So, the Yankees have made a big splash this off-season, in terms of retooling their roster, picking up Nick Swisher, Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett.
But, this is not the only recent off-season where the Yankees went out and grabbed a bunch of “name” players from other teams to add to their roster. Just for the fun of it, here are some other off-seasons external talent grabs by the Yankees since 2001-2002:
2001-2002: Added Steve Karsay, Jason Giambi, Rondell White, and David Wells.
2002-2003: Added Hideki Matsui, Todd Zeile, Jon Lieber, and Jose Contreras.
2003-2004: Added Kevin Brown, Tom Gordon, Javier Vazquez, Paul Quantrill, Gary Sheffield, Kenny Lofton and Alex Rodriguez.
2004-2005: Added Carl Pavano, Tony Womack, Jaret Wright, and Randy Johnson.
2005-2006: Added Kyle Farnsworth, Mike Myers, Johnny Damon and Octavio Dotel.
2006-2007: Added Andy Pettitte, Kei Igawa, Luis Vizcaino and Doug Mientkiewicz.
2007-2008: Added LaTroy Hawkins and Morgan Ensberg.
It’s pretty clear that the package brought in this off-season is the best since what came in during the off-season of 2003-2004 in terms of the number of names with star power. Let’s just hope that 2009 doesn’t end the same way for New York as 2004 did…
5 Responses to “Recent Yanks Off-Season Shopping Sprees”
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December 29th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Well, it would be the 1st divisional title since 2006, and it would be the 1st playoff series win since 2004…
…but I see what you mean.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Steve, let’s not forget that 2004 team was a few Mariano Rivera strikes away from getting to (and then easily winning) the World Series. Not exactly a terrible showing.
December 29th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I know people act like Rivera blew 2 games in the 04 ALCS, but if I remember correctly, he actually blew game 4 and then in game 5 came in with the tying run on 3rd and no outs that was inherited from Flash. Is that really a blown save when the runner wasn’t his?
Or am I not remembering it correctly?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Is that really a blown save when the runner wasn’t his?
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According to the save rules, yes.
That was the game that Tony Clark hit the ground rule double (9th inning), causing Sierra to be held up @ 3b.
They had a chance to take the lead the 13th as well, but couldn’t pull it off.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
can we please not talk about 2004