So the big money spending New York Yankees won the World Series the other night. After throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett they finally got back to the World Series and won it. Checking the list of World Series winners I see it had been 8 years since they had won it all. Is all those millions of dollars George Steinbrenner shells out really worth winning a World Series once every eight years.
They did win 3 World Series in a row from 1998- 2000 and have won a total of 7 since George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees for 10 million dollars back in 1973, that’s 7 World Series wins in 30 years. In the 96 years since they’ve been named the New York Yankees they have won a total of 27 World Series titles. I don’t really know when team owners started shelling out big bucks for free agents but I’m sure the majority of the Yankees titles and other teams as well was won without the big payrolls that you see today.
You’ve probably guessed that I’m not a big New York Yankees fan and I’m not. I just think spending hundreds of millions of dollars for top free agents is not good for baseball. It’s not just the Yankees, several teams spend big bucks on players and the majority of the other teams are left fielding good players but have no chance in getting the great ones they would need to make their team better.
Luckily spending big bucks usually doesn’t lead to winning the World Series. The Yankees are a perfect example of that, in 30 years under The Boss’s ownership they’ve won 7 titles. So George is batting .233, when you look at it that way George is very mediocre
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