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Originally Posted by Roughneck
Might have been heavy on the analytics, but I don’t think a top 5 payroll team can be considered playing ‘moneyball’.
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Moneyball the way the A's did it was never going to be sustainable long term. Once the money flowed in with the analytics used the A's were going to go back to being at a financial disadvantage.
This and getting PED's out of baseball were really what broke the late 90's Yankee's paying top dollar for older players.
Someday NHL GM's will learn that paying top dollar for aging talent on long contracts is a losing proposition. Hopefully Conroy figures it out first.