noharleyyet
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....finally bought another title. Hip, hip, hooray.
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Cashman isn't perfect — no GM is — but he certainly made the right choices last offseason when he spent a combined $423.5 million on Sabathia, Burnett and Teixeira.
He also made a shrewd decision the previous winter, when he declined to trade players such as Hughes and center fielder Melky Cabrera for Johan Santana, knowing an even better option — Sabathia — would be available as a free agent the following year.
the Yankees also had the game's highest payroll in 2002, and they did not win the World Series then. They had the game's highest payroll in 2003, and they did not win the World Series then. They had the game's highest payroll in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. They did not win the World Series in any of those years.
This season's iteration of the Yankees was different from all of those. Those clubs were burdened by the presence of vastly overpaid former free agents -- players like Kevin Brown, and Carl Pavano, and Jason Giambi -- who did not, by and large, live up to their considerable contracts. (It's worth noting that the club's payroll in both 2005 and 2008 exceeded this year's).
If one could buy a World Series then how come the Steinbenner's have spent over a Billion in Salaries perhaps since 2000 without a title to their name?
Nemont
I am yankee fan thru and thru.
Nemont, the Yankees are playing by the rules allowed by Major League Baseball, but there is a definitive lack of parity based solely on a clubs ability (or willingness) to increase payroll.
Teams with middling payrolls can indeed compete with high payrolls, but only for a short amount of time as young, inexpensive talent peaks. .
What kind of Socialist are you that would attack our system of Capitalism? If the Yankees make more money and invest more money to make more money to invest more money, then more power to them.
If you want to be a Socialist, go move to France and learn to eat croissants.