10-06-2010, 11:20 PM
Well, I won my championship in 2011 when my team was still young and hadnt hit arbitration yet. Now that these players have hit arbitration, I cant afford to have any type of Farm system while also staying competitive. My point is, large market teams can buy FAs, keep their payroll very high, and yet still build up their farm system by putting 40 million dollars into Farm spending. Therefore, they should never have any rebuild or anything because they are able to do both at the same time. When you can only do one or the other, when your ML players get too old, you are in for a nice 5-7 year rebuild before you are relevant again because you were never able to develop any players while staying competitive.