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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Rogers get a lot of ####, and probably should reinvest more in the team, but really they spend up there with pretty much any other team not named Boston, New York, or Los Angeles.
Going back to 2013 they have been around 10th in league payroll spending around $130 million.
Also hard for them to just bury money into the baseball team when it is counted as part of their media business and they have shareholders to answer to. I would love for them to go spend $200 million per year on player salaries but really it just isn't realistic.
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SuperMatt18, I think you misinterpreted the discussion in this thread. I don't think anybody in here doesn't understand how Rogers operates, it's been part of the discussion all along in here.
You just laid out what Rogers does that pisses off the fan base and stops us from being a championship team as if we just don't understand, so now that you've explained it we shouldn't be frustrated anymore. Trust me, everyone gets it, and it's why we're frustrated.
Yes they're a corporation and answer to shareholders and are content with a competitive team that's kind of in the picture, but not really, and no fan should be happy about that. Why would any passionate fan of the team go "Haha, no worries, I get how they operate, so it's okay"?.
Alpine nailed it. As an organization you can be thrifty, you can hold back from matching the Red Sox and Yankees in payroll and watch them sign strong free agents to make them contenders. That's fine, that's their choice, but then what's the point of giving up draft picks and prospects and semi building a contender and then stopping before you get there?
We were getting really close this offseason then they clearly decided to sign a 4th and 5th starter at prices that suggest management went "Well, we're not going to spend and be a contender, so let's toss our remaining budget at a couple strong bottom order pitchers and we should be a fairly solid team".
Then our rivals in the division do their thing, including signing an Ace that by all reports wanted to play in Toronto, and we have what we have - Likely the third best team in our division, so we'll probably be battling for a wildcard spot and there'll be a lot of competition.