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Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball
From what was being said in the complaints, the Marlins owner figured out what was the bare minimum (roughly 16-30 million per year) to pay in salary to get the maximum amount of revenue sharing possible from other teams. Then pocketed the majority of the money and only gave a token boost in team salary so to not look like a cheap-ass.
It just ended up being a "fluke" they managed to have decent seasons 2 out of the last 4 years when other teams in tougher divisions or in similar money range were absolute horrible (ex. Pirates, Rays until 2 years ago)
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To be fair, the only reason I've heard for the Pirates not getting a "talking to" was that they spent a bunch of money on some developmental facility in the Dominican or somewhere down there.