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Originally Posted by tk13
Yeah, but there's this fallacy that spending more money = wins. That's simply not true. Everybody always says if he'd just spend more money it would take care of itself. He did that, and it didn't. You have the spend the money intelligently. He did bump up the payroll with guys like Meche and Guillen and whatnot and didn't make a difference. The team spent 75-80+ million in payroll and was still losing 90 a year. Numerous playoff teams spent less.
And to be fair, the payroll would've been even higher if they'd been able to sign Torii Hunter, Kuroda, and Orlando Hudson. But that's an entirely different issue... getting guys to agree to sign in Kansas City.
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You have to have a young player base to win with a 90 million payroll. You can't just spend 90 mill and be competitive. We have the young player base now. Now we need to bump the payroll to fill a couple of gaps on the team. It's really not that difficult of a concept to grasp.