Jim Alexander: The Dodgers are again the villains of baseball, to no one’s surprise, following this week’s Winter Meetings. But here’s an interesting twist: Among the people complaining are fans of the only team that had a higher payroll than the champs this season, the (less than champion-like) New York Mets. Of course, Mets fans are irate that their own organization – and particularly President of Baseball Operations David Stearns, a small market executive running a big city franchise – didn’t go to the mat (essentially an extra $3 million per year) to keep reliever Edwin Diaz.

And this is an interesting twist to the whole “buying championships” claim, and the counterargument that other teams aren’t trying to win with the ferocity the Dodgers are: According to this chart, posted by Bost

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