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Yavin4

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14. Bunk!

Reply to Auggie (Reply #12)

Sat Oct 24, 2015, 02:03 PM

Oct 2015

Cleveland has some of the best young talent in all of baseball. They should have made the playoffs this year. Oakland has been competitive, off and on, over the last 20 years. It's KC's incompetence more than payroll that's kept them out of the playoffs.

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Why this Yankees fan is rooting hard for the Royals to win the WS [View all] Yavin4 Oct 2015 OP

Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that their opponents are the Mets, KamaAina Oct 2015 #1

Obviously joeybee12 Oct 2015 #2

KC is 16 in payroll, Mets are 21 joeybee12 Oct 2015 #3

Doesn't that make them Beelzebub or something? KamaAina Oct 2015 #8

Satan West joeybee12 Oct 2015 #10

Adam's brother? KamaAina Oct 2015 #11

Small market teams can't compete with consistency. Once that developed talent reaches free agency, Auggie Oct 2015 #4

They made the WS two years in a row Yavin4 Oct 2015 #5

Your OP said "compete," not "make it to the WS." Auggie Oct 2015 #7

The Royals don't play in the same division as the Yankees. Yavin4 Oct 2015 #13

Like Zack Greinke? KamaAina Oct 2015 #9

When the Royals traded Greinke in 2010 they finished 67-95, 27 games out Auggie Oct 2015 #12

Bunk! Yavin4 Oct 2015 #14

Money enables teams to make up for incompetence. hughee99 Oct 2015 #15

Will you stop it with the rich owners propaganda Yavin4 Oct 2015 #16

All owners can make money, but a team that brings in $300 million can spend a LOT more hughee99 Oct 2015 #17

These are not some Mom and Pop organizations running on a shoestring budget Yavin4 Oct 2015 #19

What are you talking about??? hughee99 Oct 2015 #21

Over ten years (2006-2015) the Yankees have 928 wins ... Auggie Oct 2015 #18

So, a $200 million annual payroll nets out to only 108 more wins than Oakland Yavin4 Oct 2015 #20

11 more wins is the difference between going 81-81 and 92-70. (eom) StevieM Oct 2015 #22

That doesn't prove statistical significance. (eom) Yavin4 Oct 2015 #24

Over the last 10 years, only 12 teams averaged more than $100 million in payroll. hughee99 Oct 2015 #23

First, you haven't shown than a 10 win difference is statistically significant enough to support Yavin4 Oct 2015 #25

Did you say that all TEAMS should be able to run a competitive franchise over that span hughee99 Oct 2015 #27

I'm arguing both. Yavin4 Oct 2015 #28

In 1996, the year they Royals cut their payroll to $19 million, the Royals "pocketed" 4.7 million. hughee99 Oct 2015 #29

Another factor that you miss Yavin4 Oct 2015 #30

The Rays traded Price at age 29, and got Drew Smyly and Nick Franklin in return. hughee99 Oct 2015 #31

Excellent post. K&R. (eom) StevieM Oct 2015 #26

I have a soft spot for the Mets from the years I lived in New York.... marmar Oct 2015 #6