Even that much of a time frame is beyond what most beat writers seem to analyze in an article. And they don't always even try to look at things in a team wide focus. One piece might look at how team's dealing with their setup men or with their third basemen. But even just 14 months seems longer than the typical focus for a piece by beat writers. Their stuff is so oriented to the moment, what is the team gonna do today and next week. The kind of thing you're looking for gets done on the internet now by Fangraphs or Baseball Prospectus or one of the other serious baseball fan sites. One of the other factors involved is that if a beat writer wrote a detailed take down of the yankees personnel decisions for the last 14 months that utterly eviscerated them, there's a good chance it affects how much help he gets in writing articles from management and perhaps players, too. "Hi, Brian? It's me, Joel Sherman. Look, I hope you're not still upset over that Bronx Bumblers piece. I was wondering if <CLICK> <dial tone>"