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Originally Posted by valo403
You want to point me towards another team that can afford to sign the 3 biggest free agents of the off-season?
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Mets, Red Sox, Cubs maybe Tigers and Angels as well if they wanted to.
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Scouting my ass. There's a core of a bunch of slightly above average players and a couple aging stars that came up through the yankee system. The actual difference makers on that team were bought.
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Jeter will finish in the top 5 in MVP voting this year, maybe even top 3 and consistently got on base all play-offs long. Riviera is talked about as a viable Cy Young candidate and was a monster in the play-offs. Petite won more games than CC in the World Series and shut the Phillies down last night. Posada is still one of the top hitting catchers in the league.
If that is slightly better than average then there better be a lot of teams out there looking for slightly better than average guys.
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Originally Posted by Pagal4321
Texeiara, A-Roid, Damon, Matsui, Sabathia, Burnett are all members of that core too, none of them were scouted by the Yankees.
Sure it's a good mix, but signing the top 3 FA this past offseason put them over the edge. Take out one of Sabathia, Burnett and Texeiara and there's no way the Yankees are where they are today.
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Take FA's off of any team and there is no way there are where they are today.
I would like to see the Phillies without Lee, Martinez, Werth, Ibanez etc.
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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Good for the Phillies - the Yankees outspend them by 100 mil and have 5 players on the roster that are paid more than the Phillies top payed player.
MLB is such a joke.
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Where are you getting your numbers, because they are wrong.
I guess though everyone should feel sorry for the Phillies spending the 7th most money and not once having to make a roster decision based on how much they could or couldn't spend.