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The fact that you call the 2008 Tampa team a team of civics proves to me that you do not.
The 2008 Devil Rays were a team of scrubs. NO ONE was making money for the Rays. Their entire payroll was about 40 million.
A Honda Civic player is the middle-tier middle-market FREE-AGENT making a medium salary (these days..that would be 6-12 million per year). And I did not claim that no team could win if there was a single civic on the roster...I claimed that the economic theory of 25 civics does not work anywhere near as well as stars and scrubs and that baseball has realized this.