Regardless of the payroll, we do not have a front office that knows how to build a winner. They can't develop position players, have had more luck with pitchers. They don't know how to allocate the resources given to them efficiently, they paid Gallo $11m when no one else was offering him anything near that.
Yes the Pohlads deserve everything coming to them but the biggest failing is not hiring a front office that is in alignment with their goals and build a team within the parameters given. This is what other teams do like Milwaukee and Cleveland. Hire someone with baseball experience that knows how to do develop a plan of what the roster should look like and develop the players accordingly and then hire a new manager.