November 26, 2007
Fenway Hurts Series Shares
World Series shares were down this year due to the low capacity of Fenway Park:
Boston's split of the postseason players' pool was $18.89 million, down from the $20.02 million the Cardinals shared when they won the title. The Red Sox voted 47 full shares, 14 partial shares and 11 cash awards.
NL champion Colorado, swept by the Red Sox, voted 44 full shares of $233,505, five partial shares and 45 cash awards. Mandy Coolbaugh, the widow of Rockies minor league coach Mike Coolbaugh, was voted a full share. Mike Coolbaugh was killed when struck by a foul ball during a game in July.
Last year, a full share on the Detroit Tigers was worth $291,668 after they lost to the Cardinals in the Series.
You can also see the difference in the money LCS losers Arizona and Cleveland took home:
Full shares for the league championship series losers came to $139,460 for the Arizona Diamondbacks and $107,458 for the Cleveland Indians.
Update: See the comments to this post. The difference in the share value for the Indians and Diamondbacks was the number of shares each teams awarded.
The Diamondbacks and Indians were both awarded the exact same pool ($6,295,126.95). The reason you see a difference in the shares is because the Diamondbacks only awarded 33 full shares and 12.14 partial shares to the Indians' 50 full shares, 7.475 partial shares and 11 cash awards.
Too bad they couldn't utilize Braves Field as they did in their prior window of being the pride of the AL.
