This was a very interesting, well written article. I was especially intrigued about the spending piece,
“From 1999-2013, the Yankees ranked No. 1 in payroll for 15 consecutive years, per The Baseball Cube. Usually, it was by a laughable margin. Their 2005 payroll of $208M wasn't far off from equaling the combined total of the second-most (Boston Red Sox at $123.5M) and third-most (New York Mets at $101.3M) aggressive spenders.
George Steinbrenner repeatedly laughed in the face of the competitive balance (luxury) tax.
Since 2013, however, the Yankees have assembled the largest payroll just once in 12 years, doing so in 2020. That one-off year came two seasons after they ranked seventh in spending in 2018, behind even the Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Angels. Seventh!”
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No shit
STFU with this narrative. He’s the best player in our generation. Just enjoy it instead of waking up to find reasons to be butt hurt.,
It has less to do with the actual total payroll and more about how they spend it
Stupid argument through and through. It’s easy to say any team that doesn’t win with generational talent “wasted” a players career. Using more descriptive language in the article? Like, travesty or frustrating or ridiculous even. The hyperbole is like drinking salt water. Yeah, it’s water, but it’s also stupid.
So, who wasted Griffeys career? Through Mariners, the Reds, his body? The white Sox?
Sorry. Well written, my ass.
If he had a good WS last year he would’ve had a ring
It has more to do with the profitability of sports franchises and other teams being bought by investment groups and/or super wealthy owners. Yankees are still spending, but now some other teams are as well
If he didn’t drop an easy fly ball and strike out with the bases loaded and a chance to change the whole tenner of the series maybe this year or last year would’ve been different. Not to mention the 17 billion times he struck out in various other playoff series. He deserves a lot of blame too. Sorry. I love him, but let’s be honest about his playoff failures.
Aaron Judge is wasting Aaron Judge’s career. Guy is only clutch when it doesn’t count, I don’t care if he hit 20 singles this post season he’ll never get a ring and he should have never been made captain. Captains lead their team to championships.
Is this rage bait? The team is ultra competitive year in and year out. Baseball is more competitive than ever, this is no doubt a good thing for the sport. Judge seems happy, is rich, Yankees still invest in the team. Do some research into eras where Yankees were ultra dominant, baseball was extremely uneven, even/especially late 90s and the early 2000s. Now the Dodgers are obviously doing some right and better that we have to learn from, and I do hope we take the crown back of “team that is ruining baseball” back, but saying “wasted” is kind of insulting to a team that is providing quality ball year in and year out – don’t take it for granted because it can absolutely get much worse
Lifetime contract man will never go all in because he has to worry about 10 years from now
Yes Cashman and Boone are cooked but this article is moronic.
They’re in the mix every season. That’s all you can ask. I’m no fan of Boone (how could you be at this point, really) and the franchise could benefit from moving on from Cashman and letting someone else try that role, but there are more big spending owners now. The game is more competitive. The Yankees haven’t gotten “worse”, the rest of the league just stepped things up.
We are aware
Man is slowly becoming the Dan Marino of the MLB
Hot take central
The Yankees were George’s hobby-they are Hal’s business
Don Judgeingly
Lucky me. As a Yankees fan and Buffalo Bills fan I get to watch two once in a lifetime talents get wasted by a dogshit front office and coaching.
Trade him for Juan Soto straight up
It’s a team sport, it ain’t just about Aaron Judge (and he’d be the first to say this).
Its not the money. I mean, yes, compared to their revenue the Yankees should be spending more. But when teams with significantly lower payroll and revenue are beating you, i.e. the 2020 Rays, thats means that its not necessarily about the money. This team has and has had a lot of talent over the past decade, but I firmly belive that they are coaching and developing these players incorrectly. It seems as if the goal is to not make them well-rounded players, but to focus on launch angle and exit velocity. The answer should not be to throw more money at a system thats broken. The system itself needs to be revamped if they want to return to the glory days of WS or bust.
He deserves way better same for don mattingly
By making the playoffs all but one season? By trading for Juan Soto then quickly signing top free agents in other areas once Soto left?
What more do you want? Stupid article but the doomers will latch right on.
Its sad
Judge is the new Mike Trout
Judge = Mattingly
Yeah they were the top spenders and won 2 WS and lost two. So I would say in a 14 year span that is all that great for money spent. Heck the Giants and Rangers did arguable better during that time with a much smaller payroll. So stop acting like if we just spent a little more it would be better. The roster sucks how it’s built, period. But it’s the off season so we get 10 posts a day on how we should trade for or buy the best players in the league and that will solve all our problems. I really need to leave this sub in the off season it’s terrible.