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Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry
Cardinals are no different than the Royals. You just need to draft and develop your own players no matter where you draft. MLB draft is the biggest crapshoot in sports. And you need to keep close to a .500 team for revenue purposes. Attendance matters in baseball more than NFL and NBA when it comes to payroll.
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While I've heard this from a lot of Cardinals fans, and while they can develop pitchers much better and more consistently than the Royals, their payroll has fluctuated between #8 and #14 over the last ten years (with many of those years in the top 10)- the Cardinals lowest spending year was
still higher than what the Royals have ever spent in their payroll a season (in terms of rankings) - that's a pretty considerable difference.
I will concede the Cardinals development is definitely better, but their financial flexibility can't be discounted when compared to the Royals system.