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Originally Posted by bootsy
And that is a myth because they really only bought 1 and that was in 09. All the others in the late 90s/2000 were a combo of home grown talent and a bunch of veteran players they already had before they started winning, traded for during the offseason or during the season.
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Ya, there seems to be an inverse coorelation between the Yankees payroll and championships. The more they spend the less often they seem to win titles.
Here's the 1998 MLB top payrolls. This was the year the Yankees won 114 games with one of their greatest teams ever. They still spent more than most teams but the gap was relatively small. The gap between the Yankees payroll and everyone else didn't begin to soar till around 2003, peaked a couple years ago and has somewhat narrowed since.
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RANK TEAM
1 Baltimore Orioles $74,170,921
2 New York Yankees $73,963,698
3 Texas Rangers $62,755,368
4 Atlanta Braves $61,840,254
5 Los Angeles Dodgers $60,731,667
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