Well as we rumble into the final month of the MLB regular season with many a team fighting for a spot in the playoffs, there are alot of busts and alot of suprise helpers. We have over 10 teams that still have October in their sights. But what did it take to get there, and how much did they spend to get it. So today, I'll examine some big-name stars, some that can be called overpaid.

Now let's take Roger Clemens. He was one of the biggest stories this offseason and during the Yankees usual 2 month slump to start the season. There were questions surrounding him, mainly, how much did he deserve to make. The Yankees, who usually spend money blindly, decided he needed 18 million dollars to fit his talent level. Well, now the Rocket it 6-6 and is looking like what he is, a heavy, 45 year old man trying to play a younger man's sport. So if we can determine how good he really is, then we can see the real value of other players by Yankee Standards. Now, if we use a system devised by my boys down at the office, thanks guys, I'll tell you how much Jake Peavy would be worth if he went to the Evil Empire.

Now wins and losses don't hold much, if any weight in this formula. It focuses on K-BB ratio, WHIP, and homeruns per- innings pitced. One of the simplest versions of this formula is the points system, so I'll be using that. For K-BB ratio, pitchers within the 1-2 K range get 10 points, 2-3 get 20, and 3-4 get 30. Clemens has a 2.2 K-BB ratio so he gets 20 points. Peavy, on the other hand, has a 3.7 K-BB ratio so he gets 30 points. For WHIP, pitchers start at 50 points and for every tenth of a point after the starting whole number of 1 lose 10 points. Peavy has a 1.03 WHIP so he comes out with 46 points there while Clemense, who has a 1.34 WHIP comes out with 27 points. As of now Peavy leads Clemens 70 points to 47 points. For homeruns-innings pitches, for every inning pitched without a homerun, the pitcher gets a point. Clemens has a 10.7 innings pitched ratio for 11 points and Peavy has a 26 innings pitched ratio for 26 points. So at the end of it all, Peavy wins 96 to 58.  

Now we divide Clemens salary by his number of points, 58, and we get 310,334 dollars per every points, compared to just 49, 479 for Peavy. Then we multiply the per-point amount for Clemens by Peavy's point total, 96, and we get 29,793,024, the amount of money Peavy would be mathematicly values at if he were signed by the Yankees.

Now this would never happen, but who knows? It's the Yankees.