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<blockquote data-quote="the juiceman cometh" data-source="post: 1802855" data-attributes="member: 747321"><p>And the Philles are #4 at around $242 million. Per Fangraphs our final total came in at around $163 million. The Cardinals had the lowest payroll of any team to make the playoffs from the NL, by a good $20-30 million. That's an ace pitcher or superstar bat right there. This is why the club needs to invest more if the goal is the WS.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ironically DeWitt would probably be against that. If a cap were to be implemented at this point it'd probably have to be phased in in such a way as to allow the big spenders to have a chance to get under it and the final number would have to be somewhat realistic. You need buy-in from the players' union too. Honestly hard to see any number lower than $225 million or so getting that and I think that'd force DeWitt to spend more. You never see teams spend significantly less than the cap in other sports - everyone gets close to the cap (in the NFL the Browns are $34 million under the cap but every other team is around $10 million or less under and half the league has less than $5 million in cap space). Even if the cap were set at $200 million, which would never happen, then you'd see tons of pressure on DeWitt to spend more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the juiceman cometh, post: 1802855, member: 747321"] And the Philles are #4 at around $242 million. Per Fangraphs our final total came in at around $163 million. The Cardinals had the lowest payroll of any team to make the playoffs from the NL, by a good $20-30 million. That's an ace pitcher or superstar bat right there. This is why the club needs to invest more if the goal is the WS. Ironically DeWitt would probably be against that. If a cap were to be implemented at this point it'd probably have to be phased in in such a way as to allow the big spenders to have a chance to get under it and the final number would have to be somewhat realistic. You need buy-in from the players' union too. Honestly hard to see any number lower than $225 million or so getting that and I think that'd force DeWitt to spend more. You never see teams spend significantly less than the cap in other sports - everyone gets close to the cap (in the NFL the Browns are $34 million under the cap but every other team is around $10 million or less under and half the league has less than $5 million in cap space). Even if the cap were set at $200 million, which would never happen, then you'd see tons of pressure on DeWitt to spend more. [/QUOTE]
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