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No, you said low budget teams can't win a world series which is completely untrue. Any team that makes the playoffs can win a world series, and plenty of low budget teams make the playoffs. Once you get there it's luck, the worst of the 8 playoff teams can win the World Series. it's happened before and it'll happen again.
The A's have averaged 97 wins from 2001-2005. The Yankees, 98. The reason a lot of small market teams don't compete is because their GMs are idiots. The KC Royals had one of the worst seasons in MLB history in 2005, and what did they do? Signed the most expensive free agents they could afford; Mientkiewicz, Grudzielanek, Dessens, Mays. These guys cost millions and obviously weren't going to improve the team by more than 5 wins or so. Meanwhile, Billy Beane signs Frank Thomas, Scott Hatteberg and David Justice for next to nothing and acquires Chad Bradford, Ray Durham, and Keith Foulke for even less. Terry Ryan does the same with Shannon Stewart, Joe Nathan and Johan Santana. A shrewd GM will take you a lot farther than alot of money.
Whether people remember this in 10 years or not is irrelevant.
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