MLB Payroll Dilemma: The Davids Continue to Slay the Goliaths

If Major League Baseball has shown us anything, winning the World Series is not contingent upon spending large sums of money.

Since 2001, only three clubs that have hoisted the Commissioner's Trophy boasted team payrolls within the top five of MLB. According to USA Today, the payrolls of eight of the other nine champions during that span averaged a payroll ranking of nearly 10th overall in MLB. The Florida Marlins were an outlier in that their payroll ranked 25th in 2003 when they won the World Series.

Leading up to Opening Day 2013, two clubs (Los Angeles Dodgers and
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