No. Baseball salaries provide the basis for a shot at the championship, but not even that is a necessary basis for achievement of one; without successful chemistry between players, and appropriate strategies by general managers in the actual games themselves, baseball teams rarely win championships by sheer strength of roster. Consider the following. In the years of New York Yankee dominance of major league baseball at the end of the 20th century, many people rightfully claimed that manager Joe Torre was good at, quite accurately, just what his name implied: managing the Yankees, rather th...
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