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Originally Posted by moon
It isn't BS at all. As mentioned the Twins, Cardinals and Marlins are three teams that have done a good job of staying competitive without top 10 payrolls.
Yes teams are at a disadvantage but the only BS is that they can't compete because of that disadvantage as teams have shown that with good management you can.
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Sure, if by competitive you mean "playoff fodder for the big spenders." The Twins get in and then routinely get squashed by the Yankees or Angels. The Cards do have a World Series but have usually been trounced in the first or second rounds of the playoffs. And the Marlins have two World Series that are then followed up by years of dismal play as they lose all of their key players to free agency.
The list goes on in the same pattern with the Rockies, Giants, Dbacks, and Brewers. They're good enough to just be competitive with the big teams, but only in rare cases are they good enough to beat them.