Pettite
SP Mike Mussina

RP Javier Lopez
RP Brian Bruney
RP Hideki Okajima
RP Jon Papelbon
RP Joba Chamberlain
CL Mariano Rivera

[NYMets523]

Why are the "High Payrollians" just the Yankees and Red Sox? Shouldn't it be the highest paid players?

[Utility07]

If you made one of the chicagoans, they would crush both teams.

[steve rogers]

Team B would win now but team A would win in 10 years when most of team B is over 40 or even 50.

Scott

[NickU]

Scott Olsen is about the fall off, take a look at his BABIP

[Colorado Express]

Team B wins 7 or 8 out of 10 games.

[Blackout]

Scott Olsen is about the fall off, take a look at his BABIP

eh hes still decent

[YOUgodofwalks]

Team B: The High Payrollians

C-Jorge Posada
1B-Kevin Youkilis
2B-Robinson Cano
SS-Derek Jeter
3B-Alex Rodriguez
LF-Manny Ramirez
CF-Jacoby Ellsbury
RF-Hideku Matsui
DH-Big Papi

I do get what your trying to say by this but some things need to be pointed out. Youkilis is getting $3 million this year after $424,500 last year. Ellsbury is making $406,000. And Javier Lopez is making $840,000.

But, more importantly than all of that, the Red Sox have the 4th highest payroll in baseball this year, the list is Yankees, Mets, Tigers then Red Sox. A title like "the rivals" would be much more accurate.