Raising Matt Cain expresses happiness at the Giants are paying the competitive balance tax:
Big payroll, big expectations, wouldn’t you say?
Indeed. If you are paying the competitive balance tax, your team should be good enough to be competitive. Right now, the Yankees, Tigers, and Giants don’t really fit the bill. In the case of the Yankees and Tigers, spending big on players to win now sometimes leaves you holding the bag as those players decline. I’ve heard more than one Yankees fan wish that the boss was still in charge of the Yankees, as he would not have let the team slide this much. He would keep spending to keep winning.
The Yankees tax is equivalent to the salary of a three or four WAR player. That might have been enough to have put them in the playoffs in 2016.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2i2VJcy
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