I'm with you on all of this, except maybe the last statement.
It's been hitting over defense, but much of our spending budget goes to pitching over hitting.
Every ring we've won has been after acquiring a strong second or third starter by FA (Lackey, Price) or trade (Pedro, Schilling, Beckett, Sale, Eovaldi).
Sure, we paid the Mannys and JDs, too.
I also think, we tried to draft players that looked to be good on defense and offense (Betts, JBJ, Vaz, Beni...)