How Thoroughly Effed NY Is

jon abbey

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That 'Core Four' silliness didn't surface until around 2009, and Bernie was gone after 2006 (and not very good after 2002). 
 

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Yankees fans: Can't remember their recent, great homegrown players. Always quick to reference 27 championships.
 

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jon abbey said:
Nice piece on this by Joel Sherman once you ignore the hilarious typo in the headline (Core Fore):

http://nypost.com/2014/07/16/core-fores-greatness-is-a-recipe-yankees-cant-keep-chasing/
 
Funny how with the article's title, they still have this paragraph:  "The Yankees developed en masse five of their greatest players, and that group proved durable and capable of handling New York and October."
 
So maybe the "Fore" wasn't a typo . . . .
 
But the real issue is that Rivera was an unherald signing out of Panama who was left unprotected in the expansion draft; and Petitie and Posada apparently were unheralded late round draftees (22nd and 24th rounds of the draft; $80K bonus for Petitie and $30K bonus for Posada).  All of them apparently signed in 1990.
 
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but the odds that any team could sign three HOF or almost-HOF caliber players outside of the first round in one year is pretty slim.  Particularly with the new draft salary cap (and the coming international salary cap), the idea that one team (whether it be Red Sox or MFYs) is going to out-draft/out-sign all the other teams on a regular and consistent basis seems a bit, well, unlikely.
 
Bud always wanted parity.