There are limits to what teams can pay. Even the Yankees. Considering what the Yankees are paying certain players (Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Gerrit Cole), another contract of comparable size would leave the team hard pressed to fill out the roster with complementary players.
An example of this reality is when Kevin Durant took a pay cut to sign with the Golden State Warriors of the NBA. Durant wanted a championship ring more than the money.
Durant got his ring, actually two, and currently has one of the most lucrative contracts in the league. While he remains a freak of a player, his current team, the Phoenix Suns, got tossed out, ignominiously, in the first round of the playoffs last year.
Another aspect of “Moneyball” (or, bottom line management of pro teams) is combining (A) big contracts with select players, with (B) minimum contracts with players without the number of years of experience needed to go free agent, and with (C) mid-size contracts for complementary players.
MLB is first and foremost a league for physical freaks of nature. That being: itchers.
“Position players”, with notable exceptions, are consigned to play bit parts in the familiar MLB drama.
Lol...”P”itchers!
Not belly itchers.