I'm not going to deny laziness on my part in asking this question rather than looking it up, but is the correlation between wage bill and end of season results as strong in Baseball (or other American sports) as it is in football?
Did they all insist that Abramovich buying Chelsea and blowing the market out of the water with a load of money stolen from the Russian people was actually excellent because it stopped Man U winning the title ad infinitum (conveniently ignoring that Arsnenal had done quite a good job of that in...