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athbaseball.com - 18 days ago

There has to be a better way to do this....

— athbaseball.com — The best team in Major League Baseball won the 2009 World Series. I guess that's the way it should be right? Anything can happen in a short series, all your need is a starting pitcher to get hot (like Beckett did with the Marlins) and a hitter to 'do a Matsui' and go bonkers hitting the ball ... (more) There has to be a better way to do this....

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bizofbaseball.com - 17 days ago

Reasons for Not Having a Salary Cap in MLB Are Numerous

— bizofbaseball.com — Should talk of a salary cap be about the Yankees, or a far broader topic? As soon as the Yankees won the World Series, the conversation broke into a chorus. There had been discussions about it before, but once the moniker “27th World Series Champion” was attached to the Bronx ... (more) Reasons for Not Having a Salary Cap in MLB Are Numerous

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nypost.com - 18 days ago

Money may keep Yanks off free-agent market

— nypost.com — THE Yankees found $181 million lying around last offseason, and made a late, victorious bid to corral Mark Teixeira, so never say never when it comes to the Yankees and spending. But the initial read as the winter bazaar opens is that the Yankees ... (more) Money may keep Yanks off free-agent market

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This is mostly a note to self to read later. http://bit.ly/2tFuqT 12 days ago

good stuff re: payroll http://bit.ly/2tFuqT 15 days ago

:: Well said :: http://tinyurl.com/yg2e739 15 days ago

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S.I.: Posnanski: The best team money could buy
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — S.I.: Posnanski: The best team money could buy But the Yankees are a whole different argument. They are their own argument. The Yankees are not a big-market team. They DWARF big-market teams. They are quantitatively different from every other team in baseball and every other team in American sports. They don’t just spend more money than every other team. They spend A LOT more money than every other team. The Boston Red Sox spend $50 million more than the Kansas City Royals? Who cares? The Yankees spend $80 million more than the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees have a pat hand. ...

Yes, the Yankees are filthy rich
ESPN Feed: neyer rob — In the wake of Championship No. 27, Joe Posnanski revisited an old favorite: the Yankees' money . And even though I know I'm not supposed to, I couldn't help getting a little worked up. That's just how good Joe is. And then I came to this: The Conventional Wisdom, I think, is that last winter the Yankees really broke the bank when they signed ...

Friday links
Angels blog — • In the old and tired debate about whether the Yankees can simply buy their success, Joe Posnanski manages to add something new to it : “Baseball happens to be a sport where dominance can be obscured. It doesn’t look like dominance.” But, he writes, it’s dominance all the same, and the implications of that might reframe the discussion. • Wezen-Ball looks at how ...

Non-Yankee Fans' Reactions to the World Series: The Best and the Worst
"It's great to be young and a Yankee." — ... 2.) Um, considering the 2007 Sox had the highest payroll of any WS champion, I don't know if they should really opt to go down this avenue... 3.) Pathetic. 4.) From Rachel Maddow: “It’s cathartic for me. I enjoy fighting with Yankee ...

Link-O-Rama: Pudge, Myers, Money, Matsui
Circling The Bases — ... Brett Myers. * I'm sure that Yankees fans won't like it, but SI.com's Joe Posnanski wrote a good article about the impact of massive payroll disparities across baseball. During the past six years the Yankees have spent, on average, $55 million more than the second-most expensive team. * The weekend swap of Carlos Gomez for J.J. Hardy is mostly good news for the Twins, but does ...