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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Also remember that Kauffman knowingly and intentionally overspent. It wasn't that he couldn't have made money, it's that he didn't on purpose. He knew full well the Royals didn't have the financial wherewithal of the power players in the league at the time but he didn't care.
Didn't the Royals have the highest payroll in the league for a period? My memory is that he took serious heat in the early 90s from owners groups for driving salary inflation.
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Kauffman splurged in the late 80s and early 90s because he was flush with cash from the sale of Marion Labs to Dow. He even said that. They spent cash in the 80s from the influx of his other partner.