Why should the Sox spend over $185, let alone $200 million, when you just have to look at the Mets, Padres, Phillies, Angels, Cardinals, Red Sox, Mariners and Blue Jays to see where that spending has gotten them collectively? 

(Unless you are the Dodgers, Braves and Yankees, that is. Houston, to a lesser extent, as they are once again a mid tier payroll.) 

There's only ONE team, the Rangers,  and that's mostly without deGrom... who have pretty much spent their way into playoff position as of today. 

 

Out of 12 current teams positioned for playoff spots..SEVEN are in the bottom half of MLB payrolls. 

In fact, six are in the Bottom 10, with Minnesota the only team in the 16-20 range.

Those six teams would be Miami AZ Milwaukee Pittsburgh Baltimore and TB. 

 

Great for baseball, overall...not so much for the future of the Sox, since they have proven incapable of running a mid tier payroll and successfully competing for much of the last decade...and now it's quite obvious there will be even less pressure to spend, if that's possible. 

Edited May 21, 20232 yr by caulfield12

“With the 40-game quarter pole having just been passed, we are starting to get a good idea as to where this baseball season is headed.

Things are suddenly looking up in New York for Yankees and Mets. The Rays are good but maybe not as good as they’ve seemed. The rise of the Rangers in Texas looks real, the Padre malaise in San Diego is mystifying, and the balanced schedule has exposed the great divide between the good teams and the really bad ones in places like Oakland, Washington, Kansas City, Detroit, Colorado and Cincinnati.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/bill-madden-yankees-offense-still-100000471.html

 

Interesting the White Sox weren’t included along with those six other teams…Detroit is getting closer to .500 by the week.

Jerry provides the budget. Hahn has had more than enough money the past three seasons to execute a solid plan and acquire legitimate starters at 2B and RF. He has failed at his task.

Jerry opened up his coin purse larger than expected to support his BFF manager the past two seasons. The purse is now closed. Expect payroll to drop further the next two seasons, perhaps under $100M with Hahn rebuild 2.0, unless there is a miraculous on field turn around and Sox are solid playoff contenders the next two years to avoid a substantial sell off.

The money has been spent, poorly.