Over at FanGraphs, Craig Edwards looked at the 2016 relationship between team payroll and wins, and it's a pretty fascinating study. It's one he's looked at in the past, too, and he also does good work by using an estimate for financial clout beyond just seasonal payroll - franchise value - to look at how money muscles play a part in teams being better than the penny poor. I do wonder, however, how much the relative preponderance of teams overtly "tanking" in this particular season skewed the overall results, since it certainly seems that was much more pronounced in 2016 than in years before.
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