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This just in! Albert Pujols signs with Anaheim Angels
TraceOneInfinite:
You guys are speaking of anomolies and isolated cases where a small market team outperformed a bigger market; or where a high-paid player didn't live up to his potential.
But statistically one of the radio personalities here in Kansas City broke it down. And if you just go back the numbers and look at the teams that have made the playoffs and won the world series over the past 14 years you will find undoubtedly that the large majority of those teams were from the upper third of payrolls in the league. Besides, it's just common sense.
MistaNova:
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click; #TeamBox on December 09, 2011, 10:03:11 PM ---Baseball comes down to pitching in the end. If you get some great young pitching talent (like the Giants), you can win.
The Yankees & Redsox have the best lineups money can buy & although they've had their shares of World Series wins this last decade, small market teams have gotten & won it all.
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True, that's how the Giants shut down the Rangers in '10. But a pitcher can't win if their team doesn't offer any run support, the Angels had Weaver, Santana & Haren and they still lost because who aren't named Trumbo or Hunter couldn't hit. If you needed a young and good pitching staff to go to the top the Yankees, Red Sox and Rangers would've failed countless times...
13th Duke:
To be fair, not many sports the world over have salary caps like NFL or NBA do, Baseball is doing no different to any other sport. In every sport there will always be bigger teams who offer bigger money. It doesn't make it uncompetitive.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: 13th Duke on December 10, 2011, 06:29:44 AM ---To be fair, not many sports the world over have salary caps like NFL or NBA do, Baseball is doing no different to any other sport. In every sport there will always be bigger teams who offer bigger money. It doesn't make it uncompetitive.
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Whatever makes you guys feel better, stay in denial that it's not an unfair advantage. But the statistics don't lie. Just look at the playoff teams of the last 15 years
Chamillitary Click:
--- Quote from: Infinite- African West Coastin' 2010 on December 10, 2011, 10:19:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: 13th Duke on December 10, 2011, 06:29:44 AM ---To be fair, not many sports the world over have salary caps like NFL or NBA do, Baseball is doing no different to any other sport. In every sport there will always be bigger teams who offer bigger money. It doesn't make it uncompetitive.
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Whatever makes you guys feel better, stay in denial that it's not an unfair advantage. But the statistics don't lie. Just look at the playoff teams of the last 15 years
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Yeah, statistics don't lie, dumbass. Spend some money. http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm
You spend $5,805,771 less than the Rays who spend the second least in the league. But regardless, they've managed to win the division in 2008 & 2010 over the Yankees & Redsox, the two top spending teams in baseball & made it to a WS. Stop bitching & make moves.
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