Originally Posted by Atticus

Its not just last year, however that was huge, its ever since the 2001 Diamond Back series. The Yankees of 1996-2000 was a true team with leaders and role players with hard working stars like Jeter putting it all together. Since that series they just keep adding allstars and spending $$. What that gets you is 100 wins in the regular season and serious team holes in the postseason when opposing teams can focus on one team, not 162 games. They keep adding talent, but instead of spending $207 million on allstars they should look into adding roleplayers and pitching. And adding a 10 game winner (pavano) who plays in a pitchers park and 41 year old Randy Johnson from the National League with a bum knee isnt going to cut it. They should have been concentrating more on The A's big 3 than those two.

And the funny thing is, they have depleted there farm system so much over the past 4 years it is all dried up, no prospects to trade away this year during the stretch run to solidify their holes (1st base, second base, erlief pitching, #5 starter.

They'll make the playoffs ($207 million all but guarantees 100 wins and at least a wild card berth) but again fall short.

My two cents