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New York Yankees (27x World Series Champions)

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April Lineup
LF.....Johnny Damon
SS.....Derek Jeter
1B.....Mark Teixeira
3B.....Alex Rodriguez
DH.....Hideki Matsui
RF.....Xavier Nady
C......Jorge Posada
2B.....Robinson Cano
CF.....Melky Cabrera
Bench? -- Nick Swisher

October Lineup
At home on couch.....Johnny Damon
At home on couch.....Derek Jeter
At home on couch.....Mark Teixeira
At home on couch.....Alex Rodriguez
At home on couch.....Hideki Matsui
At home on couch.....Xavier Nady
At home on couch......Jorge Posada
At home on couch.....Robinson Cano
At home on couch.....Melky Cabrera
At home on couch? -- Nick Swisher
 
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I like the fact that the Yankees are trying to get some arms. Burnett can be dominant when he's on, but his consistency is not what I'd call one of his skills. CC is a good enough arm as well, though playing in NYC is a whole lot different than Cleveland and Milwaukee. Not sure if he'll handle the pressure (see Javier Vasquez, Jeff Weaver).

As for bats.....

Well, this lineup is certainly built to get a team to the playoffs. I'm not a huge Tex fan, and 180 million is way too much money for him, but I would foresee the same problem as the past several years.... built to get to the playoffs, not built to win them. Cliche as it is - pitching wins championships. New York would do well to go grab a pitching coach who can develop an arm rather than manage egos.
 
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Scorned skipper Joe Torre is blasting the Yankees - calling many of his former players prima donnas, confessing he stopped trusting the powers that be years before he left the team and charging that general manager Brian Cashman betrayed him.


In an explosive new book called "The Yankee Years," Torre gets most personal in his attacks against Alex Rodriguez, who he says was called "A-Fraud" by his teammates after he developed a "Single White Female"-like obsession with team captain Derek Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him.
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JOE TORRE RIPS ALEX RODRIGUEZ & GEORGE STEINBRENNER IN BOOK - New York Post



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More money
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by Ronald Blum

NEW YORK (AP) -- Andy Pettitte's only thought was to stay with the New York Yankees. He had no interest in returning to his hometown Houston Astros.

Still, the 36-year-old left-hander was bothered when the Yankees wanted to cut his salary from $16 million to $10 million.

"Heck, the bottom line is I'm a man, and I guess it does take a shot at your pride a little bit," he said. "But when you put all that aside, I wanted to play for the New York Yankees and, you know, that was the bottom line. I wanted to be there. I wanted to play in that new stadium."

After months of stalled negotiations, Pettitte and the Yankees agreed Monday to a $5.5 million, one-year contract. While the guaranteed money is less than half New York's original $10 million offer, he can make an additional $6.5 million in bonuses: $4.5 million based on innings and $2 million based on days on the active roster.
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NEW YORK (AP)?Mark Teixeira(notes) sparked the Yankees with a takeout slide at second base after being hit with pitches twice, Hideki Matsui(notes) and Jorge Posada(notes) hit three-run homers and New York beat the Texas Rangers 12-3 Tuesday night to take over best record in the American League.
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Once again, the keen Yankee management has found talent where no one else could see it and pieced together a winning team. Sure, the base salaries for this season of Teixeira, Sabathia, Jeter and Rodriguez add up to more than the entire payroll of half the teams in the league, but it isn't money that is building a winner (or enabling them to keep their home grown guys). It's shrewd talent evaluation. No one else saw the hidden abilities of those guys, not to mention AJ Burnett. Only the Yankees knew, and that supreme baseball knowledge is paying dividends on the field.

Speaking of dividends, it's a damn good thing they got over $500 million from taxpayers to finance their new billion dollar stadium otherwise they'd probably be playing in an abandoned lot somewhere. I just hope they can afford to pay that $26 million luxury tax, approximately 3% of the total of four contracts (Sabathia, Teixeira, Jeter, ARod).

I think I'll do my part by looking into buying some $2600 tickets when the Royals come to town.
 
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