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Originally Posted by bluejays
I strangely don’t hate the Yankees. I don’t like Cole and I don’t like their fans very much but at the start of the season I didn’t like the overspending to a championship by LA. They simply outyankeed the Yanks. So I guess I want a poor showing by their top guys more than anything.
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This Yankees team is a bit different too from the Yankees teams of the 90's and 00's.
They have a huge salary cap but it's not because they went and bought all the biggest free agents.
They actually drafted well and built a good prospect base which allowed them to trade for pieces like Stanton and Soto.
Drafted pieces like Judge, Wells, Volpe, Torres which are key pieces of the battling lineup.
The only true "Free Agents" they brought in buy outbidding other teams are Cole and Rodon.
Dodgers are the team built via free agency/trade: Ohtani, Betts, Freeman, Glasnow, Teoscar Hernandez, Rojas, Yamamoto, Smith, Muncy make up the top 9 in WAR for the Dodgers.
Smith is the only drafted player. Betts, Glasnow, Rojas were traded for. The other 5 guys were all free agents.