Champs Astros hand out record playoff shares

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  • Associated Press

NEW YORK -- A afloat postseason stock for the World Series champion Houston Astros totaled a grounds $516,347 from a subordinate excavation of $107.5 million, besides a grounds successful the archetypal play the playoffs were expanded to 12 teams.

The Astros divided $38.7 cardinal into 59 afloat shares, 14.14 partial shares and $940,000 successful currency awards, the commissioner's bureau said Wednesday. The magnitude of the winner's stock topped the erstwhile people of $438,902 for Houston successful 2017, and the excavation topped past year's anterior precocious of $90.47 million.

A afloat stock for the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies came to $296,255. The Phillies divided $25.8 cardinal into 72 afloat shares, 15.03 partial shares and $20,000 successful currency awards.

Full shares for different playoff teams this twelvemonth were:

San Diego Padres, $152,709
New York Yankees, $145,820
Cleveland Guardians, $45,795
Atlanta Braves, $44,878
Seattle Mariners, $42,221
Los Angeles Dodgers, $36,148
St. Louis Cardinals, $10,351
Toronto Blue Jays, $10,007
New York Mets, $9,480
Tampa Bay Rays, $8,387

The excavation includes 60% from the archetypal first 2 games of each wild-card series, the archetypal 3 games of each part bid and the archetypal 4 games of each league title bid and the World Series.

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