re: Red Sox sweep Yanks

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It's not his fault his GM sucks

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This is what happens when you have no minor league system

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the yankees' minor league system is fine. right around the middle of the pack in baseball.

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and all your players are free agents you signed when they were 30/31 to 7 year deals.

You got 1 World Series out of it 7 yrs ago...now you're seeing the end of most of those over the top deals...and it's not pretty.

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1 world series, 3 league championship series in 4 years, 5 playoff appearances in 7 years. 2013 - teixeira, jeter, and a-rod missed a combined 410 games. 2014 - a-rod missed the entire season. obviously, an older team will experience some injuries, but 2013 was some of the worst injury luck for any team in recent memory. would have likely been a playoff team that year too.

it is what it is. they don't appear to be very good this year, but a lot of those long contracts (tex, a-rod, sabathia) were the biggest reasons for their recent success. and they made the playoffs last year, so it's not like they've just been tanking lately. it will be "not pretty" for one season. that's a pretty damn good trade off.

then they'll likely reload again next year when some big contracts come off the books. not exactly that bad of a cycle.