danomyte

I agree that payroll can be overrated but only when a team is doing all that it can to put out the best product. Did the Twins do that this offseason? I question that...what I have never understood is how a team can cut payroll like the Twins did, have a predictably bad year, see attendance go down and then somehow seem surprised. I wonder if the Twins would have spent that extra money and remained competitive in a very, very vulnerable division if the organization would have made the money back with increased attendance, more concession sales and more paraphernalia sales. It seems highly likely to me. Of course there is no guarantee that the team would have been able to sign a couple of pitchers that would have made enough difference. Obviously they felt that they could not do so. Or, is this payroll cutting just a sign of things to come as this team is gutted? It remains to be seen but I think this season has cast a dark shadow over the prospects of the Twins being willing to make the signings necessary to compete even in this weaker division.