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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle

What teams make it worse routinely with less? The model franchises for yearly success are San Francisco, Boston, Yankees, St. Louis, Dodgers, Anaheim, Washington, and Detroit. All of these teams accept for St. Louis have significantly higher payrolls than the Blue Jays. St. Louis spends about the same as Toronto, but doesn't play in a the AL East where the majority of the mega spenders reside.


You can throw up Kansas and the Mets, but they are not routinely successful and they are full of players on their rookie deals. These are going to be 200M payroll teams when their entry level deals expire . Christ the Mets are going to have to dump 100M on pitching alone in the near future if they wish to keep it together. We'll see if Kansas keeps its team together. My guess is they won't as deals start to expire. They have budgetary constraints much like the Jays, but they are a small market team with probably 3/4 less of a fan base than the Jays have.

Are people still using this BS excuse?