I'm not going to bother my putting comments in the Fangraphs comments I'm not even going to place a vote because, well, I can't separate my fandom from my opinion. In my opinion, the writer missed a large check mark in the "good" column.... is it good for baseball for there to be such a large disparity in the payrolls across baseball? I think most would say that it's not. You can't allow for such a large disparity while also not rooting for the underdogs to succeed, given that, based solely on payroll, about 20 teams are "underdogs" before we even start playing games. If having underdog (read: low payroll) teams win sometimes, or even often, may dissuade the largest markets from spending money that they have every right to spend, but sometimes gets a little silly.