The Yankees have a lot of young players.

In fact, I believe the Yankees are younger than they were last year.

Last year, when they won the World Series and stuff.

What's truly staggering is that Lupica goes into some big explanation of how the Yankees are getting older and brittle, and then he writes this:

"And ask yourself another question: If they are waiting on Crawford, and they brought in Granderson and gave away Austin Jackson (.369 through Wednesday's games, most hits in the American League, on-base percentage of .421) because they are built to win another World Series now, then why not keep Johnny Damon for one more year? Why run off Damon - and do their best to kill his market in the process – by asking him to take a cut from $13 million to $7 million after the year Damon had for them?"

Right on cue, Damon got injured yesterday, by the way.

Probably a minor injury, just like the Yankee injuries.


But I will answer Lupica's question.

The reason the Yankees ran off Damon is:

The

Yankees

Wanted

To

Get

Younger

And

Faster.


You see, you can't write an article explaining how old and brittle the Yankees are and then ... in the middle of that article ... insist that the Yankees should have kept Johnny Damon.