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Bomber1 wrote: ↑29 Sep 2025 21:26 pm

Cranny wrote: ↑29 Sep 2025 21:02 pm

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Cranny wrote: ↑29 Sep 2025 19:46 pm

Goldfan wrote: ↑29 Sep 2025 19:43 pm

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Cranny wrote: ↑29 Sep 2025 19:01 pm

Goldfan wrote: ↑29 Sep 2025 18:41 pm

Cranny wrote: ↑29 Sep 2025 18:33 pm

Goldfan wrote: ↑29 Sep 2025 18:29 pm

Cranny, was the Yankees payroll in the ‘20’s the same as the Browns?

The spread over the years has widened.

The teams didn’t make payroll public like they do today….but from the 20’s-60’s there was a 2-3x difference from bottom to top and that was only 16 teams
So it’s not much different today perhaps a bit more extended at the very top.

Dodgers payroll in 2025 - $350 million
Miami payroll in 2025 - $69 million

The 10 ten payrolls account for about 2.5 billion

The bottom 20 payrolls around 2.5 billion

So 5 billion split among 30 teams = 170 million per team

Easily attainable with revenue sharing - it’s the NFL model

But the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs don’t want to split the pie and the MLBPA doesn’t want a cap

The Mets debunked the “Big Boys Spend TOO Much for anyone else to compete” narrative…….See Reds

Actually, the Brewers and Guardians did

Exactly……Cranny’s great Canard is full of holes every year.
A competent Baseball eye and practitioner would have used the 180mil payroll to dominate the NL Central and possibly win another WS since ‘11
But Mo was a failure and BDW just let him burn the city to the ground….not sure who is worse

It was a perfect storm that no one could predict.
I know it and you know it.

That is a complete crock of [shirt] Cranny.
I know it and you know it.

Well, Bomber, I’m sure glad you could predict Goldy and Arenado going backward so quickly, Gorman and Walker sliding badly, and those pitchers we got at the deadline all going down with arm problems. You’re an absolute savant.

Mozeliak is a moron and had made one bad deal after another - trades, FA signings, stupid extensions - for years.
Gorman and Walker are just 2 of the latest examples of Mozeliak’s buffoonery - first round failures.
You act like this all began in 2023.
It didn’t.

“Perfect storm”.

More like the culmination of 8 years of Mozeliak doing things his way.