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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5430371, member: 722"]
They paid their homegrown talent more money than anybody else could, and also had a parade of high priced free agents to supplement that core. Or don’t you remember A Rod signing a record contract, which led directly to their last championship, in 2009? 3 of the top 10 earners in baseball history were on those late 90’s early 2000’s Yankees teams. At the same time.

Once the luxury tax/salary cap situation in MLB had real consequences, they came  back to the pack, and smarter organizations started winning more. Each successive collective bargaining after that had additional consequences (not purely money related) that forced the Yankees to be a little closer to the average in baseball in total player salaries after that time.

Now, with the Mets and Dodgers finding deferred contracts help reduce the damage from violating that luxury tax, you can expect the Yankees to buy huge player salaries again. As it is, Judge and Cole are both paid the top10 in baseball this season. The Dodgers and Angels are the other teams with two players in that list.
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