Any Hope for Small Market Baseball Teams?

PeteSB75 · 11-09-2009, 12:40 PM

Honestly, all the salary cap really does is expose those teams with bad upper management.

Take the Yankees since Steinbrenner bought the team. Always been big spenders, but not always winners. He had some initial success, building on the core of players there when he bought the team, but then years of futility, until he got himself a real management team and the Yankees had a very good run in the 90s. Some hiccups in the 00, but they've been in the playoffs all but one year. I would consider that a successful franchise.

Similar story with the Red Sox. After John Henry bought the team in 2002, the farm system was substantially revived, and the team started making much better decisions, substantially improving the outlook of the team. Again, since 2002, they missed the playoffs only one year. It's also arguable whether the Red Sox are a large-market team, with Boston proper having just over 600k people.

So, I guess my point is that money helps, but there is no substitute for good organization management.

11-09-2009, 12:40 PM	#19
PeteSB75 Have My Own Room Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Pete Location: CT Posts: 1,674 Trading: (18)	Re: Any Hope for Small Market Baseball Teams? Honestly, all the salary cap really does is expose those teams with bad upper management. Take the Yankees since Steinbrenner bought the team. Always been big spenders, but not always winners. He had some initial success, building on the core of players there when he bought the team, but then years of futility, until he got himself a real management team and the Yankees had a very good run in the 90s. Some hiccups in the 00, but they've been in the playoffs all but one year. I would consider that a successful franchise. Similar story with the Red Sox. After John Henry bought the team in 2002, the farm system was substantially revived, and the team started making much better decisions, substantially improving the outlook of the team. Again, since 2002, they missed the playoffs only one year. It's also arguable whether the Red Sox are a large-market team, with Boston proper having just over 600k people. So, I guess my point is that money helps, but there is no substitute for good organization management. __________________ Formerly Malik23