re: Are you surprised that the New York Yankees are stuck with 27 World Championships in 2018?

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1. Losing their marquee players like Derek Jeter and ARod to retirement without suitable replacements

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huh? They acquired Didi as soon as Jeter retired and he has been better than Jeter during his final years. At 3B they had a hole but no one was going to put up the numbers ARod in his prime did. Headley was serviceable and Andujar is great.

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2. A lack of talent in the farm system

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true until the last 3-4 years.

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Coaching issues between Joe Torre’s retirement and heir apparent Don Mattingly leaving for the Dodgers

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Mattingly left long before Torre retired and Torre was replaced by a former player in Girardi, I'm not sure Mattingly was better and I love Mattingly

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The Red Sox coming out of long term hibernation, winning their first World Series since 1918 and their first AL pennant since 1986.

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The Sox have had good teams in the past but struggled in the postseason, finally they had better teams for the most part as the Yankees relied on FA over the hill types while the Sox thrived on what helped the Yankees in the 90's, farm system players and slick FA deals/trades.

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A comeback for them probably involves fixing their farm system, developing some good homegrown talent

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new to baseball?

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They have the money to buy players and be able to shrug off mistakes but they still need to have about 2-3 generational talents who are young enough that they can be cornerstones for about 20 years.

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They haven't "bought" players in years, look at the current team Severino, Kahnle, Montgomery, Torres, Bird, Sanchez, Andujar, Romine, Austin, McKinney, Frazier, Torreys, etc are all home grown. Hicks, Drury, Didi are great trades trading a young player who had potential, CC/Chapman are their big FA signings.