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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
See that is where you are wrong. My desire for the Blue Jays to spend has nothing to do with last year's results. I've been make the argument for the better part of a decade. It has everything to do with the Jays being in the third largest market in baseball and having a fan base across and entire country, but running your team like a small market team (in the Stadium they were given for pennies on the dollar). This team is run in a method closer to the Tampa Bay Rays than they are a big market team which is completely absurd. The only difference is from time to time Rogers gives in to public pressures and spends for a couple of years (never enough to win it all though) and destroys the prospect pool in the process, while TB stays the course and benefits every 2 or 3 years.
I don't expect them to spend like Boston and New York, but I expect them to be consistently in the top ten, and when the opportunity presents itself, be willing to go over their BS Rogers imposed budget. .
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OK so by that standard.
Opening day roster salaries:
2015: #10
2014: #10
2013: #9
Prior to that they were much lower but the last 3 years they have been in the top 10 - which shows a consistent pattern. So what's the issue?