From: red sox 777 | Posted: 10/3/2011 2:41:45 AM | #031
i think for every single time any fan, be they mets, phillies, whomever says the yanks buy a WS...
look at the phillies this year. It's so 100% evident they're gonna win it. And ti was bought really. The dump of nearly their whole farm for halladay. their splurge on lee. another send off for oswalt. Hamels is the only home grown talent that's gonna win the post season for them, the other guys aren't factors yet.
So yeah, baseball is changing fast.
I think history shows that you can't really buy the WS, though it helps. The 1996-2000 Yankees teams were more homegrown than bought, and the salary only reached ridiculous levels when they stopped winning the WS past 2001. And the Yankees have 1 WS to show for almost a decade of 200M+ salaries since then.
You can buy your way into the playoffs, but the marginal return on each dollar spent past that becomes very thin.
well yeah homegrown talent and a farm system are extremely important but without the ability to buy a big name, or multiple big name playmakers you can't really win it outside of one or more flukes.
look at 2001 diamondbacks. without their short term pitching acquisitions they never win... it was a "win now" attitude they can't replicate now.
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