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Originally Posted by JayP
The big issue with baseball is that you simply cannot look at payrolls and judge if a team is a small market team or not. Unlike any other North American pro sport, there is a huge difference in the amount of money put into the development systems between the top and bottom spending teams.
The big problem with JP's era is that he went for a backwards approach of dropping all his resources in the MLB club and then settling for value draft picks and refusing to pay over slot. Even though the Jays may have had a reasonably high payroll (10th-15th in the league) I guarantee their total baseball costs were nowhere near teams who had a similar pro payroll.
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Was that the famous Moneyball theory?