Monday, May 18, 2015

Why the New York Yankees will never win a World Series again

The New York Yankees will never win a World Series again. They'll buy one, but they will never win one again. The reason behind this is that the Yankees, under Steinbrenner & Co., have been the very definition of reckless spenders. I believe that the foundation of the 1996-2000 Yankees dynasty that won 4 World Series in 5 years was built while George Steinbrenner was banned from baseball for hiring illegal gambler Howie Spira to obtain damaging info about Dave Winfield. General Manager Gene Michael, along with then-manager Buck Showalter, was allowed to build the Yankees from the ground up, without any interference whatsoever from Steinbrenner. This resulted in that aforementioned dynasty consisting of Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Mariano Rivera, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, Ramiro Mendoza, they all were signed & developed by the Yankees. Since then, the Yankees have been reckless when it comes to spending their pinstriped cash (i.e. Alex Rodriguez) and have been trading away young, stud players in their early 20's for lousy, egotistical players in their late 30's! Also, the Yankee executives do not listen to their scouting department, who are, in my opinion, better than most scouting departments around MLB, but they have no say whatsoever in the organization. Due to the countless trades that have destroyed the farm system, the Yankees only have two good young players in the farm system. Those would be outfielder Aaron Judge and second baseman Robby Refsnyder (who was recently promoted to the MLB). As much as I hate the Yankees, I feel bad for the players who sign with them, granted they get paid a ton of $$$, but I can't even fathom the pressure of playing in New York with the press criticizing you every step of the way. I mean, look at Pirates pitcher A.J. Burnett, who, back in 2009, signed a huge contract and he cracked under the pressure of being a Yankee.