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Originally Posted by moon
Do people really still believe this garbage?
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Shot at everyone, nice, classy even.
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Originally Posted by moon
Yep sure sucked developing garbage like Riviera, Williams, Jeter, Pettite, Posada guys who were all key to their wins in the late 90's.
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You see, that there was a difference. The Yankees home developed a core of players were able to keep them thru all of their productive years and as a result won several World Series and found themselves playing in it every year. That was how they built a dynasty. They also forced Don Mattingly to the bench in favor of a more productive Tino Martinez, let John Wetteland walk to ascend Rivera to the closers role. I'd say that the Yankees should be seeking out a more productive everyday short stop to replace Jeter. Similar to how the Red Sox have put Varitek into a lesser on field role.
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Also sucks how they developed Hughes, Cano, Soriano, Jackson all key guys to building the team of the past number of years
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Really out of all those guys Cano is the one they developed and used to win a World series. Soriano they signed as an internation FA, than traded to pick up AROD which was a financially motivated move.
It's not only the Blue Jays, but several other teams who are changing how they operate their teams. They realize that in order to compete against the Yankee's or the Red Sox that they need to develop their own young players, and try to keep these guys around for 8 or so years in hopes of having enough good guys at one time to have a 2-3 year window to compete. Something the Blue Jays simply weren't doing enough of under Ricciardi.