king the playoffs, without having to have a huge payroll.
             In major league baseball today, the current problem is the dominance, which teams that have the largest payrolls have over those who do not. In 1999, "the eight teams that made the playoffs: the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks and Houston Astros all ranked in the top 10 in payroll" (Cohn 1.) In contrast to this, "the teams with the four worst records the Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos, and Florida Marlins, had the four lowest payrolls" (Demmert 36.) In most cases having a large payroll will ensure you of making the playoffs every year, the exceptions being the Baltimore Orioles and the Los Angeles Dodgers. According to the General Manager of the Florida Marlins Dave Dombrowski, "Payroll does not necessarily equate with winning, but you have to have the dollars so that you can win." (Rascher 31.) The problem here is that there is a lack of turnover from year to year amo!
             ng the teams with the highest revenue and of those teams; they are capturing an increasingly larger share of the market. "But in baseball, no team can be successful unless its competitors also survive and prosper sufficiently so that the difference in the quality of play among teams are not too great" (Rottenberg
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