Okay now who wants to post the picture of Seager and Semien celebrating their World Series win with the Rangers last year? Two players who were famously signed before the Rangers competitive window was thought to be open? Hey, the Rangers even spent big money on deGrom the following year, and he ended up needing TJ! Surely the Rangers must have imploded, because they had very little good pitching in their system as well. Well, no because they also had gone out and gotten Nate Eovaldi and Andrew Heaney. And the year before that (even further from their competitive window) they added Jon Gray and Martin Perez. All guys who gave them around 150 serviceable to good innings each last season.
Or how about the Phillies, who under Dave D have also spent a bunch of money on free agents and so far been rewarded with some pretty fun postseason runs, including twice beating the Atlanta Braves who are considered the envy of the league?
I'd consider the Spotrac article to be more useful data re: top 10 payrolls correlating to WS teams. We could throw individual team examples back and forth at each other all day, I don't wish to do that.
I don't think one's criticism of their favorite team needs to go along with a boycott or lack of enjoyment. I'm going to enjoy the shit out watching baseball this season, both as a Sox fan and in general. But I do expect to be frustrated if and when a couple more injuries inevitably occur and the Sox find themself with paper-thin pitching again. And part of my frustration will be that they could have gotten some more major league pitching depth this year to also help for next year. Particularly when some of the changes Breslow & Bailey are making to unlock more stuff from their pitchers may lead to more stress on the arm and more injuries. Which is not in any way a criticism of the pitching program, it's a reality facing a lot of major league teams, especially the ones who are best at maximizing their pitchers' talent.