well to be fair, the expos, or current nationals are pretty horrid, and if you can trade a bad team for a team with a chance to win than I would do that...but tex left a playoff team, sabathia left a team that had a chance to win in the indians, burnett probably made a good move, I dont think toronto could win with that division...
but seriously the dodgers won in 88 mostly with homegrown talent, same with the angels in 2002, I think the phillies were not even favored over the mets, but they cultivated guys like howard, rollins and hamels...I believe more teams win the world series with a strong farm system, rather than dropping big contracts on star players...And if you play for a team that wont pay like florida, then yeah take the money and run
but even vladdy does not make anything like what aroid took to come to new york and abandon a mariners team that was really good and a contender at the time, griffey wanted to go home to cincy, but seattle was really good before randy johnson, griffey and arod left
gotta do what you gotta do...i just hate that some teams can buy wins like the yankees, and others like the pirates, and royals, and marlins tend to to have multiple seasons in a row with no chance of even gettin to the playoffs...I prefer salary caps, just to keep the playing field more balanced, and if the league is profitable then just keep raising the cap, to give the players their fair share of the profits....so the ownership, the city, and the players and fans can see a competitive team with a chance to win their division at least, if not the world series....the nba and nfl are very good about that, I think even hockey has a cap...
but soccer has that problem too, certain teams can spend more, and attract teams of all stars like manchester united, barcelona, ac milan... and then everyone else for the most part...if you like dynastys then fine, no cap, but if you like your home team to have some hope of winning a title than salary cap for sure, so at least all gms and coaches are playing with the same lego set, when they build their franchise
right now two thirds of baseball is building with hay, and wood, while the top teams: angels, red sox, yankees are building with bricks every year
and once in a blue moon the marlins, phillies or rays build a contender, but can they maintain that, is the question
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