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Originally Posted by Isryion
Perhaps your assumption that it was a blind assumption was actually blind?  |
If you really want to get into an analysis of league financials, the reports will be updated in a few days to reflect the free agency period which is just ending. I can tell you teams have dropped a lot of cash on a lot of lawnmowers.
Also worth noting that the 4 lowest payroll teams were all AI controlled for the majority of the season. A couple of them have taken on human owners recently, and immediately became the bigest spenders off the offseason. Miami alone added $93 million in annual salaries, to move from last place to 3rd place in payroll in one offseason.
And the 5th lowest payroll team, the lowest payroll run by a real human - which happens to be me - had a $150 million payroll 3 seasons ago. So it's all part of the ebb and flow.
All that being said... after all that spending... even though the league is about to start spring training... there are still a handful of Nick Punto's left over who insist on asking for Pujols level money. So something still seems off.