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Originally Posted by Balticfox
Huh!? Since when is building a team the old fashioned way (as it was done in generations past) instead of splurging unfortunate for the game?
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Take the Pirates. From a USA Today article: "The Pittsburgh Pirates, according to information received by the players union and confirmed by several owners, are one of the most profitable teams in all of baseball, stashing a huge chunk of their revenue sharing monies instead of investing in their team year after year."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...s/83556338007/
The Pirates' owner treats the team as a cash cow. Result: the Pirates have a 29-45 record and all of their stars like Skenes and Oneil Cruz will leave when they can because the Pirates will refuse to spend the money necessary to keep them.
How must that feel as a Pirate fan, for your owner to care only about making a profit and not about having a winning team? How is that not unfortunate for baseball?
"Building a team the old fashioned way" implies these cheap teams are trying to build a winning team. They're not.