Question:Why do people say the the Yankees buy championships but during the seasons that they won, they won?

Question

with average players...think about it the have like little to no SUPERSTARS in there teams

Joe Girardi
Derek Jeter (soon to be superstar but dont act like it)
Jorge Posada
Bernie Williams
Luis Sojo
Mariano Rivera (soon to be)
David Cone
Wade Boggs (was a superstar)
Jim Leyritz
Tino Martinez
Jeff Nelson
Paul O'Neil
John Wetterland
Scott Brosius
Chili Davis
Orlando Hernandez
Ricky Ledee
Shane Spencer
Chuck Knoblauch
Andy Pettite
David Wells
Roger Clemens(superstar)
and many others i cant think of them but give me good reasons

Answer 1

Buying a championship is a myth. Only a couple teams have done it in history. Even the Yanks in 77 & 78 had a core of home grown players or players that came over in trades. Think about it.
Guidry, Dent, Chamblis, Randolf, Nettles, Lyle, Munson, Rivers, Pinella, the relief core except for Gossage and most of the revolving door of starters were trades or from the Yankee farm system.

The Yankees dynasty epitimized and was the blueprint for many other teams to build WS teams in the 00s. It was small ball team work. The few big name sluggers that were signed turned into disasters or very ho hum players. Chili Davis was not a major contributer. Strawberry at best was a distraction, Knablauch was troubled his entire stay with the Yanks. El Duke could only pitch in the post season. Fielder never did much as a Yank.

Guys like Wetteland, now he was important. But also not a free agent.

Most of the key team came from the farm system or trades. Rivera, Pettite, O'Niel, Jeter, Possada, Martinez and Williams. The Yanks added Cone who helped fuel the team. From there they filled in holes with free agents like Boggs and Wells. Little guys came up big every year. Shane Spencer one year came up big for the Yanks. Chad Curtis on multiple years came up big for the Yanks. Great play to fill in for injuries, broke slumps, carried the team when it was at it's lowest. Then went back to riding the bench without a complaint. Sojo, Leyritz, Brosus, Raines are some others that came off the bench and provided crucial performances.

Mendoza practically created his own role. His ability to be both mop up and short relief and take important starts was amazing. In some years Mendoza was the most important pitcher on the Yank's staff. It was like have three effective pitchers all rolled into one. Mendoza another Yankees farm prospect that came up big for the Yanks.

The Angels were one of many teams that created pretty much a duplicate of the Yankee's success and found their way into the WS.

On the flip side look at the 80s Yankees, The O's much of the 90s, the Diamondback's first attempts, the Rockies, the Cubs the Mets year after year. Teams that spent big and came up empty or worse. Sometimes sub .500. Then you have teams like the Twins, Royals, Angels who have one of the lower payrolls in Baseball at the time winning a world series.

Winning takes pitching, defense, timely hitting or a solid offense and most of all a team spirit. So many teams sabatage themselves by collecting flashy stats that do not produce wins. Without the utley kind of player a team like the Phillies can have all the Burrels and Howards they want but they are not going to win many games. The Braves made it to the series or league championship year after year after year while often not having more than a couple star hitters on their entire roster. Some years Chipper Jones WAS the Braves entire offense. They won with defense, pitching and team spirit.

So it is with great amusement I watch the Mets stock up on junk players. They have pulled a Stienbrenner and the mess that comes of it next year will be a zoo like the 70s and 80s Yankees were. The Redsox are another team that has mostly met with frustration trying to buy a world series. Year after year one of the top five payrolls. Year after year disapointment. When they did finally win a series the core team was home grown sox , pickups and trades not free agents.

So buying a WS is almost impossible. You have have to have the core team to start with. One that's played together for a time, who give incoming players a foundation to fit into. You have to choose team players mostly not flashy selfish players. Teams can win despite the flashy players but very talented teams have been sunk by such players too.

To keep your core players you have to open up the pocketbook. The Astros have been wizards at keeping players for below market salaries. Biggio and Bagwell gave up tens of millions of dollars over their careers to stay Astros. Pettite and Clemens both signed well below market value to come aboard. Alou did as well when the Astros brought him aboard and Berkman could have gotten very rich. Instead he settled for just really rich and staying an Astro. The moral is don't wait until players demand money. Pay them for achievements. Believe it or not the Yankees actually took Mariano Rivera to arbitration one year. That was just petty. Rivera may have become disgruntled and left the Yankees over the slight. Instead he waited and got his contract, but I bet the Yankees wound up paying for that arbitration and paying dearly.

When you have a crop of talented youngsters keep them together. The Royals had the foundation of a really good team. Guys like Damon and Beltran anchoring the outfield. Yet the Royals spent big on nobodies and let their stars walk away. The home grown guy they did invest in got hurt. Murphey's law eh.

Answer 2

Out of the last 6 years, how many Yankee farm guys really got a chance?

Wang and Cano..

They still wont let Melkey play full time and traded the rest away.

They buy players, trade for players the yankees do not develop that many players anymore - they expect others to do that for them

This is what is meant by buying world championships - you pay for the high priced FA stars rather than developing stars.

Also not that those guys (wang and melkey etc etc) did not come through the draft, they went through the international one, where they basically went to the highest bidder.. i wonder who that was..

Answer 3

None of your info dispute the certainty that the Yankees bought the three maximum suitable unfastened agent gamers final iciness and that modify into what positioned them over the ideal. That different communities spend plenty (yet nonetheless under the Yankees) doen't exchange the certainty. i'm a pink Sox fan and in case you inquire from me if their championships have been bought, i could ought to declare yeah, they in many circumstances have the 2nd maximum payroll in the activity, besides the undeniable fact that it could make a huge distinction. Tex in Boston quite of the Bronx could have swung the pendulum any different way.

Answer 4

They are considered to 'buy' championships because their payroll is usually, if not all the time, the highest in baseball. The last few years it has been over the $200 million mark. And they trade away their prospects for guys who are past they're prime, i.e. Randy Johnson.

Answer 5

wrong! be serious. Cone was always one of the best pitchers in baseball, had already won a chapionship in KC and threw a perfect game. Tino was one of the best 1st baseman in baseball when with the mariners, O'neil was an excellent rightfielder and won a championship with the reds, john wetteland was one of the best releivers with texas, scott brosius was a gold glove 3rd baseman with the A's, knoblauch was an allstar with the twins, wells was always a good pitcher, clemens was a hall o famer, chili davis was an all star too, boggs was a hall of famer, el duque was the best pitcher in Cuba, without those guys they wouldnt have won the series, so face it , they bought it, get your facts straight before you talk to someone like me, i know everything about this game.

Answer 6

They don't really 'buy them'.. They just buy every player they want to try to win a championship. Apparently it doesn't work, as I hope Cashman is starting to realize. Putting the biggest names in baseball in the same lineup is not the way to win.

Answer 7

There is no way to buy a Championship.
You may obtain the very best players available but you still have to play the games. As we have seen from 2000, no matter who you get on the Yankees they still have to play the games.

Answer 8

Yeah i dont get why they say how the Yankees buy championships.

Answer 9

they pay players more then any other team. in 2005 they had a higher payroll in their starting pitching rotation then the drays organization combined

Answer 10

The Yankees don't buy championships. They work hard to win.