If they’re good enough to make the playoffs, after a 162 game season, they’re good enough to win the world series.
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Raf, I agree to an extent. The Yanks have been one of the eight best teams in baseball every single year since 1995 and in many of those seasons, they have been baseball’s best team. Where I don’t agree is in the difference between being “goood enough to win” every year and having the expectation that they should win every year.

My comment (the one you responded to) was about how folks believe that because the Yanks have the highest payroll that this should automatically translate to a championship every season. I’ve never understood why people want to so closely link pay to wins since a lot of pay is retrospective to performance (eg the latter half of Bernie Williams’s contract or what A-Rod will look like 5-6 years fro now).

I hope you are getting what I’m saying. I feel like I’m not expressing myself well.

AndrewYF, you missed the point of my post. The level of expectations here are a bit different than in, say, Pittsburgh. Every year, the Yanks are expected to contend for a world series, and every year that they make the playoffs, they’re in a position to win the series.

If they’re good enough to make the playoffs, after a 162 game season, they’re good enough to win the world series.

“Any particular reason why the Yanks shouldn’t win the world series every year? Or at the very least put themselves in a position to win it every year?”

Hell, why should they ever lose a game?

I thought it to be more tongue in cheek
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If so, my bad.

Judging a player by their pay grade is why we’ve seen the spawning of tens of thousands of morons who believe the Yankees should win the World Series every year.
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Any particular reason why the Yanks shouldn’t win the world series every year? Or at the very least put themselves in a position to win it every year?

I would call this a passive aggressive post.
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I thought it to be more tongue in cheek

I meant I agreed with Basura, not Raf, on the reasons to keep coming back and commenting.

“FWIW, A-Rod and Posada were not on fire when they played. Posada had 0 RCAA and, IIRC, A-Rod had 3 RCAA.

So, it’s not like the guys replacing them, so far – and I stress so far, had a monster bar to aim for…”

You think an .800 OPS from Molina, a career backup catcher, isn’t a lot to ask? And an .820 OPS from whatever combination of third basemen? Sheesh. Molina, at least, was always going to be a big step down offensively. Ensberg hasn’t exactly lived up to expectations, but it would have been a miracle, and one of the scrap heap pickups of the year, if he had managed an .820 OPS.

The team lost a good amount of production from their top two offensive players. To try and argue that they wouldn’t have made a difference, and indeed that they won’t make a difference upon their return, by stating win loss records of the team over a course of 20 games is one of the most egregious misuse of statistics you’ve had yet. And you’ve had some doozies.

I agree with Raf, by the way. I realize that I keep coming back because this stuff is entertaining, not because it’s particularly intelligent – much like reading ESPN articles, or reading chats by Joe Morgan. The articles that get the most traffic are usually the ones that are the most egregiously stupid.

because Jeter, Abreu, Giambi, Pettitte and Mussina have not played up to their pay grade.
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Judging a player by their pay grade is why we’ve seen the spawning of tens of thousands of morons who believe the Yankees should win the World Series every year.

I would call this a passive aggressive post.