I'd like to introduce the Oakland A's, the Seattle Mariners, the Chicago White Sox, the St. Louis Cardinals, and the SF Giants, none of whom participated in the postseason last year. I know that none of these fall in that free-spending top three, but if you want exact market rankings you could look it up. Expansion has diluted pitching to the point where scores end frequently in double digits. Relief pitching has all but eliminated a pitched complete game. Yes, it's true, sometimes the scores are incredibly high for baseball.
Some games are great and some games stink.
And some people actually find pitchers duels boring. The pitched complete game has become pretty rare, maybe even on a par with grand slams in the distant past. In Search Of the truth about why, despite glaring flaws, baseball remains and flourishes. And always will. Falling asleep listening to a baseball game on the radio is like dreaming in the incredibly vast lap of America.