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Originally Posted by Ilow
The Red Sox are a big market team, period. Not like the Yankees. First as i said, it is a matter of organizational philosophy, the yankees just buy already developed talent for the most part.
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This is total bullshit. Don't try to spin the Red Sox as some team that tries to use their farm system as the base of new talent for the organization. They aren't. They sign free agents at the same rate that the Yankees do. Actually, the Yankees have more than twice as many homegrown players on their team:
The Red Sox have 4 players on their active roster that developed in their farm system: Papelbon, Veritek, Pedoria, and Youkilis.
The Yankees have 10: Clippard, Pettitte, Proctor, Wang, Rivera, Posada, Cano, Jeter, Cabrerra, and Thompson
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Second it's a matter of scale. The Yankers payroll is over 205 million, without Clemens etc., that is over 85 million more than the Red Sox, sure the Sox are number two, by a fair margin, but they are much closer to the rest of the field (the other 8 of the top 10 teams are all over 85 mil.) Seriously, only a few teams (like maybe 4) have payrolls much over the DIFFERENCE between the Yankers and Red Sox!
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The correct opening day payrolls are $189.6 for the Yankees and $143 for the Red Sox. Add in the posting fees paid ($26 for Igawa and $51 for Matsuzaka), and they are $215.6 and $194. The difference is not as much as you'd like to think it is and really, once you are at the point at which both of your payrolls exceed the combined payrolls of the bottom 5 teams in baseball it's really a pot and kettle argument.