Any team has a chance to sign CC, if they structure their budget properly. It's certainly a bigger risk for many teams, but there's no reason to act like they couldn't spend the money that way if they chose to. To look at it another way, I would guess that many teams spend the money that CC makes and get's less return than he has usually provided. Of course every team has a realistic chance to sign any player. However most teams that sign a top FA wouldn't be able to field a competitive team if they did without having a very good MiLB system. The top salary teams can sign more of these players, have a poor minor system and continue to win games. If we had signed CC this year, for example, we probably wouldn't be as good. We have several players that wouldn't be on our team right now because we couldn't afford them.