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Good for Cincy’s fans, we could argue that they could’ve spend that money differently, but no arguing that they spent it. $100-$120 million payroll for a MLB franchise should be the floor. The addition that the Royals and Tigers have made would have been welcome by me and most. The fact that our favorite team refuses to spend that money is my biggest frustration.

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The beauty of baseball is that a club like the Reds is gonna spend $40m more than the Buccos and it'll increase their chances of success...by a couple percentage points.

The Pirates could of course apply the same logic and put themselves within a few percentage points of even the highest-spending markets by investing even a modest amount in the club, but they instead choose to cry unfair and use that to justify spending nothing.

The additional utility of another $50m when you are already fielding a well-built ~$125m roster almost completely gets eaten up by the inherent randomness of the game. Sure, you want to use the bullets you have, but that should not generate some existential crisis of "unfairness". Such a claim fundamentally misunderstands the game we love.

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