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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 16, 2019 17:22:57 GMT
Winning takes time though as it just doesn't happen overnight. The problem with the Kansas City scenario is that they win a title one year then their best players take free agency and leave so what can you do. Pay them. This is the point I'm making. Pay more than the other teams. You can afford to do it with revenue sharing and the fact that you just won a title so the fans will fill the ballpark every night. It's not like Boston is some party town that MLB players can't wait to come to. Offer players more money and they'll play for you. Plus, in spite of what the Royals claimed following the 2016 season, their ascertainable gate revenue + what they get from MLB's revenue sharing + the moneys we know they got from their regional TV deal suggests they had a net income of $130m+ after that season, after taking into account player salaries and estimated operational costs, which don't vary year over year the way other industries that rely on manufactured goods do. So them crying poverty is absolute and (mostly) verifiable bullshit. They were just cheap. Every team needs to build through the minors nowadays. This isn't the 90s when the Yankees could just trade their ugly christmas sweater collection for David Justice. Now if you're on a downturn, you trade your vets from young players, and you either develop them for roster spots or as trade pieces themselves. The whole "small market" thing is not as pronounced as it was in years past, which isn't to say it doesn't exist; it's just not as prevalent as it was in the 90s.
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