Another awesome fact that my 'down-on-our-luck-only-won-6-championships-since-2001' friends from Boston can take solace in, the New York Yankees are really, really old. Growing up an (and grudgingly remaining) Orioles fan, I have one thing in common with douchey Sox fans - I pure straight hate the fucking Yankees.
I lack the crucial baseball insight to provide any hard hitting analysis here, but I can subtract today's date from a man's date of birth, and 'estimate' his age.
I also have a crazy idea that professional athletes tend to decline in production once their age begins to catch up with them (those baseball prospectus folks know this too).
How many of these 'stars' will be above age 34 when next season begins?
Giambi, Jeter, A-Rod, Pudge, Abreu, Damon, Matsui.
If you guessed all, then you would be correct. Their young talent (Melky, Gartner, Cano) combined for all of 24 HRs last year.
In summation, the Yankees missed the playoffs with a +$200,000,000 roster, are not getting any younger, and basically just suck at life. Also Jeter had his worst year ever and Joba is having a rough offseason.
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Unfortunately, Kennedy and Hughes will be factors in the next 2-3 years. Also gotta remember their 20 game winner Wang who was injured after June.
We will be competing with them on Texiera.
They have a few younger kids in the minors to keep an eye on... Austin Jackson and andrew brackman just to name 2.
So they are not totally devoid of young talent.
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