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Originally Posted by Chiefspants
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 - 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.
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The Royals had an opening day payroll of $140 million last year, which is higher than any year the Cardinals have had, save for 2017 and 2018. Are you referring to ranks?
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