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Message: [QUOTE="Chip, post: 3131890, member: 19"] Which is evidence of why payroll isn't as big a factor. The luxury tax helped even the playing field. The problem the small market teams have now is when teams like the Yankees don't go after Harper or Machado because they're getting under the biggest luxury tax thresholds. Also goes to show that the big time free agents don't necessarily make for the better team. Yankees aren't where they are today because their payroll is high. You want to say it's because of extra resources for scouting/analytics, etc., then fine. But you can't say it's the $200M payroll. $50M of that was dead weight this year (Stanton & Ellsbury). [/QUOTE]